Cyclist cleared of assault

MadammeMarie

Remember this guy?

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23884814-cyclist-is-cleared-of-assault-thanks-to-standard-readers.do

_Brun_

Should be re-tried for the offence of cycling in flip-flops.

dhope

Love one of the responses.

Although the cabbie was wrong in this case (and I do hope he is prosecuted for assault), cyclists should be made to take a road proficiency test before being allowed to use the roads.

If every other vehicle on the road has to pass a test before they are let loose, why should cyclists and mopeds be any different?

It simply means that we have one group of road users with less road awareness and judgement, which in turn means they are a danger to themselves and others.

Right... so gloss over the assault bit and get right back on the anti cycling rant :roll:

nich

Grr, the amount of generalisation in the comment section on that site makes me sick

mybreakfastconsisted

My witness testified that on three separate occasions he attempted to explain and give his details to the arresting officer but was dismissed each time. This same arresting officer assured me, in his squad car and later at the police station, that he had taken the details of that witness.

Two months later, when that same officer informed me I was being charged for assault, I was horrified to discover the police had no record at all of my witness.



http://cyclistneedshelp.blogspot.com/

Bloody hell!

Will anyone be charged over this? The cabbie? The coppers?

shm_uk

The most worrying thing about this story is: what would have happened to the cyclist if the two witnesses had not come forward after reading the media report?

Plus the Police didn't even bother to take a statement from the guy who had given first aid to the cyclist :shock:


What on earth could you do in a situation where you've been falsely accused (thanks to an incorrect witness), with no witnesses to back this up?

Clarion

Very similar to something which happened to me around the same time (though, thankfully, I was not throttled in the assault by the taxi driver).

Met Police don't give a shit. In my case, they lied repeatedly about investigating, never got a statement from me, and didn't follow up witnesses. The officer investigating said that the assault was proportionate because I was holding the cabbie up trying to get his details. This isn't the case in law, but that doesn't seem to matter to the Police.

I hope in this case that the first 'witness' is tried for perjury or wasting Police time, and the cabbie is tried for the vicious assault at the very least.

cee

scary stuff :shock:

lost_in_thought

cee wrote:

scary stuff :shock:

+1

spen666

Clarion wrote:

....

I hope in this case that the first 'witness' is tried for perjury or wasting Police time, and the cabbie is tried for the vicious assault at the very least.

firstly- Clarion let me say the police officers comments to you were a disgrace and should have been the subject of a complaint to the IPCC



As for the case in the paer. There is probably insufficient evidence to charge taxi driver as you suggest.

The finding in the magistrates court was simply that the prosecution had not proven that the cyclist assaulted the taxi driver. That is very different from saying the taxi driver had lied.

Sad, but its unlikely that a prosecution of taxi driver can follow

SamWise1972

Surely a case against the Taxi driver for throttling the cyclist unconscious is very much on the cards though? The Police don't seem to be required to do things under the law; if they actively break it themselves, that may cause them a problem, but they seem entirely able to decide where to enforce it, to the extent that members of this forum have had letters from the Met saying that they feel the fine for a driver entering the ASL is disproportionate, and therefore won't enforce it - they didn't feel the need to cover that up. I would be amazed if anyone who was alive in the 80s trusted the police at all.

tarquin_foxglove

I was quite surprised by this comment on the ES site...

And for the cyclist hit by the bus in high street Ken last night. When the driver of the vehicle which has just hit you gets out to help it is considered a bad idea to try and kick him while laying on your back and and screaming abuse. . .that is why, in the kicking stakes you came off much worse. Bus driver 2. Cyclist 0.

- jimbob, Kensington, 05/10/2010 13:34

Is Jim Bob admitting to kicking a cyclist on the ground after hitting him with a bus?

Chewy Cheeks

_Brun_ wrote:

Should be re-tried for the offence of cycling in flip-flops.

Yes its a crime but just a minor one.

However on the face of it - a Taxi Driver who assaults somebody and gets away with it as well as the police seeming to have made a pigs breakfast of the whole thing,'s does not sit well.

It's all a bit Monty Python.

mybreakfastconsisted

Cycling in flip flops isn't a crime, is it?

Mr Sworld

mybreakfastconsisted wrote:

Cycling in flip flops isn't a crime, is it?

Meredydd Hughes, Chief Constable of South Yorkshire, says:

“One fact quoted to me quite often is that the single biggest crime commited nowadays is cycling in flip flops.”

mybreakfastconsisted

Mr Sworld wrote:

mybreakfastconsisted wrote:

Cycling in flip flops isn't a crime, is it?

Meredydd Hughes, Chief Constable of South Yorkshire, says:

“One fact quoted to me quite often is that the single biggest crime commited nowadays is cycling in flip flops.”

Got a source for that?

I've never heard of any legal restrictions on cycling footwear.

SamWise1972

mybreakfastconsisted wrote:

Mr Sworld wrote:

mybreakfastconsisted wrote:

Cycling in flip flops isn't a crime, is it?

Meredydd Hughes, Chief Constable of South Yorkshire, says:

“One fact quoted to me quite often is that the single biggest crime commited nowadays is cycling in flip flops.”

Got a source for that?

I've never heard of any legal restrictions on cycling footwear.

*sigh*

MonkeyMonster

mybreakfastconsisted wrote:

Mr Sworld wrote:

mybreakfastconsisted wrote:

Cycling in flip flops isn't a crime, is it?

Meredydd Hughes, Chief Constable of South Yorkshire, says:

“One fact quoted to me quite often is that the single biggest crime commited nowadays is cycling in flip flops.”

Got a source for that?

I've never heard of any legal restrictions on cycling footwear.

thats made my afternoon cheers mbfc!

deptfordmarmoset

BOT (back on topic)....

It looks like a major travesty of justice has been averted. But that only means a major injustice has been stopped, justice itself has a lot of ground to make up - it hasn't even started.

dilemna

Shameful on the part of the Met Police and CPS. But they do have form.