Life in Gordon Brown's cool Britannia:

From the Daily Mail:

A one-legged Royal Navy veteran has been arrested after he rescued his neighbour from two men.

Stephen Beerling, 52, dialled 999 and went to help his female neighbour after hearing her screaming during the night.

But the have-a-go hero was then arrested himself when officers spotted a rusty truncheon he had put in his pocket for self-defence.

Mr Beerling, a Liberal Democrat councillor, was arrested, locked up for 12 hours and charged with possessing an offensive weapon.

He told of his ordeal after learning the Crown Prosecution Service had decided to drop the charge against him.

'For me the blame lies entirely with the CPS - I just cannot understand why they wanted to press charges.'

Mr Beerling said the drama began at 2.30am on March 19 when he was woken by screams from his next door neighbour and her baby, and the sound of men shouting.

He called police and strapped on the false leg he has worn since his leg was amputated in March 2004, when he was still serving with the Royal Navy.

Aware he was probably outnumbered, he picked up a telescopic truncheon and put it in his back pocket in case he needed it for protection.

Mr Beerling then raced downstairs and went outside to help, and said his neighbour was being harassed by two men.

His case was due at Maidstone Crown Court this week but on Wednesday the CPS decided to drop the charge.

The former sailor said: 'I could not believe what was happening. When they tried to open the truncheon, it was all rusted up. I've had it for years and it's just been sitting in a drawer...

A police spokeswoman said the two men arrested with Mr Beerling were charged with affray, but the charges were later dropped.

One of the men was also charged with possession of cannabis and was given a £100 fine by Maidstone magistrates.
**Well there you go, attempt to help members of the community and you get arrested. After all that is the job of the police - even if they are not there. Far better than people be murdered, raped, assaulted and have their property taken than take the law into their own hands.

As for the CPS well when one considers that many of the cases they try fall apart due to CPS cock ups, it makes a perverse logical sense to find easier victims to attack and so justify in their view the reason for the CPS.

Oh and I am sure that a £100 fine that the scumfuck probably won't pay will be enough to put that chap on the straight and narrow road, convince him to give up his life of petty crime, get a job and become a respected member of society.

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