Thwaites Brewery Trashed

[Saisonator]

It appears to me since travelers have attained minority status, the police are prone to pussy foot around them in case they are branded racist. Sounds a similar affliction that has helped exacerbate other cases I could mention up and down the country.
What an utterly disgraceful episode the owners and staff at Thwaites have had to go through.
The police should hang their heads in shame at their own ineptitude.
As for the travelers, they see the police ignore the smaller stuff like trashing my local park, defecating on the field when public toilets are open 24 hours a day and leaving a massive pile of garden clearance rubbish.
Then they feel they can get away with more serious crimes like slavery, fraud, physical attacks and wrecking a brewery while parked in the grounds.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...on-100-travellers-ruined-just-three-days.html

 

[marshbrewer]

I read this in the Lancashire press a while a go. What I don't understand is this - trespass in commercial property is a criminal, not civil, offense. So why on earth were the police 'negotiating' with them? Even if the criminal damage wasn't apparent when they were trying to get rid of them (although accounts from staff suggest that it was) they should have been nicked. If I was Twaites I'd be pretty peeved as they have had to shut the brewery permanently, ahead of schedule.

Just another sad story that reinforcers my mistrust of todays politicallised police, I'm afraid.

 

[Ken L]

One law for all.
It's really that simple.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Although no one has the right to break into someones premises this smacks of sensationalism from the daily fail, how many windows were broken maybe it was one where they broke in, how many had taken a dump was it really "strewn around" and they chose to pour the beer away in case it was contaminated not because it was, i do not condone what they have done i am merely showing how much i dislike that paper.

Workers returned after the bank holiday weekend to ransacked desks, smashed windows and human waste strewn around the yard. Copper wiring had been stolen, and there were fears the beer stocks had been ‘contaminated’.

 

[marshbrewer]

If you don't trust the fail, the same report was in the local Lancashire press a couple of weeks ago, and was reported on the Beeb, including staff intimidation, etc.

 

[Saisonator]

Although no one has the right to break into someones premises this smacks of sensationalism from the daily fail, how many windows were broken maybe it was one where they broke in, how many had taken a dump was it really "strewn around" and they chose to pour the beer away in case it was contaminated not because it was, i do not condone what they have done i am merely showing how much i dislike that paper.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-44288992

BBC sanitised version.

Do you seriously think that they could risk selling the beer if these kinds of degenerates had unsupervised access to the brewery?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

BBC sanitised version.

They are both as bad as each other.

 

[BeerCat]

The Police are utterly pathetic Why would they negotiate with people who have destroyed a brewery.

 

[marshbrewer]

They are both as bad as each other.

How about this then, or is the Lancashire Telegraph a hot bed of anti traveller hatred as well?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I haven't accused either of "anti traveller hatred" the word i used was sensationalism in the mails case, the big question is why were they moved on and not arrested.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Update -

Supt Julian Platt‏ @julian_platt
Six further arrests made today in response to the Thwaites Brewery damage and burglary last month. @LancsPolice #TacOps supported!

 

[Oneiroi]

The Police are utterly pathetic Why would they negotiate with people who have destroyed a brewery

Because due process is important. It's better for the land owners that the police facilitate the travellers moving on while the investigation continues than have them stay there until it wraps up. They also can't/shouldn't punish a whole group of people for actions that may have just been done by a few individuals, until or unless they can prove otherwise.

 

[Saisonator]

Update -

Supt Julian Platt‏ @julian_platt
Six further arrests made today in response to the Thwaites Brewery damage and burglary last month. @LancsPolice #TacOps supported!

I love it!

 

[Saisonator]

Looking at the charges, it makes me wonder if the police, by leaving them to get on with it were giving these 'Do As You Likeys' enough rope to hang themselves.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Thwaites-Brewery-said-leave-given-20-000.html