Quote Originally Posted by johncar54 View Post
WE are back to the same old idea that committing criminal damage to a war memorial is a particular crime. It's not. He could and should be charged with criminal damage. As he has a high profile father it may do some good as others may be deterred. In most cases it is almost a waste of time to charge criminal damage if the value of the damage is low, as any court sentence would be low too.

(PS I don't want to get into the argument that I might not have respect for the war heroes: I am just stating what the actual UK law is)



Yesterday, legal experts said Gilmour could be prosecuted under the Public Order Act for threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace, on the basis that his act could have caused grave offence to war veterans.

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