A bomb hoaxer who caused the closure of London’s Tottenham Court Road after throwing equipment from the fifth floor of an office block has been jailed.
Michael Green, 48, who pleaded guilty to charges of false imprisonment, making a bomb hoax and destroying property, was sentenced to six years.
His actions in April led to the central London road’s closure, buildings being evacuated and Tube stations shutting.
Armed police went into the training firm he had entered to end the siege.
He pleaded not guilty to a count of possessing a prohibited weapon when he entered Advantage Training Services. The prosecution offered no evidence on that charge.
During the siege police put in a 300m cordon, hundreds of people had to leave the area and negotiators were brought in as police attempted to arrest Green.
At the time police were concerned he had explosive or flammable liquids.
Green was sentenced to six years for false imprisonment, three years for making a false bomb hoax threat and four years for destroying or damaging property and being reckless to whether life was endangered.
How many people here can honestly say they haven’t felt like raising hell because they felt they’d been ripped off, the difference is that Mr green stopped thinking about it and did it
to think you get 5 years for ■■■■, 4 years for perjury, and no years if you’re rich and have a fancy lawyer, despite robbing people of their life savings, and driving them to suicide…
Stinks don’t it!
The fact that his reasons and what should have been mitigating circumstances were all neatly brushed under the carpet also adds to the conspiricy theory that conmen are all the latest true blue businesspeople!
Con outfits might be considered important to 21st century Britain because
(1) they don’t claim dole, thus don’t appear on the unemployment figures and
(2) they tell their victims to sign off, because you’ve got a £35k job “guaranteeed, I can assure you sir - how would you like to pay your £2400?”
Like the finance industry, it seems to be a case of “Everyone will hate you folks, but you’ll want for nothing, this government will leave you be, and your public level of respect won’t fall below that of bankers at this time, who also have a right to steal your money and not pay out.”
It won’t be long until being a member of any “Born in the UK” party gets stamped upon by the law at every opportunity.
Political delivery is pretty much everything when attempting to get the whole country to buy into the big deceptions of this young century.
If someone charismatic and vote-winning like Tony Blair chose to make a comeback via a BNP platform, do you think people would go “Yeh Tone! - Consider me onboard!” or “Oh no, a former prime minister has become a nutter!” :?:
I think he was badly advised to plead guilty here… The prosecution case against him was pretty thin, and I don’t even think he’d have been jailed if found guilty of something like “causing an affray” or something similar. No weapon, No bomb, just harsh language and a “victim” member of staff that happened to be off-white.
Doya reckon the CPS and Brief were acting in cahoots with the firm here, to maintain their rip-off charter dignity as it were?
