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THREE JUDGES IN Britain have been sacked for watching pornography in their offices.
The three were officially removed from their jobs today following an investigation into the allegation that they had all viewed pornographic material via their official IT accounts.
A spokesperson for the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office, which carried out the investigation, said that the material did not include images of children or any other illegal content.
“This was an inexcusable misuse of their judicial IT accounts and wholly unacceptable conduct for a judicial office holder,” the spokesperson said.
The three were named as Timothy Bowles, a district court judge, Warren Grant, an immigration judge, and Peter Bullock, a deputy district court judge.
A fourth judge was also found to have viewed similar inappropriate material in his office and was due to be sacked but resigned before the conclusion of the disciplinary process.
The spokesperson said that the judges were not linked in any way.
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All rise!
They were probably examining the evidence….
They got a stiff sentence
T*ssers.
No wonder justice is blind….
I was like WOW when i seen the headline , then I realised its in Britain not ireland .. Knew it was too good to be true . We let off a judge who was caught with child porn .
There’s not a judge in the world that would convict them…
Call me old fashioned but I’d much rather they relieved themselves in perfectly natural ways like this than keep it in until they end up finding inappropriate outlet for their pent-up frustrations, like some priests did.
And you Neal…
I think they could have kept it in until they went home though. Work isn’t really the place.
The devil makes work for idle hands.
Roisin, maybe they’re not pluged in (the internet) at home
Warren bowels bullock
Sounds like a porn alright.
Compare this to what happened here when a judge was ALLEGEDLY (for libel purposes) caught with child porn images on a personal computer…lots of foot dragging until he amassed enough ‘service’ to obtain a pension.
That’s story sickened my arse. He escaped off with his circa 140k pensions.
That “irish” judge who didn’t get sacked must have had some dirt on the establishment.
Nope.
It’s just almost impossible to remove a judge.
It was done with the best will in the world to isolate them from political pressure, but it’s incredible that it also protects them when they very much should be sacked.
There was an ” error ” on his arrest warrant .
The ‘error’ was that the search warrant lasts for 7 days from the date of the warrant. The Trial Judge decided that 7 days does not mean 7 consecutive periods of 24 hrs but means 7 calender days. So if you got a search warrant at 1pm on monday it would expire at 23.59hrs on the following Sunday.
Well pointed out Mary.
No mention of this case either for a long time
We get it on our computers, they get it in their office. It’s a them and us world.
Well that ain’t gonna happen here. We allow people to get away with all sorts of illegal goings on. The judge and guards have been caught and nothing, take a look at the other article here where a bishop was charged with knowing get about child abuse, as did many bishops here and not one charged with or imprisoned for these vial crimes of allowing priests to move around and spread the abuse. We are far to PC for these people.
@ Christine. .. “Not a great idea,to be fair” !!.
10/10 :)
Well spotted Mike…
Brilliantly phrased, Christine.
We promote people like this on to state boards.
It’ll never stand up in court
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