Former Journalist Acquitted Of Drink-Driving Charges

Stock photo of magistrate's court

Former journalist Sir Christopher Belcher and his wife were today acquitted of all charges related to two separate drink-driving incidents last month.

Sir Christopher Belcher

In one incident, Sir Christopher had been pulled over after driving at over 120mph on the M234 and attempting to evade pursuing police cars. A few days later, he drove his car through a shop window in Halliton.

In both cases, he was breathalysed and found to be four times the drink-driving limit. His wife, Lady Nadine Belcher, was also accused of assault and resisting arrest, biting a police officer on one occasion and having to be forcibly restrained from doing so on another.

Sir Christopher was knighted for his services to journalism in 1982 but has since retired, his work now being confined to occasional freelance work for local newspapers.

Lady Nadine Belcher

Speaking on Sir Christopher’s behalf in Chattingham magistrate’s court, his lawyer stated that Sir Christopher was a notable benefactor of his local community, a donor to the Conservative Party and also Grand Master of his local freemason’s lodge, whose members (as he reminded the magistrates) comprise of the local Chief Constable, several senior Conservative politicians and also the magistrates currently sitting on the bench before them.

After a brief discussion, the magistrates agreed to dismiss all charges, expressing surprise that they had been brought at all given the circumstances. On an unrelated note, they also said that they “would be seeing Sir Christopher in the Lodge for drinkies tonight as usual.”

“We trust that the prompt action taken by Midway’s police officers will serve as a deterrent to all would-be drink-drivers,” said a Midway police spokesman afterwards, “unless, of course, you have all of the right connections in which case, it’s ‘Get Out Of Jail Free”…”


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Kent’s Greatest Prick Ever wrote:

It is reassuring to see that the British justice system is still capable of making common-sense judgements in the face of increasingly woke, snowflake leftism. If rich and well-connected people such as Sir Christopher and myself were to be held to the same laws as the common peasantry, then society as we know it would cease to function. What is the point of privilege if the law of the land is applied to rich people? Fortunately, we have a government that fully understands this basic tenet of English society.

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Grey Mondeo Man wrote:

This is an appalling miscarriage of justice. It just goes to show that rich and well-connected people can do exactly what they like in today’s Tory-dominated society, without fear of any consequences.

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Kent’s Greatest Prick Ever replied:

Of course it does, you silly boy. The sooner you grow up and learn that “privilege” means exactly that, the happier your betters will be.

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          David Simile the Second replied:

A typically stupid reply from Gay Morono Man, a typically stupid remoaning socialist La**or-supporting woke snowflake. Like all lazy parasitic leftist scum, he is a blight on society and as such is unable to hold any sort of discussion without resorting to vile, frothing insults. Crawl away and die, you K**r S**rmer bum-boy.

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Pseudocreem 2 wrote:

Comrades, do not vote in next elections because all political parties are the same. If no-one vote your Tories will boss, which good news for all big Russian money in UK and dear Mr. Putin.

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