Juggling With EggsWill historians look back and wonder why the police focused their efforts on Quaker Meeting Houses and never Tufton Street or the private clubs of Mayfair?
"We cannot get into a situation where groups planning criminal acts can escape police action simply by booking rooms in certain venues”
Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman
I refer you to my previous point.
https://news.sky.com/story/15-activists-arrested-over-mass-shoplifting-campaign-plot-13515889
Gentleman’s clubs have actually been belatedly acknowledged as crime scenes. Chris Pincher’s sexual assaults at the Carlton Club brought down the Tory government, but no criminal proceedings.
Former Tory MP, Patrick Spencer also allegedly carried out sexual assaults at the Groucho club…but we’re still waiting for justice to be served and he still sits in Parliament.
Does the Met serve the interests of gay and female victims of crime?
Steven Heywood@JugglingWithEggs
No commercial activities were harmed in the course of those misdemeanours.
In these enlightened times we can be hung for thinking about stealing a loaf of bread while well-heeled sex offenders get the blind eye.