"Food, rest and a lot of questions" - UK police treatment of bomb suspect

[Pert_UK]

Hmmmm......even I'M a bit sceptical that it will be quite as sweet as this....

"Halal food, a prayer mat and the prospect of a slow build-up of pressure to talk - this is the fate of suspected failed bomber Yasin Hassan Omar...

Transported to London's high-security Paddington Green police station hours after his arrest, Omar would have been greeted by the custody sergeant and told his rights, before being given food as well as a chance to rest, according to solicitor Greg Powell, who has been inside the station. He would have access to a Koran and a prayer mat...

"The reason officers are doing that is not that they are being particularly compassionate - although it would help with any rapport-building exercise - but mainly because nobody wants any possible future court case to be compromised by any sense of ill treatment," Mr Shoebridge said..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4724521.stm

[mark11727]

1. THAT's called thinking ahead...

[KurtNYC]

2. break out the "comfy chair"

[Pert_UK]

3. Not.........the comfy chair!!!!!

:evilgrin:

[darkism]

4. Much better than sodomy, starvation and electrodes on the genitals.

[Pert_UK]

6. Sounds like my average weekend.....n/t

:evilgrin:

[Kraklen]

5. I'd like to believe that. I don't.

Scotland Yard has a history of beating false confessions out of terrorism suspects.

Given Blair's cooperation with American atrocities I haven't got a lot of reason to suspect things have gotten a lot better.

[Pert_UK]

7. I agree, but don't think they're stupid enough to try it again....

After all the recent "miscarriages of justice" and people released from prison after police manufactured evidence or beat confessions out of them, I reckon they'll be too keen to get this one right.

I don't recall any cases in the last few years of alleged mistreatment by the police during questionning....I'm sure there are some, but it's not "standard" practice these days.