Apology
I have now discovered the quarrel that Stanley
It appears that the Immigration Officer who, I wrote, had had his case quietly dropped has in fact been committed to trial in the next sitting of the Assizes. The case has not been “swept under the carpet”.
The old lady whose case, I wrote, had been nolle prossed, had in fact been tried by the Magistrate who had dismissed the charges when the old lady was unable to identify her assailant.
And, the suggestion that Stanley Stanley
For these and any other factual errors in my post I apologise unreservedly to Stanley Stanley
That was one real apology.
ReplyDeleteI am proud of you Don.
Your blog does give us a lot of information we would otherwise not get.
My father used to say mistakes are only made by people who do or say something publicly. People who do nothing do not make mistakes in public.
Sorry you got this one wrong.
It takes a brave person to speak out, and an even braver one to admit 'mia culpa'. Good on you, Don. Keep up the valuable public service!
ReplyDeleteAgree with the above comments; however, your inaccuracies do not change your primary point, which is that the elevation of any police commissioner (irrespective of his jurisprudential qualifications) immediately to Magistrate Judge raises the appearance, at least, of impropriety. How can yesterday's police commissioner be tomorrow's neutral and detached magistrate? Even if the man were pre-eminently qualified (about which I have insufficient information), there is the appearance of impropriety, that the fox has been put in charge of the hen-house.
ReplyDeleteI have had a brother in law who was an inspector of police in the UK, also a cousin who was a constable and i know they would say there is no way this most recent appointment of a magistrate can be unbiased. Police protect police and their supposed reputation to the end in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion this appointment was a wrong one because of previous position held. As if we don't have enough problems. Only in Anguilla.
When something is written it seams to become what people use as a fact. Shame on you and I do look up to you for admitting errors.
ReplyDeletePlease put you new tv show on the web for us off island.
Did you have to commit to leaving down all of the removed posts in the series or could you put them back up with the mistakes removed?
ReplyDeleteNo, there was no request that I leave any of the posts taken down. But, as the major incidents on which they were based have been proven to my satisfaction to have been misreported, the underlying theory of a conspiracy, spoken or unspoken, that binds all the posts together appears to be misfounded, and I consider that it would be dishonourable to put any of them back up.
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