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Thread #70135   Message #1196227
Posted By: greg stephens
28-May-04 - 06:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hook Bloke Aressted
Subject: RE: BS: Hook Bloke Aressted
I hate to get technical, McGrath, but you are quite wrong to say thaqt any evidence used in the USA could be used here. the rules of admissability of evidence are quite different in the two countries (you want to try watching some of their more entertaining trials(??) like OJ Simpson etc on TV. The facts are, I believe, that quite a few bits of stufff (telphone taps,principally) can be used against him in American courts that cant be used here.
    It's all a bit silly really, the man's a joke rather than a master criminal. For a start, he was aparently born Mustafa Kamel. I ask you. And what about those hooks? Most people use artificial hands nowadays. I think he should be kept here as a tourist attraction, like punks with mohicans, or ken Livingstone.