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I think you meant formally, although it might be the case that it is too late to appeal the sentence....Hercule Parrot wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2019 10:27 amJudge Nigel Van Der Bijl said if Mete wanted to appeal the sentence he would have to formerly instruct lawyers and contact the Court of Appeal.
Join the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign!The quotation is verbatim from a Kent Online and unless corrected subsequently is their misinterpretation.Arthur Rubin wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2019 7:37 pmI think you meant formally, although it might be the case that it is too late to appeal the sentence....Hercule Parrot wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2019 10:27 amJudge Nigel Van Der Bijl said if Mete wanted to appeal the sentence he would have to formerly instruct lawyers and contact the Court of Appeal.
That was an earlier case with sentencing in 2014 and he was having his suspended sentence activated because of non-compliance with the community service. The sentence was handed down in 2012 so he would have had more chance of being wanked off by a snowman than getting anybody to give him the time of day with an appeal two years out of date.Arthur Rubin wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2019 7:37 pmI think you meant formally, although it might be the case that it is too late to appeal the sentence....Hercule Parrot wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2019 10:27 amJudge Nigel Van Der Bijl said if Mete wanted to appeal the sentence he would have to formerly instruct lawyers and contact the Court of Appeal.
Wasn't it only telling the court in that case that he was dead as an attempt to avoid prosecution? No worse than saying he wasn't the person being sought to be prosecuted, although in a more exotic way. I don't think he did anything else but even if he did, I doubt it would be worth prosecuting.
It's on a par with him answering the door and saying "I don't know him, he's not here. I haven't seen him and I don't know where he is". He didn't actually make a register his death and in doing somake a false declaration; now that might be worth pursuing. However seeing as he is banged up anyway it's unlikely that any minor cahrges would be deemed in the public interest.
Her sentence?A Faversham woman who went on the run in the hope of derailing a trial involving her family is behind bars.
A reminder of what all the fuss was about;Lucy Mete had owned land on which an illegal dumping ground was run. But when her father, James, 57, and a sister, Billie, went on trial at Maidstone Crown Court, the 27-year-old went missing.
Now after handing herself into police after 10 months she has been sent to jail for 30 weeks.Mete began sobbing and screaming after realising she wouldn't receive a suspended sentence like sister Billie.
Her screams could be heard in the court at Maidstone for several minutes after Judge Martin Huseyin passed sentence for the breach of bail.
He had heard how Billie Mete, 27, who was sitting in the public gallery, had managed the facility with her and sister on land adjoining Thirwell Farm in Drove Lane, Hernhill.
She should ask the 'adviser' for a bit of a refund.Lucy was found guilty in her absence of breaking environmental law following a six-day trial last year.
The Environment Agency prosecuted her father and his daughters after discovering 135 lorry-loads of soil and builders’ waste were being dumped and treated on the land between 2014 and 2016.
The work needed an environmental permit which it didn’t have.Lucy had owned part of Thirwell Farm, where she also lived, allowing her father to use the farm to deposit and treat the materials against the law.
In a letter to the judge Lucy claimed she had been given told by "a paid adviser" she could wreck the trial by staying away.
Deadly, it would seem.The judge said he accepted her adviser - who was paid £400 a time - was "malignant and manipulative and unqualified" and had tried to disrupt the trial.
He said because of that he would reduce her sentence for both the illegal tipping and the breach of bail.
But he told her that she had owned part of the land and was fully aware of the illegal activity.
She then sobbed: "I've had no benefit whatsoever."
After passing the immediate 30-week sentence, she said: "Are you serious?"
Looks like just the dad - :Scum of the family :Bag - to be dealt with. He clearly gives not a shit about the fate of his two adult children.As she was reluctantly led away, Billie shouted: "Why wasn't it suspended. I want to appeal."
Prosecutor Gordon Starkes told the court the trial had cost the Environmental Agency more than £40,000.
Chris Back, environment manager for the Environment Agency in Kent, said after the trial: "This was a deliberate breach of the law.
"James, Lucy and Billie Mete all knew their actions amounted to a criminal offence, but still allowed waste to be dumped, kept and treated at Thirwell Farm for a number of years with no permit from the Environment Agency."
The jury had heard how officers from the Environment Agency and police raided the farm following a number of reports of waste being tipped there. Officers found many large piles of waste soils and rubble, as well as machinery for processing it.
During the visit, environment officers turned back a lorry that had arrived to tip waste.
Both the lorry driver and the owner of a building supplies firm gave statements to the Environment Agency saying James Mete was their main contact at the farm.
On 10 July last year Billie Mete was sentenced to six-weeks in prison, suspended for two years.
She was also given 28 days in jail for breaching the terms of her bail by not attending court for sentence in March, but walked free from court having already served more than half this amount in custody.
James Mete still has to be dealt with.
Would I be wrong in thinking that, like Michael Gove, he'd had enough of 'experts'?The judge said he accepted her adviser - who was paid £400 a time - was "malignant and manipulative and unqualified" and had tried to disrupt the trial.