Can even the most furvent lefty support this?

[R1Geezer]

http://blogs.news.sky...78f-b0a2-f74c2bc40bb3
Christ on a bike, the world's gone loopy, how can anyone imagine this is worth £13k compo?

[ummmm]

The compo was a bit much...but what the employer did was wrong. He bundled him int a van...for all the thief knew he could have been driving somewhere remote to make him dig his own grave..

[Gladeian]

The employer exercised his justifiable power of arrest for the theft and took the thief to the police. The only criticism is that he publicly humiliated him. 13k worth of humiliation? I dont think so. I suspect this case was suggested by one our "ambulance chasing" lawyer friends - it should have been thrown out by the Judge. As previously said this is an indication the way our once sensible justice system has become poisoned by woolly left wing hand-wringers.

[sp1814]

Some posters are referring to £13,000, but as has been pointed out before...the compensation was on £5,000.

The boss was wrong to do what he did, and the story in the link isn't quite fully explained. He was bundled into a van by several men, and apparently 'roughed up'. Stealing is absolutely wrong, and when I was burgled a few years ago, I had fantasies about what I would do to my burglar if I ever caught him, but really - we can't just do what we want to do because we want to do it.

I'd be curious to know what WHY the thief agreed to walk down the street with that sign hanging around his neck. Don't think it would've been voluntary, so I wonder what kind of threats were made?

By the way - the case against him was dropped.

[pa___ul3]

I'm only going from the article and what I read in this morning's metro but it says:
Mr Cremer who runs a floor fitting business in Essex has now been told he must pay at total of £13,00 in compensation and costs to Gilbert. To go to court would have cost him at least £25,000.

I know what the boss done was wrong. It's the amounts involved vs the amounts involved in violent unprovoked attacks which is what's got me boiling.
How can £13k or 'only' £5k be justified for the embarrassment of a thief when genuine victims of violent crimes get a couple of hundred, even a broken bone would only get about £3k compensation max. As it said, it wasn't taken to court so does that mean the thief wasn't charged?
How can anyone have faith in the judicial system?

[Kerosene]

I, too, disagree, but Mr Cremer took the law into his own hands. Had he made his citizen's arrest, then contacted the Police to come and take the suspect into custody, he would have been fine. But he didn't, he overstepped the mark in the eyes of the law, and screaming and shouting about it being "loopy" is no good.

Put yourself in the same situation and pretend to be the thief. You've done wrong, you will get punished in the eyes of the law, but until and unless the law is changed, Mr Cremer simply had no authority to frog march the guy through the streets with a sign hung around his neck. How would you have felt were it you?

[Backdrifter]

Just to add my agreement to some of the above - I believe it was £5000 (the £8000 being costs) and in the account I read the thief said he was bundled into a van and beaten up.

Of course thieving is wrong and of course he should face some retribution but it seems the manager went about it the wrong way. If it's proven I can imagine publicising it to the workforce but not the general public in the way he did.

[modeller]

T

[modeller]

This reminds me of the case last year when the shopkeeper locked up two criminals who were robbing his shop. He locked them up in his store room and rang the police .It ended up with him being charged .

[Coobeastie]

I would have said what the shopkeeper did was a more reasonable response.