Man charged with student murders

[Charles Foster Kane]

You just couldn't make it up. 100% true.
Guy walks into a police station in London, goes straight to the front of the queue, burnt hands and face, starts yelling at the person behind the counter:
- I'm the person you are looking for the murders of the 2 French students.
- I'm sorry sir, would you mind waiting your turn?
- F'off, OK then.
Sits down, agitated, looking menacingly at the others and complaining:
- I've got 3rd degree burns, I've come to report a murder and nobody wants to know, WTF?
At which point, someone from the queue, decides to act.
Unbelievable, but true.
I believe it happened on the same day as the De Menezes 2scene in Bournemouth. 42 day detention? They'd need 42 months to get it sorted. Police are complete and utter waste of space/money these days.

Funny. Doubt that was how it played out, but funny still.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Given the total incompetence of the police, how come the prisons are all full? I suppose it’s mainly those that should be in mental hospital or alcohol/drug rehab. A career criminal has to be really unlucky or stupid to get caught.

[Dow Jones]

Non-fiction

You just couldn't make it up. 100% true.
Guy walks into a police station in London, goes straight to the front of the queue, burnt hands and face, starts yelling at the person behind the counter:
- I'm the person you are looking for the murders of the 2 French students.
- I'm sorry sir, would you mind waiting your turn?
- F'off, OK then.
Sits down, agitated, looking menacingly at the others and complaining:
- I've got 3rd degree burns, I've come to report a murder and nobody wants to know, WTF?
At which point, someone from the queue, decides to act.
Unbelievable, but true.
I believe it happened on the same day as the De Menezes 2scene in Bournemouth. 42 day detention? They'd need 42 months to get it sorted. Police are complete and utter waste of space/money these days.

[Diver]

He pushed to the front of the Q at the cop shop, thus stopping a woman reporting that her dog was missing, thus perverting the course of justice

[HairyArsedBloke]

I suppose he was preventing the police from processing the images from the CCTV cameras to spot motoring offences or something else important like that.

[Moscow Mule]

But ‘perverting the course of justice’ by handing yourself in?!

I think it might be for setting the place ablaze after he'd stabbed the bloke 237 times rather than handing himself in. But who knows these days.

[TheBigYinJames]

But ‘perverting the coarse of justice’ by handing yourself in?!

He did barge to the front of an orderly queue, though. This is still England, surely? Some concepts are more valuable than justice, and the queue is one of them.

[HairyArsedBloke]

They've missed a trick.

They could have done him for conspiracy as well...

In my student days we had the wonderful ‘sus’ laws. I knew of a genuine case of someone arrested on “suspicion of conspiracy with persons unknown to commit offences unknown”. OK, so in reality all the police wanted to do was keep the guy from causing trouble during and after the football, but it was an abuse of their powers. There was another chap who was arrested for “going equipped for stealing” with the keys to his own flat and car. Yes, he was “a wrong ‘n” too.

But ‘perverting the course of justice’ by handing yourself in?!

[Platypus]

Explanation 1: They were french, they surrendered.

[TheBigYinJames]

What I'd like to know is how this guy, who is apparently rather small and thin, managed to truss up two sturdy students. Did he creep in and catch them asleep perhaps?

Explanation 1: They were french, they surrendered.
Explanation 2: The were playing on PSPs, so had no wrist strength

[OwlHoot]

What I'd like to know is how this guy, who is apparently rather small and thin, managed to truss up two sturdy students. Did he creep in and catch them asleep perhaps?

[OwlHoot]

Hmm, a conspiracy, conspiracy theory Is it possible to create a conspiracy, conspiracy conspiracy theory too

Yup, I reckon that's what you're hinting at. But then I'm a bit paranoid.

[TimberWolf]

They've missed a trick.

They could have done him for conspiracy as well...

Hmm, a conspiracy, conspiracy theory Is it possible to create a conspiracy, conspiracy conspiracy theory too

[NickFitz]

Not to mention the kiddie pron on his computer, of course.

It isn't on there yet - give them a chance

[TimberWolf]

Yep, the same one that walked into a police station to give himself up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7498418.stm

In addition to his other [alleged] crimes he is also being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice. Presumably they can get him either way on that last one. If he's guilty of the other crimes he can be done for not giving himself up, and if he isn't guilty of them he can be done for giving himself up. Easy pickings, it does help a lot when they turn up to give themselves up.