Potter actor in terrorist shock

AboveTheSalt · 21-07-2009, 18:34

Police seized the camera of Jamie Waylett, who plays Draco Malfoy's sidekick Crabbe in the Harry Potter series after he was arrested under the Terrorism Act for taking a picture of a police patrol as he and his friend John Innis, 20, drove past.

He was arrested after police found pictures of cannabis plants on his camera and has been sentenced to 120 hours of unpaid community service by Westminster Magistrates' Court for growing 10 cannabis plants in tents at his Kilburn home. (BBC online)

Stupid, paranoid, power-crazed policemen abusing the Terrorism Act

Feek · 21-07-2009, 18:36

Once a Slytherin, always a Slytherin

Mark · 21-07-2009, 19:15

Potter actor in breaking the law shocker! I disagree with the whole photography thing of course, because it's just plain stupid. Having said that, toting a collection of photos of your private cannabis plantation is equally stupid and he got what he deserved.

Feek summed the situation up much better, however.

iCraig · 21-07-2009, 19:49

Someone's gotta grow it.

leowyatt · 21-07-2009, 20:04

120 hours is better than the 14 years he could have got

Del Lardo · 21-07-2009, 20:12

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Originally Posted by leowyatt

120 hours is better than the 14 years he could have got

Even low level coke dealers are unlucky to see more than 2 years inside a minimum security 'hotel'

Del Lardo · 22-07-2009, 00:55

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...le-phone-court

Mark · 22-07-2009, 01:10

The Guardian has, shall we say, history on this subject, and as a result I certainly wouldn't consider them impartial. Purely on face value the officers acted other than in accordance with the law, but I'd first ask what we're not being told.

AboveTheSalt · 22-07-2009, 08:10

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Originally Posted by Mark

The Guardian has, shall we say, history on this subject, and as a result I certainly wouldn't consider them impartial.

Here you go then, The Sun

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The pair were detained in April under the Terrorism Act after Waylett took a photo of a police patrol as they drove past.

and that other fellow-traveller of the Grauniad, the Daily Moron

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The tubby 19-year-old actor was arrested in April this year after police stopped him and a friend in an Audi car in London. The officers thought he'd been taking photos of them, the court heard.

Mark · 22-07-2009, 16:38

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Originally Posted by AboveTheSalt

Here you go then, The Sun and that other fellow-traveller of the Grauniad, the Daily Moron

Neither of which are relevant to my point, which was directed solely at Del Lardo's Grauniad article. Yours was from BBC News - a source that is somewhat less 'OMGWTF! police brutality!'

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Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Potter actor in breaking the law shocker! I disagree with the whole photography thing of course, because it's just plain stupid. Having said that, toting a collection of photos of your private cannabis plantation is equally stupid and he got what he deserved. Feek summed the situation up much better, however.

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Del Lardo Absinthe Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cambridge Posts: 2,539	http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...le-phone-court

22-07-2009, 01:10	#8
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	The Guardian has, shall we say, history on this subject, and as a result I certainly wouldn't consider them impartial. Purely on face value the officers acted other than in accordance with the law, but I'd first ask what we're not being told.