Looking for Trouble

Some brave young persons doing a wonderful job in difficult circumstances may soon be subjected to the onerous experience of having criminal charges brought against them. The Crown Prosecution Service has received a file on the Lancashire police officers who tasered a visually impaired stroke survivor last October; presumably because the victim in this case has not had the courtesy to die on the spot and thereby prove himself among the criminally inclined. Instead, he is claiming assault, false imprisonment and a breach of whatever human rights the Home Office has not yet bundled onto a plane back to Brussels. It is to be hoped that the officers involved have been given appropriate advice in polishing their notes on the incident for maximum accuracy, so that the likely non-prosecution can proceed smoothly towards the inevitable acquittal.