Another Candidate For That Darwin Award ?

mikey4444 | 17:22 Fri 05th Sep 2014 | News

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wales/

Makes me ashamed to live in the same country as this ***.

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naomi24

Ahhh, got it. 'The Archers'. I don't follow the soaps.

mikey4444

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Soaps ? Soaps ? ....wash your mouth out with soap and water !

naomi24

If it's all the same to you, I'll stick to water. I told you, I don't do soaps.

vulcan42

\\ Col Tim Van Rees, defending, said: "The defendant is not a racist of any sort. He stands before you totally ashamed of what he did."//
Am I missing something? I assume the Col is short for Colonel, so why is an Army Officer defending him?

mikey4444

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I saw that in the report, Vulcan and it puzzled me as well. I suppose he might be a retired Army Officer ?

wolf63

Vulcan ~ I pondered over that but decided that I wasn't reading the article properly and gave up. :-(

mikey4444

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I've had another look and I can't see an explanation of why an Army Officer should be defending a civilian. But could it perhaps that an Army Counsel was appointed by the Court, as the victim was a serving Soldier...this sounds most likely. Was the offence referred to the CPS by the Army ? Dealing with soldiers in Court is quite often done under Army rules.

Still, a puzzler ! Perhaps New Judge can enlighten us here ?