Chris Langham

[Arginald Valleywater]

P45 in the post and life of sneers and dirty looks whenever you go out Chris. Dye your hair and move to Dartmoor, The Hebrides or Hull.

[stripeysydney]

Hull? you evil person, no one deserve's that fate.

[Coolcat]

Sorry for joining this thread late, but two things have left me uneasy about this case.

1: Alice in Blunderland made the valid point earlier that "This is not some 15-year-old getting her tits out". But that is lumped by the media into the same category. The 'p' word is used for those who look at the kind of 'level 5' imagery described previously, and also for those who look at a topless girl a day short of her 18th birthday. The two are poles apart.

2: Two self-satisfied representatives of the police and the CPS held what sounded to be a preachy, smug press conference shortly after the verdict was handed down, having failed to secure convictions on the most important offences. Bad enough that they hadn't done enough to secure all convictions, my stomach turned as they preached to the public: "you must do this", "you shouldn't do that". Why are the police and Crown Prosecution Service allowed to make statements in such a personal way - "WE are delighted at the conviction" - and sounding so smug about their own involvement in the case?

[jj]

Allowing serving officers both of the law and of the court to make
unprepared statements to the press was always a bad idea. As was the
'mission-creep' of allowing senior police officers to spout forth their views
on policy.
That's what the Home Office is for. By all means consult, but behind closed
doors. These people are required to enforce the law, not shape it.

[dynatech]

This is probably the best piece I have read about this sage in the press

[jj]

I'm willing to bet that no charges have been or will be preferred against
the girl for wasting police time, or more seriously, attempting to pervert
the course of justice.

[jj]

They certainly seem to have encouraged her, when they must have
known her story was a tissue of lies.
The end justifies the means, eh?

[jj]

Whether or not she was a fantasist the CPS/police decision to tie in all the
charges together in a 'scattergun' approach served only to emphasise the
weakness of the Crown's case and may have acted to 'defocus' attention
on the much more serious P5 charges.
Langham's 'selective blindness' about the behaviour he was being
confronted with I found both odious, and typical of this type of abuser.
Many paedophiles either refuse to, or genuinely cannot, see that what
they are doing is wrong.