Not sure if this is for this site but i am really troubled by my current situation. I have been interviewed by the police regarding a mini cab fare that was not paid of £146 pounds which was a ride that took 5 odd hours around London stopping off at various iconic locations ( oxford street, Shaftesbury avenue, clapham junction) .
The reason my name comes to light is when i was fifteen i used an alias name which has been given by the person who booked the mini cab. After the police exhausting investigations they contact me for an interview based on that alias some 30 years ago.
After the interview which they are asking me questions of were i was on a certain day 4 months ago which you can imagine is difficult to remember. Anyway to cut a long story short they ask me if i am willing to attend an I D parade which i did and 6 weeks later to my surprise was picked out by the mini cab driver.
I am now in court and i could of pleaded guilty to this in a magistrates court and got a community based penalty but i elected to go to the crown court because I'm innocent. I have done extensive research into the locations the mini cab goes to asking for CCTV from various shops but they only keep that material for 30 days so i was never gonna be able to defend myself because i was arrested 3 months after the crime.
I have tried to get my text messages from 02 on that particular day so it will rejig my memory as to were i was because i was certainly not in a mini cab driving around london. I have also asked 02 for phone mapping so it will pin point were i was on that day and time to the nearest mast which in most cases is 100-400 metres away.
Problem i have is 02 or any phone company don't store your text messages so i have been told and i have to go through the 02 police liaison to try and get phone mapping that costs thousands of pounds and is usually only used in high end cases such as conspiracies and murder.
The prosecution say the are relying on identification and my alias of 30 years ago as sufficient to get a conviction. I am awaiting trial in march next year and I'm so pissed off by this as i have not done it.
Through my experience i now know as a member of the public i am not entitled to be given CCTV from the streets etc and it can only be given to the police or the council and i can't even get my text messages from 02. Lets flip the coin and if a terrorist was in these locations a year down the line or a murder had taken place this CCTV and text messages would be available.
The reason my name comes to light is when i was fifteen i used an alias name which has been given by the person who booked the mini cab. After the police exhausting investigations they contact me for an interview based on that alias some 30 years ago.
After the interview which they are asking me questions of were i was on a certain day 4 months ago which you can imagine is difficult to remember. Anyway to cut a long story short they ask me if i am willing to attend an I D parade which i did and 6 weeks later to my surprise was picked out by the mini cab driver.
I am now in court and i could of pleaded guilty to this in a magistrates court and got a community based penalty but i elected to go to the crown court because I'm innocent. I have done extensive research into the locations the mini cab goes to asking for CCTV from various shops but they only keep that material for 30 days so i was never gonna be able to defend myself because i was arrested 3 months after the crime.
I have tried to get my text messages from 02 on that particular day so it will rejig my memory as to were i was because i was certainly not in a mini cab driving around london. I have also asked 02 for phone mapping so it will pin point were i was on that day and time to the nearest mast which in most cases is 100-400 metres away.
Problem i have is 02 or any phone company don't store your text messages so i have been told and i have to go through the 02 police liaison to try and get phone mapping that costs thousands of pounds and is usually only used in high end cases such as conspiracies and murder.
The prosecution say the are relying on identification and my alias of 30 years ago as sufficient to get a conviction. I am awaiting trial in march next year and I'm so pissed off by this as i have not done it.
Through my experience i now know as a member of the public i am not entitled to be given CCTV from the streets etc and it can only be given to the police or the council and i can't even get my text messages from 02. Lets flip the coin and if a terrorist was in these locations a year down the line or a murder had taken place this CCTV and text messages would be available.
..I'm struggling with this
