Legal aid/court

[seriousone]

Hi im sorry if this is a long post, ive received a court summons as as a suspect, basically a colleague of mine was reported anonymously too nspcc via internet and the police traced it back to my internet ip adress(i haven't seen evidence) and I denied it as I knew nothing about it, I believe someone has done this while logged onto my Wi-Fi(no who it is but this isn't for her) so I got court summons due too evidence, am filling out the paperwork now for legal aid but what are the chance I get this as I have mortgage and work( though im suspended at mo on pay but it basic pay no enhancement) I have another 5k in savings if I needed too pay, am terrified and cling to one bit of hope that it gets dropped, any help appreciated even privately x

You need to be a lot clearer. You don’t get a court summons as a suspect. Have you been charged with an offence? Are you being summoned as a witness? Where do you live?

If in England and Wales there are financial eligibility criteria for legal aid that you can read about here www.gov.uk/guidance/criminal-legal-aid-means-testing

Hi collaborarte
Im in uk, I received a summons too court too hear the charges as I denied them ,I haven't been charged with an offence I was interviewed then denied the charges so ive been issued a summons to go to court to hear the evidence and I will deny it as I on I nothing about it, the form ive been sent is a form saying they want to prosecute so I have to attend court

If the form says you are being prosecuted you have clearly been charged with an offence. That is the way the process works. However, I am puzzled as to the nature of the offence. Reporting someone to the NSPCC is not an offence. What is the charge? What are you being prosecuted for?

You have been summonsed to court which is the equivalent of being charged with an offence.

What offence?

It isn't an offence to report people to nspcc... so something else is going on here.
If you want help/support you need to lay out properly what is happening to you.

I received a postal requstion to attend court ,I wasn't charged with anything by the police so I don't know why I received this, the charges laid out are reporting someone ten times over a year, which the police say is harassment , I HONESTLY KNOW nothing else because reporting someone is not harassment you are correct

Repeatedly (10/year) alerting the NSPCC to false claims of child neglect or abuse, by the same individual, could be deemed to be harassment of that individual.

If you know who this was, using your wifi to make the reports, why didn't you provide their details to the Police when you were questioned?

When I was questioned the police asked me if anyone had used my internet or if I knew anyone that would do this, who knew the individual I did say who I thought it was but they said I had to prove that they had used my wifi on those set dates of which I can't

You have clearly been charged with harassment. Assuming you are in England or Wales the police should have given you a charge sheet setting out details of the alleged crime.

As EggysMom says, repeatedly making false claims could be harassment. You need proper legal advice. However, as this is a criminal charge it will be up to the prosecution to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. Whatever the police said, you don't have to prove that this other person used your wifi on the dates in question. You just have to show that there is a reasonable probability that they could have used your wifi to make the false claims. I hope you have now taken steps to secure your wifi so that other people cannot make use of it.

Thanks for the advice everyone, @phr47bridge when I was interviewed under caution I was only given a piece of paper stating I had been interviewed and was told that I would be summoned too court on the postal requistion it states what the charges are and its magistrate hearing ,which I thought was to hear the charges but maybe it isn't, will talk to solve mon as I only received this paperwork fri evening

Bumping for any lurkers

You need to make an appointment to see a criminal law solicitor for advice. Maybe they can get to the bottom of what you've been charged with. Don't mess about on here.

Ive contacted one will contact them again Tom