Read this article by Lucy Manning - well done to her

[Bonefish Blues]

Sometimes you read something and your mouth drops open ever wider.

This is the story of her receiving a 'dirty phone call' as they used, inaccurately, to be called - it's a real-time unsolicited and unwanted masturbation story, and her pursuit of justice. It took over 2 years to bring the offender to trial. She deserves every credit for her pursuit of this, in the face of what might politely be called incompetence and sloth.

The sting in the tail is jaw-dropping.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgwp4059xgo

[bitchstewie]

I read that this morning.

The more you read the more bonkers it gets

Absolute credit to Manning for having the courage and determination to see it through and you do have wonder without her being a journalist whether a more "normal" victim might have let it go earlier.

[Mammasaid]

I do hope his previous convictions are taken into account

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/4478904...

[Bonefish Blues]

One earnestly hopes so. It's at Magistrates Court, which constrains things somewhat.

[mac96]

Trouble is he seems to have been convicted of one offence, whereas he has repeated it thousands of times. So he can only be sentenced for the one offence. We will see.

[Sheepshanks]

Mammasaid said:

I do hope his previous convictions are taken into account

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/4478904...

The age of that Amjad Khan doesn't match.

His previous obscence calls case is here: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/1187723...

[Ridgemont]

Bonefish Blues said:

Sometimes you read something and your mouth drops open ever wider.

This is the story of her receiving a 'dirty phone call' as they used, inaccurately, to be called - it's a real-time unsolicited and unwanted masturbation story, and her pursuit of justice. It took over 2 years to bring the offender to trial. She deserves every credit for her pursuit of this, in the face of what might politely be called incompetence and sloth.

The sting in the tail is jaw-dropping.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgwp4059xgo

Er…. I can’t quite get my head around the fact that Lancashire police clearly were involved in the previous prosecution of the tt, yet somehow proceeded as if his previous conviction was unknown to them. Don’t they keep records????

[ChocolateFrog]

The level of resistance that the police fold at is comparable to the breaking strain of a wet paper towel.

That and downright incompetence.

[Red9zero]

My wife volunteers for the Samaritans, and you'd be surprised how many of these phone calls they get. It's mainly from men, but often women too. I assume the free phone number means they get their jollies at no cost. She will often wander off and make a cup of tea and then come back and ask if they have finished.

[princeperch]

Jaw dropping incompetence. Everyone's experience and expectations will be different - my experience of the police on the two occasions I have had cause to interact with them as a victim of crime have been similarly disgraceful.

2005 it took 2 years for a drug dealer who punched me in the face and broke my jaw in a random and unprovoked attack to be charged and brought to trial.

2015 - someone threw a bottle at the back of my car in the rotherhide tunnel because he was tail gaiting me and I was going at roughly the speed limit (I was actually going a little above it as it happens). Anyway I got his reg and a full description of him the car and his passengers and after a lot of faffing about the police said they were not gonna pursue it because the car was registered to a flat up north but they couldn't work out exactly where the flat was and it would take too much time to do so.