MP arrested for criminal damage

[Xenophon]

got me ya bazza

[EternalOptimist]

Indeed. However, I made it up. I lied. I told a non-truth.

/hangs head in shame

got me ya bazza

[Xenophon]

ouch! could have been nasty

Indeed. However, I made it up. I lied. I told a non-truth.

/hangs head in shame

[EternalOptimist]

One of the window-wipers got caught on his belt and snapped off.

ouch! could have been nasty



found this site and found it v interesting - check the 'friends' tab
http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?...ton+South+West

[Xenophon]

How can it be "criminal damage"? I can't see how he damaged the van by climbing over it. What did he kick a dent in it as well?

One of the window-wipers got caught on his belt and snapped off.

[Xenophon]

Mr Marris, 53, said: "I have no comment to make.

"This is a personal matter which has no bearing on my parliamentary duties and the law must quite properly take its course.

"I intend to plead not guilty to this charge."

This is also what MPs say when they get caught with their pants down with a choir boy.

[Churchill]

He has a painting in his attic that is turning slowly black...

Allegedly.

Didn't we have someone post on here as "Dorian Gray"?

[KentPhilip]

How can it be "criminal damage"? I can't see how he damaged the van by climbing over it. What did he kick a dent in it as well?

[thunderlizard]

count me one of them. Free the Wolverhampton One!

He looks very young for 53.

[Spacecadet]

I think he was in the right.

Far too many white-van-driving, knuckle-dragging, bone-headed twats parked where they shouldn't be and thinking they own the pavements as well as the roads.

morally right, legally wrong.
At least most of the public will be behind him on this one

[BrilloPad]

I think he was in the right.

Far too many white-van-driving, knuckle-dragging, bone-headed twats parked where they shouldn't be and thinking they own the pavements as well as the roads.

absolutely! but why was he arrested - totally crazy.

[bogeyman]

I think he was in the right.

Far too many white-van-driving, knuckle-dragging, bone-headed twats parked where they shouldn't be and thinking they own the pavements as well as the roads.

[Turion]

Apparently he took the direct route in order to board the bus - by clambouring over the bonnet of the van

More detail here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

Would be good if someone had filmed it!

[BrilloPad]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...,00.html?f=rss

Labour MP Charged With Criminal Damage
Updated:07:13, Saturday April 19, 2008

A Labour MP has been arrested and charged with criminal damage.
Rob Marris, MP for Wolverhampton South West, is accused of causing damage to a white van at a bus stop in Wolverhampton.

Marris denies charge
The MP, a former solicitor, denies climbing over the bonnet of a parked van to board a bus in Jeffcock Road, Penn Fields, last month.

Mr Marris, 53, said: "I have no comment to make.

"This is a personal matter which has no bearing on my parliamentary duties and the law must quite properly take its course.

"I intend to plead not guilty to this charge."

A West Midlands Police spokeswoman told the Express and Star newspaper: "A 53-year-old man from Wolverhampton has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage following an alleged incident at a bus stop in Jeffcock Road.

"He has now been charged with the offence."

Mr Marris was arrested and charged after attending Bilston Street police station at the request of police.

He is expected to appear before magistrates later this month.


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One might think that perhaps the van shouldn't have been parked at the bus stop in the first place, but putting that aside, the good people of Wolverhampton will sleep easier in their beds knowing there is zero tolerance to this kind of thing.