Rapist sues landlady from prison
A hairdresser has said she hopes to appeal after a convicted rapist sued her from jail when she cleared out the flat he rented above one of her salons.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
"First I was upset, then angry, to think that someone like him can actually use public money to sue somebody else and basically make money out of his crime,"
ReplyDeleteKnee jerk, knee jerk, the same old bleat, the law isn't for "people like him". Why is it the media persists in helping to reinforce this increasingly common attitude that anyone who has been convicted of an offence has no right to any protection from the the law and/or the judicial system.
What has someone's character or history got to do with the way in which the law applies to them? One law for all I was always taught.
However cold Ms. Goymer's blood might have run, if that is her grounds for appeal, I hope no appeal is entertained.
When ANY tenant neglegts to pay the rent their belongings are shifted to make way for the next tenant. You can't argue with that. Business is business.
ReplyDeleteNEGLECTS, even....
ReplyDeleteLegally Ron (and on a practical level you make perfect sense, and I quite agree that business is indeed business) I am not sure that non-payment of rent constitutes grounds for eviction. Unless there is a court order I don't think the owner is legally empowered to unilaterally terminate the rental agreement, evict the tenant and take custody of said tenants belongings.
ReplyDeleteWhat really annoyed me here though was the reference to "someone like him" as though legal aid has to be somehow deserved on a very subjective moral scale imposed by the self appointed righteous.