Former Pc is jailed for blackmail

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Former Pc is jailed for blackmail
Newport Crown Court
The court heard how the gang targeted two businessmen

A former police officer who admitted his part in bungled blackmail plots has been jailed for more than two years.

South Wales Police firearms expert Pc Ray Clark, 41, used a replica handgun to help a gang scare their victims out of more than £40,000.

But the scams backfired and Pc Clark was arrested by fellow officers before the gang collected any money.

A judge at Newport Crown Court also jailed two other men for seven years for their part in the blackmail plots.

Allan Coe, 45, and Anthony Holwell, 48, both of Newport, were jailed after their trial in which the former police officer gave evidence against them.

Mark Brogan, 37, of Newport, admitted conspiracy to blackmail. He was given a suspended 12-month sentence and ordered to do 250 hours community work.

Strange how these types of cases don't seem to attract the MSM TV News. If this had been a civilian, this would have been a major news story.

The most telling bit though was this...

The court heard he has recently participated in a video made by South Wales Police to warn new recruits about the dangers of becoming involved with criminals.

You couldn't make this up!!!!

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Comment upon comment upon comment.

I have been following the comments on the BBC Have Your Say site regarding the so called ‘Lockerbie bomber’ Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi story and it has served as a reminded on just how effective education has been in robbing us of our critical thinking skills.

Many, though not all, of the comments reveal how little interest or ability of the average person demonstrates in actually reading the news, researching the evidence and drawing ones own conclusions. They appear to be very comfortable in allowing others to do their thinking for them and to slavishly follow the opinions of the State-Endorsed Lame Stream Media, unable to accept that we are being manipulated.

Of course this was a terrible attack on a civilian aircraft, the loss of life and grief of relatives cannot be compensated by any conviction, but if an innocent man is being punished and vilified, does this not just add to the monstrosity of the crime?

There are many links to further background information, but here are just two.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/290805evidencefaked.htm

(Link to original article no longer works)

http://news.scotsman.com/lockerbie/Lockerbie-evidence-was-tampered-with.3298596.jp

Having just heard that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi has given up his appeal so I thought I would place another link for background information.

http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2009/08/lockerbie-disaster.html

Very interesting comments from South of Scotland SNP MSP Christine Grahame in this article.

 

Here is further background info from the BBC from back in 2000..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/777974.stm

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UK ID Card Database breached by insiders!

Nine sacked for breaching core ID card database | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Oh Dear! Didn't see that coming did we?

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