CPS officially a bunch of incompetent fucking idiots
A Queen’s Counsel who is also a keen cyclist is fighting a frustrating battle to have the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Metropolitan Police take action against a driver who threatened to kill him, despite having video footage of the incident.
The CPS says “there was insufficient evidence to secure a conviction”. This is the same CPS who are fucking up the life of Paul Chambers for making a joke on Twitter (Telegraph) and that may take action against a Conservative councillor (Guardian) for a more ill-advised ‘joke’ on Twitter, where he suggested a columnist should be stoned to death.
As Adam Banks wryly noted on Twitter, the first of these things is menacing, but the CPS seemingly doesn’t care, because it’s not on Twitter. (Given his Twitter-based criticism of the CPS, I wish Adam well after he’s arrested and thrown into a dungeon.) Still, with IamSpartacus rapidly trending alongside messages (i.e. CLEAR AND OBVIOUS JOKES) regarding bombings and destruction, the CPS will soon have its work cut out. Precedent suggests it will have to arrest everyone making such tweets, unless it finally admits Chambers (and even Tory boy Gareth Compton) ultimately didn’t do anything untoward.
If they don’t prosecute that driver I’m blowing up the video *
* to 1080P CSI style so we can read his numberplate.