As I said, law does have a form of inequality about it. You will always be able to find examples of when the rich were punished and when the poor was too, but in general the rich are still favoured. A shame really.

Good luck with this 🙂 What John said is pretty spot on.
Airfields need to stop being looked at as easy land to develop in to housing/industrial estates.

I never actually said the law was fair, quite the opposite, John. I said it favours the rich and wealthy more so.

Nice to see the history behind it too. 🙂
Some nice photos and videos in that thread too.

Indeed the police do gather evidence, but the jury are there to listen to both sides and then decide and of course the judge passes the sentence. The evidence police gather doesn’t necessarily put people in prison. I’m not saying it’s never happened, but I’d say that most cases get a fair hearing, you only hear about the ones that don’t.

Newly restored? Nice catch!!

Indeed. However, I wonder if political pressure would have influenced the outcome if he was arrested? I think this whole current situation is more about getting Mitchell back in to a high up job again via the ‘poor me’ story.

Might be worth asking in the following topic: http://www.civilianaviation.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=13943