Announcement re deletion of Wig and Robe/Judge Flounce threads

[carrie (mumsnet)]

Dear mumsnetters,

We are now able to shed a bit more light as to what actually occurred re the Wig and Robe/Judge Flounce episode. We are pretty sure (having received a confession of as much) that, as some of you suspected, W&R/JF was a non-lawyer masquerading as a QC. Given this knowledge we have deleted the relevant postings and banned the user from the site.

If nothing else the whole business is a salutary reminder that you can never be completely sure that folks are who they say they are and neither should you necessarily completely trust the advice, especially "professional" advice, posted on mumsnet.

As a result of some concerns raised by you we are looking into making parts of the site, the swaps and weight loss clubs for example, something that operates via mumsnet HQ so that people's addresses are not being circulated. If anyone has any other suggestions then please [email protected] or post them here and we promise to consider them.

We?d also remind folks that when organising meet ups you should take the same precautions you would when meeting anyone from the net - make sure you meet in a public place and that others know where you are going.

Having said all that, it would be a shame if this relatively rare occurrence of someone pretending to be someone they are not changed the warm, supportive, welcoming and caring atmosphere on mumsnet - and we're confident that you won't let it!

Thanks for all the supportive and helpful emails we've received from so many of you.

Carrie, Rachel and Justine

I am msn ing
have you a hotmail account?

opf course i would talk to you tamum or confuse you as I seem to confuse evryone else

I do indeed. It contains the whole of my names, maiden and married so I will lose any last shred of anonymity but I guess that doesn't matter since I will be talking to my friends

whats was the dna thing?

I am suppose to email crunchie a summary of the whole thing tonight
go s how do I start? I was nt party to all t he "money shot" stuff

maybe he got his own sperm on his own jumper cod

ks

ks and tamum, I have sent you both msn thingies. ks feel free to ignore it (unless you feel like upsetting coddy )

ks dont answer her
she is a man

janh then you can add me in?

Oh no! Will delete you instead, aha!

The DNA thing was when poor crystaltips had been groped by a family friend who was a lawyer and JF said she shouldn't wash her jumper because his DNA would be on it and they could extract it and use it to convict him (presumably she was under the impression that it would have been shaped like a handprint over the offending area). She, JF, would then make sure that he never worked again.

ho ho
( she wonders?!!)

If there hadn't been 'An Apology' thread or a W&F/JF scandal there would never have been a 'Please don't post on THIS thread any more' thread and mumsnet would have been a much sadder place

twig, everyone lets startthe jf story for crunchie
ok each person deos a line

jf fisrt came to our attention? 6 months ago?

Oh good point twiglett.

Thanks Janh! How do I know when I've got it?

was it?

(shh! you get an email) nayway back t o the story

help please

It wasn't 6 months, coddy, it was barely a month!

If I was going to wind people up, there is no way I would lead them to 'the real me' - I'd lead them to some concoction. I honestly don't think that trying to unravel 'Jane' and 'Steve' is going to lead anywhere conclusive.
The photo was just anyone's, although a real SS apparantly exists on some about farnsfield, it wouldn't take long to find a 'Jane' somewhere in Cardiff, would it?
And as for the legal 9sic) advice, many is the time that 'Jane' would be just nipping into a meeting, but would return later with a wodge of (no doubt cut and [asted) legal stuff from the lawbooks.

Some of us read fiction for a job, and I am really sad to say that for me none of the bereavement thread rang true. But I have nothing but repsect for the people who read it less cynically.

tbh, I think it is healthier if we get it into our consciousness that there may probably be no link to the truth at all in any clues that have been apparantly planted.

And I hate to say this, but I am anxious that people who may have been CAT'd and responded or have had e mail exchange re any packages or legal forms might want to consider changing their e mail addresses.

W&R debuted end of Nov I think

no really only a minth
no it was all of movember and dec

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