Dr Julian Lewis slams treatment of Eve Ritchie-Fallon (From This is Hampshire)

The Crown Prosecution Service is a joke, only ever looking for easy prosecutions and opportunities to make examples of perfectly good (and usually innocent!) members of society. Without delay there should be a case review of this incident and the duty prosecutor who authorised the charges should face some very tough questioning themselves!

It is not often that I am in agreement with Tory MPs, but do in this instance.
The Crown Prosecution Service, who initiated this prosecution, is a non-political body, but to whom is it answerable?
With the evidence, or lack of, that was available to support the charge, who decided that it should go ahead?
It is bad enough that the person who claimed that he had been assaulted, and those who supported him, should remain anonymous, but why should the person who gave the case the go-ahead not be named?

Absolutely right, I was prosecuted for shouting at a tresspasser on my front garden. The tresspasser accused me of damaging his hearing and was put through a similar ordeal for 9 months until it was finally dropped. I really feel for eve.

Have the authorities not made enough fool of themselves in the court of law yet?
They dragged this head teacher through the courts on the basis of unreliable (Or shall I say manufactured) evidence and rightly failed to prove the case.
Now they are making further laughing stock of themselves by keeping the employee suspended.
How come teaching unions are letting them get away this?
Credit should be given where it is due not on the basis of political bias; Julian Lewes is right on this one.

As I said yesterday, those responsible at the Crown Prosecution Service should be hanging their heads in shame.

Never enough reliable evidence and never in the publics' interest to proceed.

Instead a career of what appears to be a good public servant along with a specialist school that has had to operate with this hanging over them has been put through the mill.

Hants CC Education bosses now need to act swiftly to reinstate this woman and bring this sorry episode to an end.

The balance between protecting children (which should be high up there) and being an overbearing nanny society has swung too far.

We just seem to have our priorities all wrong at the present time.

Take a look at the Daily Mail web site today (Thursday). There's another bunch of chav parents complaining because their little darlings are placed in isolation when they are disruptive. They are also complaining because only kids who behave and abide by school rules on discipline and uniform are allowed to go on school trips. Priceless ! Or maybe, looking at the photos, I should say Shameless ! What are the chances of the kids who do behave and who do want to learn when so much time is spent pandering to the needs of these morons. Chavs breeding chavs ad nauseum.

This is what the teaching profession is up against. It's no use politicians being outraged by these incidents, they have to start amending the laws behind which these kids are hiding and making these accusations.

Let's get back to the days when kids behaved in class or suffered the consequences from the teacher, the head teacher AND their parents. Let's get back to the days when kids were pupils - not students as the new liberal teachers like to call them.

Forest Resident wrote:
The Crown Prosecution Service is a joke, only ever looking for easy prosecutions and opportunities to make examples of perfectly good (and usually innocent!) members of society. Without delay there should be a case review of this incident and the duty prosecutor who authorised the charges should face some very tough questioning themselves!

I couldn't agree more. This incident should never have ended up in court and the the pupil should have been charged with wasting police time.

soton1980 wrote:

Forest Resident wrote: The Crown Prosecution Service is a joke, only ever looking for easy prosecutions and opportunities to make examples of perfectly good (and usually innocent!) members of society. Without delay there should be a case review of this incident and the duty prosecutor who authorised the charges should face some very tough questioning themselves!

I couldn't agree more. This incident should never have ended up in court and the the pupil should have been charged with wasting police time.

Can understand your sentiment soton1980, but what would it serve?
An appearance in court?
Found guilty and fined?
Who would pick up the bill for his legal fees?
That's right! You and me!
As he is not working, and it would appear, unemployable, who would pay his fine?
Community service perhaps!
The way he could best serve the community would be if he emigrated!

Alright Dr Lewis. You've made a point, everyone on here agrees with the sentiment. You are an MP, now what are you going to do about it? I've just read through the piece again and it appears you don't intend to do anything at all. So sooner or later it is going to happen again. And again.

UKjusticeisajoke wrote:

Paramjit Bahia wrote:
Have the authorities not made enough fool of themselves in the court of law yet?
They dragged this head teacher through the courts on the basis of unreliable (Or shall I say manufactured) evidence and rightly failed to prove the case.
Now they are making further laughing stock of themselves by keeping the employee suspended.
How come teaching unions are letting them get away this?
Credit should be given where it is due not on the basis of political bias; Julian Lewes is right on this one.

Why do you say manufactured evidence????? This is what happened!!! And it has happened before, the kids were just to frightened to speak out against her. She was a bully and very controlling. Nobody at the school wants her back!!! it will be unbearable if she was ever to come back

Because that's better than saying "they lied" ! You really need to go back to yesterday's article, then today's article READ and INWARDLY DIGEST what it says. Can't be that difficult can it, or are you saying everyone else except the 15 year old pair of charmers are not telling the truth ? Also, can you prove "it happened before".

Britain needs another 18 years of Tory rule to bring standards back in to all aspects of public life.

As governor of a local school as well as a member of the crown prosecution service scrutiny panel, I am absolutely appalled in the manner we as a community have undermined Mrs Fallon. We do this all the time, hence I am not surprised many of our children have been brought up as a scum of the earth. It is not their fault - it is politicians like Margaret Thatcher , some parents who are responsible for undermining fine teachers who try to do their dirty job for them. After all we never learnt how to educate or discipline children. In the days of the Raj we shipped them off to the happy valleys to populate white Australia or Africa etc., and cause havoc abroad. Now we cannot do this and have to look after them on this island or use them as cheap fodder for our various wars and on return from the war zones they naturally commit crimes and end up overcrowding our prisons. It is said that 40% of prisoners are ex-army - all they are trained for is to kill or getting killed. The delays, proper investigation by the system before being indiscriminately charged, general incompetence of lawyers at the CPS with no prospect of conviction is yet another painful process that such an innocent offender is victimised and treated in such an inhumane manner

B. L. wrote:

UKjusticeisajoke wrote:

Paramjit Bahia wrote:
Have the authorities not made enough fool of themselves in the court of law yet?
They dragged this head teacher through the courts on the basis of unreliable (Or shall I say manufactured) evidence and rightly failed to prove the case.
Now they are making further laughing stock of themselves by keeping the employee suspended.
How come teaching unions are letting them get away this?
Credit should be given where it is due not on the basis of political bias; Julian Lewes is right on this one.

Why do you say manufactured evidence????? This is what happened!!! And it has happened before, the kids were just to frightened to speak out against her. She was a bully and very controlling. Nobody at the school wants her back!!! it will be unbearable if she was ever to come back

Because that's better than saying "they lied" ! You really need to go back to yesterday's article, then today's article READ and INWARDLY DIGEST what it says. Can't be that difficult can it, or are you saying everyone else except the 15 year old pair of charmers are not telling the truth ? Also, can you prove "it happened before".

To UKjusticeisajoke- Head teachers are supposed to be controlling! What a stupid thing to say.
You must be a pupil there right? As you say '*it will be* unbearable if she ever came back', if you are a pupil there you need to understand that teachers/ head teachers are supposed to be controlling- that is their job. Or, are you a member of staff with a gripe?