"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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from "Duncan Heenan" contains these words:

My understanding is that once a road had been adopted by a Local
Authority
or The Highways Authority, everyone has a right of access to and over it.

Yes.

Criminal intent relates to the intention to commit a crime, not the
location
of the person having that intent.

Yes.

Am I wrong? If so, why? And why should I believe you?

Yes, but you are wrong in assuming that you have any right to use the
public highway in the commission of a criminal act. The public highway
may lawfully be used for passing and repassing, but may not be so used
unlawfully.

I have never heard of a public highway being used as a weapon, and I'm not
sure how else it could one could 'use it in the commission of a criminal
act'. A Public highway is used to travel or dwell on. They are not criminal
acts. I think you are confused. If you are arrested for doing something
unlawfully, it is what you are doing which will be unlawful, not the fact
that you might be doing it in the road - apart perhaps for some acts which
are legal in private but not in public.



You don't have to believe me, but in my part-time life as a very
part-time gamekeeper I have to know these things. However, you can look
them up using the excellent references provided in the thread.

Don't believe things just because they're on the internet:

A little learning is a dangerous thing
Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain
And drinking largely sobers us again.