I am not going to rehash all the comments that has been made... However I do feel that the prosecution team in this case were not being 100% straight in court.
Also I find it really strange that he was convicted under computer crime statues even though the judge was on record saying that had he not lied (I don't think we can assume he did) to the police he would have been aquited. Sorry but I am a bit confused here, Mr Cuthbert was found guilty of a crime under UK Computer crime statues for allegedly changing his story afer arrest.
That seems completely absurd - if the judge wanted to find him guilty of some crime then how about wasting police time or something, that might have been a credible verdict but the verdict he did hand down is just dumb.
It feels as though they wanted to take this opportunity to make an example of Mr Cuthbert and at the same time create some case law that can be used and abused just like the Computer Misuse Act was in this case - IMHO.
In summary this smacks of the state pissing on the little guy - again. My feeling is that Mr Cuthbert's intentions were honerable and not malicious in any way and the tratment of him by the UK judicial system is disgraceful and the verdit unsound. If there is an appeal I feel sure the verdit will be set aside.
Anyone else feel that the UK is becoming a police state and we'd be happoer, safer, enjoy more libery and freedoms without our rights being abused and trampled upon if we all just packed up our stuff and moved to some other country. I am going to draw up my list of possible emigration options after this.
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I am not going to rehash all the comments that has been made... However I do feel that the prosecution team in this case were not being 100% straight in court.
Also I find it really strange that he was convicted under computer crime statues even though the judge was on record saying that had he not lied (I don't think we can assume he did) to the police he would have been aquited. Sorry but I am a bit confused here, Mr Cuthbert was found guilty of a crime under UK Computer crime statues for allegedly changing his story afer arrest.
That seems completely absurd - if the judge wanted to find him guilty of some crime then how about wasting police time or something, that might have been a credible verdict but the verdict he did hand down is just dumb.
It feels as though they wanted to take this opportunity to make an example of Mr Cuthbert and at the same time create some case law that can be used and abused just like the Computer Misuse Act was in this case - IMHO.
In summary this smacks of the state pissing on the little guy - again. My feeling is that Mr Cuthbert's intentions were honerable and not malicious in any way and the tratment of him by the UK judicial system is disgraceful and the verdit unsound. If there is an appeal I feel sure the verdit will be set aside.
Anyone else feel that the UK is becoming a police state and we'd be happoer, safer, enjoy more libery and freedoms without our rights being abused and trampled upon if we all just packed up our stuff and moved to some other country. I am going to draw up my list of possible emigration options after this.