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Bigal · 02-07-2009, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by john royce

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2009-07-02 16:50:30 +0100, "john royce" lid said:

"Clive" wrote in message
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The Police will only visit the accused person IF there is evidence to
prove
beyond reasonable doubt that he/she comitted the offence. If there were
any witnesses or CCTV or even an admission from the person this will be
a start. You think you know who it is, but proving it is another thing.

Would ringing the suspected offender up, and tricking them into *not*
denying that they did it and recording the conversation count as enough
to
get the police to pay a visit to the offender?

It's illegal to record a phone call without telling your interlocutor that
you're doing so.

illegal to who? Lord Keith Vaz recently recorded a private phone
conversation with Mayor Boris Johnson and made the contents publicly known.
Not so illegal then ?

Is anyone actually taking any notice of what I have been saying? Limited intelligence does not mean limited danger... If anything it could be worse. You would perhaps understand what I mean if you had been chased out a house by someone of limited intelligence because someone had told her that I was coming to take her away. That had been used as a threat because of misbehaviour at home and was not the intention at all and was in fact just a routine visit. If the police deal with it, it takes it out of the hands of the allotment holder. Nobody knows why this allotment was vandalised, and believe me I would rather the police find out why. In battle, the brave and the foolhardy are the ones that die. It might end up as absolutely nothing to worry about at all but it rea lly is not worth the risk.
Bigal.