#paulclarke : his lawyer speaks on Radio 4
Lionel Blackman is Paul Clarke's lawyer.
Who's Paul Clarke? Where have you been? Over the weekend there was a twitter storm over Paul Clarke, who found a gun, took it to his local police station and was arrested and now faces five years in prison.
Mr Blackman spoke to Eddie Mair on yesterday's PM program on BBC Radio 4:
The sometimes-tenacious Eddie Mair didn't really seem to be able rev up his indignation much - maybe BBC lawyers were waving through the glass at him - and seemed to be itching to move on to something 'lighter', perhaps about a skateboarding duck.
It has to be said, Mr Blackman didn't substantially add to the sum of existing knowledge in this dismal case, other than to reveal, somewhat vaguely, that Mr Clarke had previously been caught in possession of a cattle prod. A cattle prod?
This does lend a tiny, tiny amount of weight to the sadly-common argument "'eee deserved it - eee's a shitbag / a repeat offender / a moron".
But, again, do any of those faults merit 5 years in prison? CF doesn't think so.
++ update ++ comments at the original story have been disabled for 'legal reasons' . Hmmmm....
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