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Breastfeeding in Primark mother charged with perverting the course of justice.

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Alfieisnoisy · 28/07/2015 20:18

I seem to recall this being discussed at the time she made the allegations.

She has now been charged according to this report from the Huffington Post.

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/primark-breastfeeding-row-mother-charged-with-perverting-the-course-of-justice/ar-AAdAj75?ocid=SNYDHP

Don't know her back story but she obviously has some issues to make such an allegation and will hopefully get the help she needs.

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AgentProvocateur · 28/07/2015 22:07

breast feeding. Why would autocorrect even suggest geese feeding? Bizarre Hmm

GraysAnalogy · 28/07/2015 22:08

geese feeding hahahha

ghostspirit · 28/07/2015 22:09

i dont get why they put things in the news and then say we cant talk about it...dont tell us then!

AlisonBlunderland · 28/07/2015 22:18

To be fair, there is no legal protection for women wanting to geese feed in public

DonkeyOaty · 28/07/2015 22:21

Hahaha at geese feeding. No laws on that I guess.

GraysAnalogy · 28/07/2015 22:23

The only protection I'd need whilst feeding geese in public is a face shield because CHRIST they can get violent those things

Lolimax · 28/07/2015 22:26

I'm now chuckling to myself in bed! Geese feeding! And I've woken the dogs up with my laughter. Thank you I needed that :)

FundamentalistQuaker · 28/07/2015 22:36

You can talk about it. But if you post anything that creates "a substantial risk of serious prejudice" to the trial, you risk facing proceedings for contempt of court. And the law has now been changed to allow fines to reflect the amount of public money thrown away if a trial has to be abandoned. Which would be loads.

Realistically that risk will be created most easily if you post something about this woman not previously in the public domain that would lead people to think she must be innocent/guilty. The classic example is revealing someone's previous criminal record (not saying she's got one, that's just an example), or stuff the jury might not be told for whatever reason. A good example of that is the Mirror article during the trial of footballers Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate for assault, accusing them of a racist motive (the assault victim was Asian) when the trial judge had said there wasn't enough evidence to back that up and it was not to be put to the jury. The Mirror got fined rather a lot of money.

Also, although every individual feels they have a right to post their opinions, if 100,000 people are all shouting someone's guilt or innocence from the rooftops (ok, their keyboards) it does create an atmosphere that makes a fair trial more difficult. Look at that Colin Stagg bloke. The whole country decided he had obviously killed Rachel Nickel when in fact, no he hadn't. Colin Jeffries etc. He wasn't on trial, of course, but the dynamic is the same.

wooldonor · 29/07/2015 02:54

The police statement above refers to sharing prejudicial information. It would be useful to know if that includes passing opinions on information already widely reported, I'd have thought that would be impossible to enforce.

If though for example someone who was a witness to what happened posted about it I can see why the police wouldn't want that to happen.

hackmum · 29/07/2015 08:32

" It would be useful to know if that includes passing opinions on information already widely reported."

Yes, it does. Just don't talk about it at all is the best option. Glitteryarse said upthread that surely this could apply to any case being taken to court, and in fact, it does. It's just that the police don't always mention it in statements.

What FundamentalistQuaker says is absolutely right. Bear in mind that publishing something prejudicial on this site could result in Mumsnet being fined and it could also result in the trial being abandoned.

Perhaps worth remembering too that in this country we have a legal presumption of innocence, so for that reason alone you should hold back your opinions until the case has come to court.

prh47bridge · 29/07/2015 11:44

I thought it was for jury members not to go looking for info

Right now there is no jury. You could be a member of that jury for all you know. That is why no-one should post anything that could prejudice the trial.

this could apply to any case being taken to court

Just for clarity, it could apply to any criminal case being taken to court. You can discuss civil cases to your heart's content.

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