The Framing of Frank Shortt
Posted on Monday, March 3, 2008Did anyone see the programme on RTE tonight about the activities of our disgraceful police force? A rabble. A bunch of indisciplined, corrupt thugs who attacked a night-club in Donegal, threatened and intimidated customers, smashed up furniture and vandalised the building. Animals who stripped some of the customers naked in public: casual sexual abuse and degradation. A crowd of liars and criminals — not a police force in any sense you might understand the term — who falsified evidence and perjured an innocent club-owner into prison, in the words of the judge who eventually freed him.
We are policed by a crowd of unprofessional, power-mad farm-labourers in uniform who continue to treat our citizens with boorish contempt.
This is what I wrote about it twelve months ago, and nothing has improved since.
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March 23rd 2007
Did you ever hear of Frank Shortt?
Probably not, but I won’t be long telling you who he is.
Frank Shortt owned a bar in Donegal, and in 1995 he was convicted of allowing drugs to be sold on his premises. The bastard!!, you might say.
Indeed.
In its judgement last Wednesday, the Irish Supreme Court increased an earlier award to Frank Shortt for miscarriage of justice from €1.93 million to €4.5 million euros.
He was imprisoned, lost his business, his family and his health and was struck off as an accountant because Irish policemen lied to put him in jail. As Mr Justice Hardiman remarked in his judgement, Frank Shortt was “perjured into prison” by the Irish police.
This was one of the most damning judgements ever handed down by the Irish Supreme Court and continues a long line of disastrous investigations into the most inept and corrupt police force in Europe.
You only have to read the Morris report to see what these guys are like.
Here’s Mr Justice Morris, quoted in an earlier post:
The Tribunal has been staggered by the amount of indiscipline and insubordination it has found in the Garda force. There is a small, but disproportionately influential, core of mischief-making members who will not obey orders, who will not follow procedures, who will not tell the truth and who have no respect for their officers.
These are the people we pay to stand between us and the criminals. Maybe we should reconsider. Maybe we need to pay criminals to stand between us and the Guards. Maybe there isn’t any difference.
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Gardai Deny Farting at Suspect
Do you know your Daddy’s a murderer?
Stumble it!
March 3rd, 2008
I saw a small bit of that show - the incident was so horribly re-enacted (even by RTE’s standards) that my eyeballs began to burn so I had to switch it off.
Anyway, we hardly need television to tell us that the Gardai are a pack of crooks, do we?
March 3rd, 2008
Why shouldn’t we get this story from a TV programme?
March 3rd, 2008
Hmmm. Misunderstood… I am.
I’m not saying RTE were wrong to cover it the story, the scheming cunts that did this deserve to be shamed into their grave.
I was making a funny. Ha ha…
…Ha?
*grabbing my coat*
March 4th, 2008
sounds something like that movie out at the moment with mark walberg. hmm lets see. we own the night. i liked him in boogie nights too.
March 4th, 2008
Would you do me a favour and make your mind up which name you’re going to use.
March 4th, 2008
Saw most of it Bock and it was shocking but this has all been laid out for us by newspapers. I guess those re-enactments and it being told by Shortt himself makes it more real. In any case, we have a Garda Obmudsman now so all is well.
March 4th, 2008
73man: I know, but it seems that no matter how much the papers write about it, people don’t read the reports. A re-enactment seems to grab people’s attention better, and the story is too important to remain hidden.
March 4th, 2008
I often frequented the Point Inn at the time of Franks arrest and subsequent jailing.I am over the moon at his total vindication of all charges .Pity it has taken so long.He tried to accomodate the gardai as best he could.He even held dealers in a room until the gards arrived.As i say, i am absolutely delighted for Frank and his family.
March 6th, 2008
A Garda in Wexford has been held on suspicion of advising criminals - just on suspicion mind you - but the Gardai already a few names of people who DID advise criminals. These bishops and archbishops who facilitated child abusing clergy! When can we expect to see these red hats being led away ?