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The Bijan Ebrahimi murder trial and prosecution of a PCSO and police officer, may start a process of police officers taking the needs of those falsely accused seriously. Bijan sought help from police officers in Bristol, fearful of vigilantes; he was treated by the police as a 'liar and nuisance'. It starts to bring home the polices impotence to support those falsely accused of being paedophiles. Bijan's limited contact with the police was when he was arrested for a 'breach of the peace'. This measure (according to court records) was to enable the police to 'shut him up' and quell his use of police time.

There have been countless reported incidents of vigilantes attacking property and vulnerable isolated people, which in large the aftermath of which demonstrate weak token gesture investigations and are generally ignored by the courts processes. Leaving the victim of vigilante behaviour in a quandary. We are all aware fundamentally, that on accusation of any related peadophile activity, a 'death warrant' has been 'signed'. Certainly it is unheard of that the police step in to defend the accused individual. If the police themselves make the accusation, then it feeds in to vigilantes acrimony. Actions which some police officers clearly condone.

With all the failings which were revealed to the court, I do hope that the court does at least imprison these officers to send a clear message about how vulnerable a person becomes, when they are accused of being a paedophile. For someone in my position who knows that information about me being put in the public domain, made delinquent by police actions raises the game stakes to high risk of vigilante threat and action. Wishfully we may see the start in the process of creating a balance and force the police to review their culture of acceptance; that their 'nods and winks' with the lack of taking the falsely accused victim concerns seriously might turn on themselves. As the police fight their own demons about their past failing, to act in supporting child victims of abuse, this issue will remain on the back burner until sufficient murders and suicide deaths have occurred. In the course of time, maybe not in my lifetime, their will become many prosecutions of individual police officers who through their historic misconduct have allowed death to occur and failed to protect the vulnerable.

Update: 10th February 2016

Yesterday, the sentencing of the two offenders was announced by the a Judge at Bristol Crown Court, The judge said: “I cannot go behind the jury’s verdicts and it is with a heavy heart that in each of your cases I take the view that only a custodial sentence is appropriate. “It doesn’t seem to me a proper consequence of your wrongdoing that the sentences need be long. You have already suffered greatly. You have already lost your careers and in each of your cases there is genuine justification for mercy. “You must not bear the responsibilities for the wider failings in the police which were beyond your control.”

PC Kevin Duffy was sentenced to 10 months at Bristol crown court on Tuesday, while PCSO Andrew Passmore was jailed for four months. Michael Borrelli QC, for Passmore, said his client was the carer for his elderly mother and stepfather and suffered from low IQ and memory recall. 

The pair were convicted of misconduct in a public office after a jury decided they had made criminally serious errors over the case of Bijan Ebrahimi. 

Comment: So the judge is apologising for the jurys decision and the fact he needed to send a message to Police services to get their act together?  'Following orders' is not a defence we have allowed for far lesser criminal activity, why are we accepting it now?

A final point, the Defence Counsel pushed a major issue which must ring very loud alarm bells eluding to a PCSO having very low intelligence and servere emotional instability. Can we except the protectors and guardians of our society being, to quote Shakepeare, "as thick as two short planks" and being of a fragile disposition? Is this a true reflection on those encouraged to join police forces? Moreover, the police services entry requirements seem to be so low that anyone who can tie shoe laces and fire a tazer will qualify.

Update: 18th Decemebr 2017

Latest findings in a report about the involvement of the Bristol City Council and the Avon and Somerset Police have been revealed today. Bijan Ebrahimi was beaten to death and set alight on a Bristol estate in 2013, by a group of vigilantes who determined he was a paedophile without any evidence to support their accusations and beliefs Although the reports main tenet was about racial issues, it also concluded that Avon and Somerset Police and Bristol City Council "repeatedly sided with his abusers".

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