Downs Syndrome man arrested Worlds gone mad surely???

[lottiejenkins]

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3761056.ece
I heard about this story on Jeremy Vine this lunchtime.. i have posted in SN too......
Why arent the police out looking for "real criminals"??

Good grief.
He might be 18 but has a mental age of 5.
Absolutely mad.

it's ridiculous that the police/cps took the time and money to investigate this so called hate crime - like it says in the paper it should have been handled internally at the college.

I'm surprised the police have nothing better to do in the shitheap which is my hometown

disgusted of motherwell.

Has the girl been arrested for wasting police time?

It is crazy. I would have thought that they would have a procedure anyway for someone not mentally old enough to be responsible - surely that must come up a lot.

Mind you there have been actual 5 year olds accused of racism. That's how far it's gone. A good intention (stopping racism) pushed beyond common sense and into obsession.

Someone made a worrying comment on that article. That the girl was not considered for prosecution. If they were just blindly following the letter of the law surely she should have been?.

Just nuts

I have forwarded the article to India Knight im sure as it is in The Times she has seen it but i wanted to make sure she has.........

Read about this in the Times today. Have the police got nothing better to do. If this had made it to court and he was found guilty what suitable punishment would there have been?

I know I will now sound like a Daily Mail reader - but this really is PC gone mad.

How appalling.

Bloody hell!

Oh FFS. Appalling that this happened in the first place but then that the procurator fiscal's office took more than ten seconds to throw it out. And I just don't believe this bollocks about 'we kept the family informed throughout'. Yeah, right.

the world has gone mad.
at articles title shows how far we still have to go.

Utterly dreadful

Unbelieveable. Absolutely bonkers. What really insenses me in this article is the way the authorities (courts and police) are hiding behind this opaque official language to justify their actions. What ever happened to common sense fgs?

can i say PC gone maaaaaaaad!!

i hope the police etc are embarassed and ashamed of this

bloody ridicolous

to be fair though, it doesn't say who raised issue with police and may well have been the girl with special needs. Are you saying police shouldn't investigate allegations made by someone with special needs? Sounds like they made it pretty clear that it wouldn't proceed as was evident there was nothing to it, but presumably they have a duty to investigate.

It seems the girl's family wouldn't let it drop. Which suggests a serious lack of perspective, at best. I'd say they are horrible people to put a boy with the understanding of a 5yo through this.

It wasn't clear it wouldn't proceed. The police arrested the poor boy and the procurator fiscal spent 7.5 months looking at the case. The poor boy have spent more than half a year with the threat of prosecution hanging over their heads. According to the Times, which broke the story, it was the mother who blocked it by refusing to allow SWs to become involved - very sensible woman.

walks in, has a look, walks away. Not touching it today.

I have been living in Scotland and there have been lots of ads on the radio about racial abuse in the playground. Obviously it is reprehensible, but the tone of the adverts seems to suggest that hateful behaviour is wrong because it is racist not because it is inherently nasty.

I am not British and find it quite weird that if someone abuses me it might be taken more seriously than if they abuse someone who is British. Surely abuse in any form is hateful and wrong?

This proscecution was disgraceful and must have put the boy's family through so much unnecessary worry.

oh fgs

maybe dd will get arrested soon for sexual assault (aka boob grabbing)

quite right, upwind.