Greater Manchester Police, sausage attack.

[max Headroom]

In all my days have I never heard about anything which comes close to this disgusting form of abuse to the most vulnerable members of the society, the elderly, imagine this poor old man just going about his day, perhaps reminiscing the good old days how he did his bit in giving those nasty, horrid jerries a sound thrashing during the ww2 and then in his twilight years, his only fears are avoiding dog turds on the footpath, then outa the blue a vile and may I add a totaly unprovoked attack, a incomming airborne piece of processed meat full of presevatives and assorted carcenagenics, mein gott, what is the youth of england coming to and how about those silly coppers they should have their brains charged with vagrancy.


Last Updated: Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 15:21 GMT 16:21 UK

Boy is accused of sausage assault

The boy's mother described the prosecution as a joke
A 12-year-old boy was charged with assault and taken before the courts - for throwing a cocktail sausage.
The boy was accused of throwing the pork snack at a 74-year-old man in Woodhouse Park, south Manchester.

He denied the charge in a hearing at a Manchester Youth Court, where the judge questioned the decision to prosecute.

Greater Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) are now reviewing the case, which the boy's mother described as an "utter joke".

She told the BBC: "They came to arrest him in my house, they took him into a police van. They took him to Elizabeth Slinger [police station], put him in a cell, took his photographs, his fingerprints, then interviewed him.

Greater Manchester Police takes all incidents of anti-social behaviour very seriously and they are investigated thoroughly

GMP spokeswoman

"And then they decided to charge him with common assault - with a sausage.

"It had quite a bit of an effect on him. He couldn't sleep. He takes sleeping tablets anyway - but they didn't work."

Asked whether she accepted that he needed to be punished, she told the BBC: "Definitely yes, but not to the extent that they have gone."

The incident involving the boy, who cannot be named, was alleged to have taken place on 11 August.

The victim, who believed he had been hit with a stone, told police it was the latest in a series of incidents in which he had been intimidated by local youths.

Charging the boy was the only option because he had previously been issued with three reprimands, a GMP spokeswoman said.

"The officer's decision to charge was completely in line with standard procedure, and took all available information into consideration," she added.

"Greater Manchester Police takes all incidents of anti-social behaviour very seriously and they are investigated thoroughly."

The police and CPS are now jointly reviewing the prosecution, she added.

[andysfootball]

3 strikes and your out

teach the little barsteward a lesson

a clip around the lug would have been better

but the cops would have been in more trouble than the young fu/ckwit

we create the society we live in

[sherri]

3 strikes and your out

teach the little barsteward a lesson

a clip around the lug would have been better

but the cops would have been in more trouble than the young fu/ckwit

we create the society we live in

Totally agree, and wouldn't he have had a surprise. a lot of these kids can give it but they can't take it.

[Ugly Betty]

Errrm, he's 12 and on sleeping p*lls?? I digress from the main
point of the story, admittedly, but something about this just doesn't
seem right.

If he's been given 3 reprimands to date, he should take his punishment.
Why was he throwing anything at anyone to begin with?? The Mom seems
to think he's been punished but from this article it doesn't seem as if he's
been punished at all. Maybe, therein, lies the problem.