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Perhaps a job for our new government?  Finding things for these kids to do?

Perhaps a job for our new government?  Finding things for these kids to do?

is that near stoke st gregory?

Perhaps a job for our new government?  Finding things for these kids to do?

Offences against the Person Act 1861

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33. Casting stone, &c. upon a railway carriage, with intent to endanger the safety of any person therein.
Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously throw, or cause to fall or strike, at, against, into, or upon any engine, tender, carriage, or truck used upon any railway, any wood, stone, or other matter or thing, with intent to injure or endanger the safety of any person being in or upon such engine, tender, carriage, or truck, or in or upon any other engine, tender, carriage, or truck of any train of which such first-mentioned engine, tender, carriage, or truck shall form part, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable to be kept in penal servitude for life

This part of the act would appear to be still in force.

1 Abolition of penal servitude, hard labour and prison divisions

(1)No person shall be sentenced by a court to penal servitude; and every enactment conferring power on a court to pass a sentence of penal servitude in any case shall be construed as conferring power to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding the maximum term of penal servitude for which a sentence could have been passed in that case immediately before the commencement of this Act. ...

Yes it is relex ;)

I remember travelling on a bus a little while back to Stoke St Gregory village hall from Taunton (Stagecoach Service IIRC) for a conference... The Bus actually takes you just the other side of Athelney Level Crossing, before backtracking and then taking the turning down towards the village hall.

Unfortunately the Criminal Justice Act 1948 says this:However the life part still stands, unless someone can find something to the contrary.

I've been on a bus just outside Havant where some local yobs chucked a brick through the window.  The window smashed and the brick landed on the seat.  Fortunately there was no-one sat nearby.  Very scary incident that could have been much more dangerous.

Perhaps a job for our new government?  Finding things for these kids to do?

Slightly related, but I've been on a Stagecoach Devon 155 (between Exeter, Tiverton & Barnstaple) service which had one of its top windows broken, not by a youth, but by a low tree branch, the driver had to stop near South Molton to push the glass out. It amazes me that they use double deckers on some of these rural routes, when First North Devon operated the route with the 346, they only ever used single deckers, but in those days it was only a Barnstaple-Tiverton service.

Sorry for taking this further off-topic but I was on plenty 346es which were double-deckers (next part of the story would say that these double-deckers were empty with only three passengers betwixt Tivvy and SM while the small single deckers that they used to use as well before they were phased out used to be packed to standing for the entire journey! But I shan't go there yet...)

A pair of youths have been arrested in connection with an incident where a brick was hurled into the cab of a moving train.
The brick was thrown from a bridge at the train shortly after it left Swanwick station, heading towards Southampton, at about 4pm on Tuesday. It smashed the window and injured the driver's eye.

On arrival at Southampton Central station the driver was taken to hospital and later discharged.

Anyone who saw the incident or has information should contact British Transport Police on 0800 405040.

British Transport Police (BTP) detectives have arrested a third youth after a brick thrown at a train in Bursledon shattered the driver^s cab window, leaving him with glass in his eyes.

The incident took place around 4pm last Tuesday, 25 May.

After making local inquiries and searching the area immediately after the incident, police arrested a 15-year-old from Sarisbury Green on suspicion of endangering safety.

A second youth ^ a 13-year-old from Sarisbury Green - was arrested the next day, Wednesday 26 May, while a third youth, a 12-year-old, also from Sarisbury Green, was arrested on Monday, 31 May.

All three have been released on police bail pending further enquiries and will return on Monday, 14 and Wednesday, 16 June.

The 2.33pm Brighton to Southampton Central Southern service was passing through the Lower Swanwick area around 4pm when an object was thrown at the driver^s window, shattering the glass and leaving him with glass in his eyes.

The driver, a 43-year-old from Bognor Regis, West Sussex, was taken to hospital by paramedics from the South Central Ambulance Service.

After attending an Eye Clinic at Southampton General Hospital he was discharged later that evening and returned home.

Detective Constable Matt Bevan, based at Southampton BTP station on Blechynden Terrace, said: "This was an extremely foolish and dangerous act that has resulted in a man being injured. We urge those who think that throwing stones and other objects at trains is fun to think about the consequences of their actions which, in this case, could have been much worse.^

I've been on a bus just outside Havant where some local yobs chucked a brick through the window.  The window smashed and the brick landed on the seat.  Fortunately there was no-one sat nearby.  Very scary incident that could have been much more dangerous.

Perhaps a job for our new government?  Finding things for these kids to do?