Injustices

The more we hear about the Caroline Flack story the more confused I am.

Looking back Lewis Burton must regret calling 999 and saying ‘she tried to kill me mate’ because this was the precise action from which it was escalated and spiralled thereafter.

His call triggered camera wearing police to her home, it meant scene of crime photographers, healthcare workers were involved and then the CPS and prosecutors…..all triggered after that phone call.

The boyfriend said almost immediately that he was not interested in perusing the matter and wanted it put to bed. However the media were already putting 2+2 together and getting 5 and with photos from inside the house presumably sold by someone within a trusted authority. Social media platforms and organisations were giving their thoughts on Caroline’s behaviour; as was an ex-boyfriend in Australia who decided to put the boot in to her for good measure with his comments about their time together.

Sadly her trial had started the minute the incident started, people were judge, jury and executioner long before the case even got to court. Justice was never part of it in her case.

I certainly do not see that just because someone is ‘vulnerable’ they cannot be touched by the legal system. That is a ridiculous stance to take, most millennials would be above the law if that were the case!

Some years ago at a works night out there was literally a few second ‘flare-up’ among 3 colleagues. These people got on really well, hence socializing and had worked close on 25 years together. Alcohol played a part and there was a ‘spat’ and two people needed separating by other colleagues. That would have been the end of it….however at the very second of the flashpoint there were 6 police in the same pub on the floor below who had been called to a more serious incident, they heard the shouting, flew up the stairs and charged in to the people. They grabbed the back of one guy who was only separating two of them (he could not see who it was behind him). He tried to shrug the person off him and was arrested for assaulting a police officer, he went to court, was found guilty and now has a record. In no way was justice done, the two actual protagonists were not even spoken to by the police.

It’s the same when you see the police having ‘an hour or so’ stopping bikes without lights or drivers on phones. They issue the unlucky few a hard word or a fine, a few feet away countless others are going past doing the same things and getting away with it.

There are so many examples in daily life when police turn a blind eye that I actually think these incidents actually highlight injustice far more than it shows justice being done. The masses get away with stuff is truth and only the very unlucky ones get caught. That is not justice.