It's not so cut and dried Wayne, i know personally 3 people who got sent down while innocent and another a victim of circumstance, lieing witnesses and a million to one terrible luck.. that 4th one could happen to any one of us who drive a car, the guy was the most law abiding all round nice guys ive ever had the fortune to meet, and NEVER drove like his hair was on fire.
One of the innocents was my nephew, no angle, granted, but.. A pub fight broke out around him, he stayed out of it but got lifted in a group arrest. Someone got hurt quite badly so an example was to be made. All the fighters plead guilty, and got wrist slaps or a few week inside. My nephew pleaded his innocence, because he was, even though his council told him to plead guilty.. and yep.. 6 months inside. First offence.
The other Nephew a few of you have met, beat up a burglar who was in his house, after telling the burglar 3 times to get out, Slave T got a load of abuse and threats back, so he hit the burglar, the burglar broke a pepper mill around slave T's head so T kicked the shit out of him.
ABH, 12 months. Maybe not quite innocent, but come on, he was protecting his house, mrs and kids and asked the guy to leave.
One of the others, a lad i grew up with, , dead now indirectly because of going to jail, no angel, fights etc.. but I KNOW he didnt do what he was accused of.
Rape.
The girl in question's husband was once a so called mate, who was skint and started to dream up get rich quick schemes. He is bigger then ME, and i aint small.. My mate was built like Butty.
My mate "beat up then tied up" the husband then did the deed.
There is a lot of stuff went on that i know, and that aint getting put on here, but the upshot is i know 1000% he didnt do it.
After this he'd get arrested and banged up for the slightest thing. He was marked (im shaking me head at the memory here)
He asked a lad outside a chippy for a chip - the lad was an old school mate.. a copper saw him and he got arrested and jailed for Kidnap!!!!!! Yeah really.
This stretch really fucked his head up.
Before jail he was the most anti drugs person i knew. After that he came out he was addicted to anything that could be injected.
He was walking while off his tits on wizz a couple of year ago, when he got gripped by police and thrown in to police van and died. Bruises & grazes on his knees and his lower back / neck at the inquest were unexplained.
The toxicology report came back no trace of drugs in his system. Yeah. Fucking right. he'd rattle if he went more then a few hour without something.
It pays to remember, There but for the grace of god go I