NightJack is a police detective in England. He sees the ugly side of life. He wrote about it anonymously then got exposed. He was betrayed by criminals of The Times Getting the Orwell Prize made him public, too public. So now he does not write but the truth is still out there. Why did he get aggravation? Read through the names he mentions, count up the Pakistanis who are bent as nine bob notes and know. Telling the truth is a subversive act. Telling the world that Pakistanis are vicious slave holders didn't help either - see The Face Behind The Face; nor writing about the Evil Poor.
From http://nightjack2.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/acting-in-my-clients-best-interests or Bent Lawyers, Bent Pakistanis. Then there are Bent Coppers
Acting In My Client's Best Interests
Solicitors wonder why we worry about mobile phones in private consultations. They think we are being overly suspicious of them manufacturing a defence when they start representing every suspect in a multi handed job. They are outraged if we suggest that a pre-prepared statement might just represent what they have told the client to say rather than what the client said to them. They wonder why we don’t just accept it when assault victims come in with carefully and professionally worded statements of retraction. Tough. By and large, we, the cops trust you about as much as you trust us, perhaps a bit less.Lets start with “the daddy” of all bent briefs, come on down Naveen Sagar. He got 14 years for being in effect the house solicitor for a Somali drug gang. His job was cooking up defences, framing detectives, taking photographs of the jury in an attempted murder case where he represented the defendant. Oh and he was also screwing the system for fictitious interpreter fees.
On a more passive note, say hello to Belfast based Gavin David McCartan a conveyancing solicitor who received a cash deposit of £70,250 for the £105,000 property. McCartan pleaded guilty to the charge of failing to disclose information on 8 January 2001 in that he suspected Mr. Walsh to be involved in drug trafficking. The Judge, Mr. Justice Higging, said that the public was entitled to expect officers of the court to be “beyond reproach” and that solicitors who became suspicious of money laundering “have a duty to tell the police”.
Another one in bed with his clients was Yasin Mohamed. He helped dispose of some of the cheques stolen in a raid at Heathrow Airport. He was arrested after selling £15,000 of stolen cheques to an undercover police officer. At Manchester Crown Court, Mohamed pleaded guilty to conspiracy to handle stolen goods. The court heard he will be struck off the lawyers' register. Two brothers and former clients of Mohamed – social worker Mohammed Afzal Dad and Mohammed Akram Dad, admitted similar charges and were given 240 hours community service.
Oh no, there was a social worker in the mix.
For straight up bent and obviously very very comfortable being bent there is David Lancaster who was convicted of inventing stories to get a man off a drugs supply offence unaware that he was an investigative reporter telling him a cover tale. Lancaster was told by Judge Graham Cottle at Exeter Crown Court: “You broke every rule in the book in a breathtaking display of unprofessional conduct.” The jury found he had provided the reporter with false explanations which had a tendency to pervert the course of a police investigation, and advised him to use them with intent to do the same. This guy was also a stipe.
Want an alibi, ask a solicitor. A lawyer who provided a “serious criminal” with a false alibi for his High Court trial has been jailed for five years. Conveyancing solicitor Shahid Pervez, was branded by the judge, Lord Hardie, as a disgrace to his profession, his family and the Asian community. He told Pervez: “You have pled guilty to an offence which strikes at the heart of justice by committing perjury in support of a false alibi for someone charged with a serious offence for whom a trial was fixed. Not sure why the Noble Lord brought race into it but hey ho.
Showing no hesitation at getting his feet dirty in an international fake marriage racket was Blackburn lawyer Robert Pickles [ Run by a Pakistani Ismail Pirbhai ]. He was told by the judge that he had brought shame on himself and on his profession. He was one of three people sentenced at Preston Crown Court for their part in the fake marriage ring which stretched from Blackburn to Bombay. Pickles pleaded guilty to two charges of assisting in the fake marriages.
Do solicitors ever smuggle stuff in to their clients? What do you think? Kate Dooley hid heroin and cannabis in her boots and knickers before going to the prison, claiming she had a legal appointment with mobster Scott Jeffries, Manchester Crown Court heard. A sniffer dog detected drugs on her as she underwent security checks and she produced packages of drugs with a street value of £1,000.She had been a trainee for 18 months when she became attracted to 20-year-old Jeffries.
The gangland thug was awaiting trial for a series of armed robberies plus a dramatic car chase in which he laughed as he mowed down a motorcycle cop. He was jailed for 10 years in February. The Judge said “It is very distressing for anybody to see a young woman of your type and background standing in the dock facing a substantial period of imprisonment. You have lost just about everything you have been working for.”Would that Kate was alone, but no solicitor Daniela Scotece hid cannabis in her bra and tried to smuggle it into a police custody suite. Daniela Scotece, 31, hid the drugs in an attempt to get them to her client, Emanuel Samuels. She was sentenced to 15 months at Derby Crown Court. Judge Andrew Hamilton said she had abused her position of trust. She was caught by custody officers at the Nottingham Bridewell Suite on August 31 last year, with the aid of a sniffer dog.
Got to love those sniffer dogs.
Of course some are smuggling stuff out of jail as well. Poor Maya Devani, was found guilty of smuggling a letter out of a London jail to help a gunman accused of shooting a trial witness. She was convicted at the Old Bailey and her client, Timothy Merchant, was convicted of two charges of attempted murder and was remanded for pre-sentence reports. Devani was representing Merchant, who was being held in Belmarsh Prison, south-east London, facing the two attempted murder charges after a street shooting. Mark Dennis, the prosecutor, said Devani was involved “in a dishonest attempt to create a false defence” for Merchant by leaving the prison with his “written instructions” for an alibi to distance himself from the getaway car. Devani, denied attempting to pervert the course of justice. She told the court she had not known what was in the letter until after she was charged and that she had no reason to put her career at risk to help Merchant. The jury didn’t believe her.
It's a small but illustrative sample. I know there are lots of bent cop stories out there as well but that's not my point. In fact for the sake of argument, bent cops do just as much damage. But instead of moving the argument back to us, lets talk about you for a change.