24 hours in police custody.

[Toddlerteaplease]

As one officer said, "it's a juicy one"

My thoughts exactly. 'Lost baby' are they for real. How insensitive. Bloody idiots.

I thought exactly the same as you. Glad someone else noticed this.

This reminds me of when I was a delivery driver aged 17. First job ever. Came to a huge roundabout, nothing coming at all, you could see from about 1/4 mile away but the guy in front of me slams his brakes on then checks to look. I go into the back of him, fortunately it was only low speed. So i get out to see if he's ok as he's an old guy and I was worried and he sped off. So I got his registration number and went to the police station to report the accident as I wanted the police to check on him. How naive was I? They tried to do me for careless driving. Yes it was my fault I went into the back of him but he just stopped dead without warning. So they cautioned me for careless driving, I was so upset.

A week later they rang me to say the old fella was okay, but he'd got no tax, insurance or driving licence which is why he'd done a runner and because of that he let me off.

Lost some sympathy there I think

That's awful

I'd never admit to anything now, not that I would undertake any criminal activity anyway, I have a clean record in that dept and over 30 years no claims now. But it was a very frightening experience.

@Seaweedandsalt

That doesn't make sense. He couldn't claim so why would he do that on purpose?

You still went into the back of him.

If you crash into someone who suddenly brakes, then by definition you are too close &/or too fast, therefore not driving with due care as you have not left enough distance or time to stop.

Even in a queue of traffic waiting at a junction, it is for each driver to keep a reasonable distance from the car in front. How many of us do that?

I learned the hard way when I was in a traffic queue & shunted into the car ahead of me - whiplash & protracted insurance claims. Since then, in a traffic queue I leave a good car length between me & the next car, just as my driving instructor had told me…

I watched this last night. Such a clever well-made show.

I honestly am shocked that being caught on camera about to burgle, driving off on a stolen motorbike, being caught a month later with burglary equipment in an untaxed uninsured car - that this criminal activity (leave alone their long history of offending) does not carry a custodial sentence!

Adam made a very poor decision that night but he wasn't the only one who should have gone to prison.

Someone broke into our car outside our front door one night. DH ran out of the house after them. I have no idea what he would have done had he caught them. I can see why Adam did this. It wasn’t right, but understandable. I can’t believe that those two lads got off Scot free. What is the point in being a decent person when you can clearly just go out and steal everything you want? Why bother going to work?

None of us are inclined to favour the would-be burglars, but how quickly would any of us have favoured or donated to Adam White had he struck & injured/killed a pedestrian or other motorists when he lost control of his car?

Still the same man driving the same car in the same way for the same reason - yet had an uninvolved person been hurt or killed, would he be feted in the same way?

Agree with this. It was only really mentioned once in passing near the beginning, but what if he'd killed someone else with his reckless behaviour. You cannot take the law into your own hands. He was angry when he got into his car and drove at high speed through a village. Could have killed anyone.

Looking at the long line of convictions of the two men though...somethings clearly not working and it results in this sort of thing. Not an excuse though.

I think it’s the juxtaposition of the two sentences that is so frustrating.
While Adam was in the wrong and could have hurt someone he was doing what a lot of people would have done, or felt like doing, similar.
The other two were career criminals out for no other purpose than to rob someone. They should have been in prison long before got to this point.

The other two were career criminals out for no other purpose than to rob someone. They should have been in prison long before got to this point.

Definitely. And one was so young looking on his mugshots when they were looking through. Clearly nothings worked to get them off their criminal pathway.

Just some further thoughts from me.
I have worked with children who have ended up like the two young men. They had been given a huge amount of support and care, for them and their families. The cost of the help has been huge. But they still ended up as career criminals.
Another young man I know (well he’s actually family) was similar too. He did something dreadful and ended up in prison at a young age. It was the making of him. He’s out now and has found a job using one of the qualifications he gained inside. He’s married, settled down and has a baby.

Perhaps a spell in prison would help them.

Anyone else watching?

Yes but I don't know if I will stick it out. I find this type of content quite upsetting and a bit weird to watch.

Yes. Very serious one tonight

Very dark episode tonight

Is the girl at the start, a real person or a CGI impression to protect her identity? She doesn't seem quite real.

How exactly can the scum bags sue Adam though? I didn’t think the law worked like that in the UK? Adam has already been punished by the justice system ( sadly) so how can he be further punished?

If so, why can’t Adam sue those two scum bags ?

I actually can completely understand how people get taken in by this person from what they're saying.
I can see how I would have been taken in. Sometimes people crave the loveliness they say the man shows at the beginning.
But it's very scary and it's this that makes me scared for by child.

Wait, did he prison mate just call him a nonce?!

We are trying to work it out. Think it's a different voice maybe , through a synthesiser to moderate it?

This is a very difficult watch.

The voice sounded real to me. And she looked real to me.
Some voices sound like that