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Football fans sent to prison for violent brawl in Shrewsbury Town.



Footsoldier

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May 26, 2013
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Anyone up in Shrewsbury for our last game a few years back, wasn't there but heard it was naughty.

Prison for a few handbags while rapists get a caution. Has this country lost it's marbles?

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Soccer hooligans begin jail terms after brawl costs public £60,000
A town centre brawl before a Shrewsbury Town game cost the public nearly £60,000, it has been revealed.

Up to 30 football fans have received prison sentences and 4-10 years football banning orders for a violent brawl which occurred on 14th October 2012 between Shrewsbury Town and Walsall in Shrewsbury Town Centre.

A police officer from Shropshire whose leg was broken in the massive town centre brawl has still not fully recovered a year later, it was revealed in court, as more football hooligans were jailed.

The court watched CCTV of the ugly scene which involved multiple fights with men kicking, punching and flooring one another as the out of control crowd descended down the street.

Sentencing Judge Graham Cliff said: “This was in a public place where members of the public were no doubt frightened, inconvenienced and in which a police officer was injured.”

Fans were given jail sentences ranging from 6 months to 18 months in prison and 2 fans were given 250 hours community service.

Football hooliganism has been rising in the lower divisions in the last few seasons and the Authorities are now clamping down hard on it.
 
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Dec 29, 2011
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Does look like good fun. No on there who doesn't want to be, people who go down rarely get a kicking on the floor. Looks like good, honest fun
 




Man of Harveys

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Jul 9, 2003
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Brighton, UK
SuM toOpp biOiys theiR gud fotsoljas sUm scARFas hirT to wich wuz rOng
 


Thunder Bolt

Ordinary Supporter
Anyone up in Shrewsbury for our last game a few years back, wasn't there but heard it was naughty.

Prison for a few handbags while rapists get a caution. Has this country lost it's marbles?

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Our last game was a JPT match which we won on penalties as John Sullivan saved one. It was in 2008, and no sign of any trouble, handbags or other as I was there.
 


Footsoldier

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May 26, 2013
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4 years for some for kicking or throwing a punch :eek:

Don't want to get into politics but some sentences dished out in court these days for vile crimes get less.
 




Cheshire Cat

The most curious thing..
Which rapist got a caution?
 


Footsoldier

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May 26, 2013
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Our last game was a JPT match which we won on penalties as John Sullivan saved one. It was in 2008, and no sign of any trouble, handbags or other as I was there.

League game when we won the title. We went up there to celebrate and all hell broke lose in the town center.
 


Footsoldier

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Which rapist got a caution?

More than 100 rapists have been let off with a police caution, it was revealed yesterday. The 111 cases included 66 incidents of child rape.

The extent to which police forces have handed cautions to rapists, whose crime carries a maximum sentence of life in jail, was made public as Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced a full-scale review of the system of punishing crime with cautions and on-the-spot fines.

Mr Straw acted after a weekend when senior police chiefs and the Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC called for curbs on the use of out-of-court punishments.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson also condemned the 'uncontrollable increase in cautions' and said that on-the-spot fines, now often used to punish offences such as shoplifting, 'in the public's minds equate to a parking ticket.'

The system of fixed-penalty fines and cautions has been introduced over the past six years as a way to deal with minor crime cheaply and effectively.

But the disclosure that cautions have been used repeatedly to deal with rapists is the clearest demonstration that the system is now being used to keep the most serious crimes out of the courts.

The figures released to MPs by the Home Office show numbers of cautions handed to rapists after the 2003 Sexual Offences Act became law in May 2004.
 






Cheshire Cat

The most curious thing..
4 years for some for kicking or throwing a punch :eek:

Don't want to get into politics but some sentences dished out in court these days for vile crimes get less.
Nobody got "four years". Read the article - 18 months was the longest jail sentence. The banning orders were four years, but that is not what you implied.
 






Footsoldier

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Which rapist got a caution?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22509506

14 May 2013

Five rapists were given police cautions rather than taken to court last year, figures released by the Metropolitan Police have shown.

Cautions were given to 28,998 people, including 180 for grievous bodily harm or wounding and 165 for sex offences.

The Met said it followed national police guidelines.

London Assembly member Tony Arbour, who requested the figures, said the use of cautions for serious offences was "outrageous".

The Metropolitan Police said: "For a caution to be issued, an offender must have made a clear and reliable admission, there is a realistic prospect of a conviction, and it is in the public interest to administer a caution.
Continue reading the main story
Cautions

An informal caution is an oral warning given by a police officer and does not count towards a criminal record
A formal caution will normally be given at a police station by an officer of inspector rank or above. It is regarded as a serious matter and may be cited in any subsequent court proceedings
A caution is not a conviction but it is administered only in cases where there is sufficient evidence for a prosecution and where the subject has admitted guilt

"For some sexual offences, in cases where the victim may not wish to proceed to court... the accused individual can be placed on the sex offences register for two years."

According to the figures, 5,843 people received cautions for violent attacks with injury, 131 for robbery and 318 offenders for drug trafficking.

Mr Arbour said: "It is unfair on victims, and the fact that a law-abiding resident will receive the same or even worse punishment for minor traffic offences as drug traffickers, robbers and rapists is simply outrageous."

The Crown Prosecution Service said there are two types of caution - simple and conditional. In the case of the latter, failure to comply with specific conditions would result in the original offence being prosecuted.

It said it advised police on indictable offences such as rape and murder, but otherwise it was an operational police matter.

Justice Minister Damian Green said: "The use of cautions has drastically fallen in the last five years and we are clear that people who commit serious crimes should be brought before a court."

He added a review into their use was due to be published shortly.

Javed Khan, chief executive of Victim Support, said: "Victims must have decisions explained to them in order to retain their confidence in the police and other criminal justice agencies.

"The police need to be clear on when it is appropriate to give a caution - for example this is not likely to be right for most violent and sexual offences."
 




Vegas Seagull

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Jul 10, 2009
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League game when we won the title. We went up there to celebrate and all hell broke lose in the town center.

Indeed, bout 100 were drinking outside a pub on the route back to the station not having been to the game...bravely sought out the early leavers, easy pickings at that stage
 


Westdene Seagull

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Oct 27, 2003
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The arse end of Hangleton
No sympathy what so ever. If they were pathetic, stupid and idiotic enough to act "all hard" and in the manner on that film then they deserve to be punished. It's brainless twats like them that has given football supporters such a bad name. Hope they enjoy the showers - bet they won't act so hard then !
 




happypig

Staring at the rude boys
May 23, 2009
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Eastbourne
Leaving aside "A police officer from Shropshire whose leg was broken" as a possible reason for the sentencing and looking at cautions for rape, a not uncommon scenario is one where there is a girl of 15 who has engaged in a fully consensual sexual relationship with a boy of 16/17. Technically and legally he is committing rape and if an unhappy parent reports it to the police it is often the case that a caution is the most pragmatic solution.
 





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