There are seemingly no depths TV Licensing wont sink to in order to secure either a licence sale or conviction.
The BBC's scummy revenue generation arm has been at it again, this time with news that it decided to prosecuted a woman detained under the Mental Health Act.
The 32-year-old woman told the TV Licensing goon visiting her property that she was "not feeling well" and revealed that she had post traumatic stress disorder and trouble keeping up with her finances.
You'd think that would be a red flag to most decent people that her case needed closer investigation, but the shysters at TV Licensing decided to haul her to court anyway.
The woman, who admitted the offence of TV licence evasion, was prosecuted via the Single Justice Procedure.
In her letter of mitigation to the court, she said: "I have been in hospital since June of this year and have been struggling with my mental health for a long period (of) time.
"I did not intentionally not pay my TV licence, but due to my mental state during the time of the offence I forgot to pay and I am sincerely sorry."
Given the circumstances the magistrate dealing with the case decided to step away from their guidelines and impose an absolute discharge. This effectively marks the offence, but there is no other punishment.
However, it is yet another case that should never have made it as far as court.
Following the goon's doorstep interaction with the woman, alarm bells should have been ringing at TV Licensing that there was no public interest in prosecution. Even so, it could sense blood - and an easy result - so decided to press on with prosecution regardless.
TV Licensing told the Evening Standard that it was unaware of the woman's circumstances - not that you can believe a word uttered by TV Licensing.
A TV Licensing PR harlot said: "Our primary aim is to help people stay licensed and avoid prosecution, which is always a last resort.
"We followed established process in this case and asked for further information, however, details the customer provided to the court were not made available to TV Licensing.
"We will now contact the customer to review her case."
Yada, yada, yada - yet more TV Licensing bullshit. We've heard it time and time again. If it's not bullying the dead and bereaved, it's threatening people who have already paid.
There's not a day goes by where TV Licensing, acting fully in accord with its corrupt BBC paymasters, demonstrates how utterly clueless, incompetent and morally void it really is.
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Further anti-BBC reading:
- Is The True Or Did You Hear It On The BBC?, by David Sedgwick (aff. link)
- The BBC: Myth of a Public Service, by Tom Mills (aff. link)
It's about time the powers that be took a serious look at the Single Justice Procedure and the way it functions.
ReplyDeleteIt is designed simply to take the administrative burden off the court system without any regard to the fairness of the outcome or the notion of justice. It simply presumes guilt if the defendant cannot respond or afford to attend a court to defend themselves.
Special attention needs to be given as to which organisations can access this system, Capita appear to use it as a default disregarding any mitigating circumstances. The courts should not be automatically available for companies to generate income, they should be there to uphold law.