His defence is that this is all a conspiracy cooked up between organised crime and the prosecutors. Some lurid tales will be coming out in this trial then!

This story started with the publication of hotmail account usernames and passwords on a website. Here, the BBC claims that it goes much further than that.

This is the 2006 robbery at the Securitas depot in Tonbridge Kent. Alleged main player still in Morocco, from where a request for extradition has been refused. £20 million so far recovered.

SoFarewell thenHouse of Lords…The court is dead, Long live the Supreme Court E.J.Thribb [after Private Eye]

This cant be true…can it? You can sign your CCTV camera up to “internet Eyes” and punters score points for spotting suspicious activities….It’s starting in Stratford on Avon, of all places.

Animal rights organisations emerge in Russia. They support the work of British activists, if you scroll down through the article and have picket British businesses in Moscow. Ameican activist Steven Best has visited them. The things you learn in the Moscow Times!

Scary opinion piece on Russia’s new plea bargaining law and how it gives the silovki even more power.

Article finishes by stating that the Magistrates Association thinks police will abuse such powers. In any case, only 50% are paid “on time”, whatever that means. Needless to say, magistrates want cases to come to court. In which case, the court system needs to speed up.

Thanks Monty.Northern Ohio trumps Texas and Manhattan here. Reasserts Fourth Amendment and attacks colonial British seizures! All about Treasury campaign against charities, mostly linked to Hamas.

Hubris….but I’m sure we shouldnt giggle…