paris n i ran into a couple of friends of mine this afternoon in town,both mid 60s the husband uses a walking stick due to poor health, they told us they were walking down Burnley Rd, approx 9-00 one evening about 2 weeks ago, when this yob charged inbetween em knocking her into a wall n snatched her handbag, her right elbow is still badly bruised (black) the yob never managed to take off with the bag even though the strap snapped, my friend beat him off with his stick, they then reported the incident to the police,only to be told - theres not enough evidence to persue this.
they obviously went nuts about this, she wrote to the Home Office, and also Greg Pope, (perhaps Greg will clarify this?) greg responded, it is now deemed an offence, i advised her to seek advice, what the "Hell" is going on thesedays? when incidents like this are NOT being deemed an offence? it makes me wonder it perhaps now depends WHO is attacked? they are just 2 ordinary decent folk who never did anyone any harm. would the police look at this in a differant light if it was an immigrant who was attacked? i suspect they would. it dont give me any confidence in the law.