[lbo-talk] Senior Judge charged....

[Mike Ballard]

There was this Monty Python movie on TV yesterday, clips from their pasts shows
sewn together to make "And Now For Something Completely Different".  One clip
involved a guy in a trenchcoat walking down a London sidewalk, opening his coat
to women as he passed them.  The puncline was when he turned to the camera and
you saw that he had a sign pinned to his clothed body which read, "Boo!"

Regards,
Mike B)

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James Sturcke and agencies
Friday March 2, 2007
Guardian Unlimited <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>  

One of Britain's most senior judges was charged today with exposure, British
Transport Police said. 

Lord Justice Sir Stephen Richards, who sits in the court of appeal, was
arrested on January 19 after a complaint from a female train passenger that
a man had exposed himself to her.

A transport police spokesman said Sir Stephen had been charged tonight with
two counts of exposure relating to two separate incidents on trains in
south-west London last year.

Sir Stephen, who lives in Wimbledon, south-west London, has been bailed to
appear at City of Westminster magistrates court on March 8. 

One incident is said to have taken place on a train in the London area last
October. Sir Stephen, 56, who is married with three childen, was arrested
after an undercover operation.

In a statement, the Judicial Communications Office said: "The lord
chancellor and the lord chief justice have been made aware of the charges
against Lord Justice Richards. The judge will not be sitting pending the
outcome of the proceedings.

"The lord chancellor and the lord chief justice do not comment on individual
cases before the courts."

Sir Stephen was called to the bar in 1975 and became a high court judge in
1997 before becoming a lord justice of appeal in 2005. He has also served as
deputy chairman of the boundary commission for Wales.

In 2005, he sat in the divisional court of the high court and presided over
the appeal into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian man shot
dead at Stockwell tube station on July 22 2005 by police officers who had
mistaken him for a terror suspect.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2025514,00.html

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