@AlexNOOOO: "The ex-BBC local news bod was recently convicted following an incident =
at a pub he ran.
It seems that there was trouble with some of the customers and he hit =
one in the face with a wooden pole from a garden unbrella.
He was done for wounding , which is straightforward enough , but was =
also convicted of perverting the course of justice because he threw the =
pole over a fence when the police arrived.
That seems a little odd to me - surely by that token anyone who tried to =
conceal their crimes or does anything other than offering a full =
confession straight away should also be found guilty of this charge?
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Alex
"I laugh in the face of danger , then I hide until it goes away""
    @AlexNOOOO: ""Cynic" <email_address> wrote in message =
news:<email_address>
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also convicted of perverting the course of justice because he threw the =
pole over a fence when the police arrived.
to conceal their crimes or does anything other than offering a full =
confession straight away should also be found guilty of this charge?
Indeed.
Just about every other conviction I can think of for this offence has =
been for someone other than the original offender who has helped to =
dispose of evidence.
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Alex
"I laugh in the face of danger , then I hide until it goes away""
    @richard: "In message <email_address>, Cynic 
<email_address> writes
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And that seems to be what happened here. It was not his throwing the 
pole away that did for him, but denying in interview that he had done so 
until confronted with CCTV footage of him doing so.
That was my thought. This happens hundreds of times every day, yet the 
police do nothing about it, so why did they pursue a charge with this 
guy?
Richard Miller"
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