Alan Ferrier
France just jailed its former president for illegally funding his 2007 presidential campaign.
https://news.sky.com/story/too-late-to-investigate-farage-election-expenses-essex-police-say-13485447
Too late to investigate Farage election expenses, Essex Police say

Allegations that Nigel Farage broke spending rules happened more than a year ago and can't be probed, the force has said. Election financing crimes must be reported within a year

Sky
Dec 21 at 4:25pmWeb
Show threadBob ThomsonDec 21
@alanferrier at least there won’t be a day to day diary book of Nige’s time behind bars like Sarko’s.
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKDec 21

@bobthomson70 @alanferrier

UK has a statute of limitations for many offences, France does not - the French law did also mean that organisers of a relatively harmless (but noisy) outdoor rave in the late 1990s got nicked in the 2010s and fined tens of thousands of Euros (and some also served jail time)

Show threadBob ThomsonDec 21

@vfrmedia @alanferrier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limitation_periods_in_the_United_Kingdom

Limitation periods in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

Show threadBob ThomsonDec 21
@vfrmedia @alanferrier to me it would make more sense to have a longer period than a year. Maybe more like 5 years.
Show threadFrantic 🇬🇧 + 🇪🇺Dec 21
@alanferrier Essex police, say no more.
Show threadBaron VonskinnbackDec 21
@alanferrier the Essex police are the reform party, as is with all police forces in the UK, it is rare to find a left wing police officer...
Show threadJean Helou ⌨️Dec 21
@alanferrier don't worry he was jailed for less than 3 weeks and is currently resting from the stress of jail and house arrest by taking a vacation halfway across the globe. After which his house arrest will resume until such time he wants to go somewhere else.
Show threadToni AittoniemiDec 21
@alanferrier I would seriously look into bribes / personal threats to staff here. Seriously! 🤔
Show threadMarcos DioneDec 21
@alanferrier he stayed 20 days in. He's out now.
Show threadtj usiyanDec 21
@alanferrier Yeah this seems like a situation where everyone should have looked askance at the person suggesting a strict one year statute on this. It was *obviously* someone or someone’s planning to do dirt
Show threadAntJBroDec 21

@alanferrier so, if it had been say, a Green candidate what are the chances the story would be that investigation by Essex police found the allegations to be true but because of the one year time limit no further action - a very different spin

I’m just saying….

Show threadamaliaDec 22
@alanferrier Another Trump.
Show threadKevin RussellDec 25

@alanferrier

Farage to Old Baily