Maurice Kirk - The relic was not a firearm !

[Meggido]

Fantastic News

[Mike_Jetson]

YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!











.......until next time

[El Scampio]

Great news, well done Maurice!!

[Somebodyelse]

Maurice KIrk won - South Wales Police - NIL NADA ZILCH

The jury took about 3 hours to reach a 10 to 1 majority verdict,( one dropped out ill a while back) they saw right through the bullshit peddled by the police, actually the delay was only caused by the judge first requiring a unanimous verdict.
They DID NOT LIKE IT them PTB, the whole thing nearly kicked off after the judge said "you are a free man, after RELIANCE SECURITY have finished processing you!!
Maurice thereupon tried to leave the court through the front door but the reliance thugs grabbed him and a noisy scuffle ensued in the court, Maurice clung to the side of the dock and most of the public gallery were on their feet and shouting at the thugs to stop assaulting a free man, two cops piled into the courtroom WITHOUT being summoned, ( it was later noted that lots more were waiting outside) and some members of the jury ran from the room in disgust and distress!
the thugs then kept him backstage for about 45mins untill after a heated discussion with a female thug about the fact that THE JURY had freed the man he was ejected through the side door onto the street with all his boxes of papers.

Unpeturbed Maurice then, in his own unique and inimitable style calmly walked across the road to the central policy station to pick up an application for a firearms licence and on the way out of the policy station stopped to chat to two policy officers in a van.

After this Maurice was treated to a well deserved pint in the nearest pub.
Victory for justice and common sense.

[Ben]

Perfect news .

[Kyle]

Fantastic news. Bet the family are happy.

RESULT!

Compensation???

[TheStoge]

ALISON WUNDERLAND SAID:

Reference Mr Maurice Kirk and trial for possessing a piece of ironmongery dressed up to look like a replica Lewis Machine Gun for ehibition as part of a World War 1 De Havilland Airco DH2 scout plane.

Thank God for a jury of 12 decent honest citizens to find Maurice NOT GUILTY against all the efforts of the puppet judge Thomas to bring in a guilty verdict. If it had been before Thomas alone, Maurice would have been declared guilty.

For 12 days the CPS and police have been holding a charade trial in Cardiff Crown Court. Yesterday, the 8th of February 2010, the prosecution barrister said to the judge, dare I call him His Honour Judge Paul Thomas, "We may have to accept that this was wrongful arrest."

Maurice made it clear that his expert gun witness was waiting outside the court and ready to give evidence. The judge said that he was not allowing any more witnesses, I wonder what he, the judge, was affraid of?

I shall now tell you. The alleged gun fails the test on many counts. (1). For more than a year before the gun came into police possession it had been who knows where, certainly not in the possession of Maurice Kirk because he had sold the gun on with the aircrsaft. The evidence trail is therefore broken and the gun cannot be used as evidence.

(2). The look alike Lewis gun gun is just that, a look alike, nothing more. It was assembled from various components, some of which came from Lewis guns, as long ago as 1984, long before the current Firearms legislation came into force. (3). The gun has no bolt, nor a receiver, the bit that guides the cardridge from the magazine into the breech, so there is nothing in the body of the gun to make it a gun capable of firing anything. (4). The "barrel" of the gun is not a Lewis Machine gun part. It has no rifling and no chambered breach. For most of it's length the internal bore is 0.48", for the last 2 or 3 inches at the muzzle end the bore diameter is 0.38". Any one attempting to fire a live cartridge from this would be extremely foolhardy and if a detonation occurred injury to the person would be occassioned. One might as well arrest a plummer for being in possession of a piece of pipe, a hammer and a nail.

(4). The gas piston, which on a working Lewis gun drives the firing mechanism including bolt and firing pin back to the cocking position, has been fixed into position by 4 screws through the piston cylinder so that if these were removed any gas from an ignited cartridge would not drive the piston backwards but would escape through the holes, thus rendering the gun incapable of automatic or semi-automatic operation.

(5). On a working Lewis gun there is a gas port just before the muzzle that allows gas from the detonated cartridge to pass into the piston chamber to drive the piston rearwards. There is no gas port.

(6). One of the police officers named PC Scott, said that it took 2 of them to pull back the cocking handle so they could be satisfied the gun was safe. He said there was no bolt in the gun.

(7). A working Lewis gun reloads and fires under the force of a constant tension spring similar to that used in a watch or clockwork motor. The spring is compressed by the piston moving backwards, a rack (a strip of metal with gear teeth on one side) connected to the piston turns a pinion wheel which is connected to the spring. On this look alike there is no constant tension spring. Why was the cocking lever so hard to pull back? Some one had added a coil spring to the piston at the muzzle end of the chamber. One end of the spring is attached to the end cap of the chamber, the opposite end is attached to the piston. In this configuration there is no possibility for the piston to travel far enough forward even if there was a bolt and firing pin to reach anywhere near a cartridge in the breach. The compressed coil spring is now taking up the last few inches of travel necessary for the gun to fire even if it could fire.

(8). The "gun" had no trigger and there was no "sear" when the "gun" came into the possession of the police. The "sear" is spring loaded latch to hold the firing mechanism in the firing position. It then only needs a light pressure on the trigger to released the firing mechanism and fire a round. A real Lewis machine gun will continue firing as long as the operator keeps their finger on the trigger or untill the magazine is empty. On release of the trigger the firing mechanism is held, by the "sear" in the firing position ready cocked for the next trigger press.

(9). Any expert who says he fired a cartridge from this so called gun is only expert in one thing, lying!

[emmanualgoldstein]

This guy wasnt just placed in a prison though, they put him in a loonie bin at one stage didnt they - any forced medication? How long was he in jail for? Was he subjected to any violence or threat of violence by the PTB or others inside? What about the distress caused to his family? Id like to know what they pay out is for all of this - I bet the first offer isnt even minimum wage for the amount of hours hes been away for.

[MadBomberJones]

Thank Goodness Maurice had a Jury of his peers to deliberate and not just a crooked judge.

JUSTICE!!! Well Done Maurice!

[denise]

This is my first post ever, but I am so happy to see Maurice freed at last. This shows the importance of the trial by jury we must always fight to keep that right, as you know they have already held one trial now without a jury and if we dont fight them on this they will drip feed this most important of all rights away. If Maurice had not had a jury I dread to think what would have happened to him.
To those honest and honourable human beings on the jury I add my thanks and to Maurice I just have not adequate words in my vocabulary to describe his courage and honour or to describe my absolute repect for him. All I can do is send my love and thanks to Maurice a brave and honourable man, a shining example to us all.
Love to you all