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Cavendish Court case

  • 08-02-2007 01:52AM
    #1
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭


    The owner of a Belfast poker club, raided by police a year ago, has been fined £3,000 after being convicted of breaking betting and gambling laws.
    A magistrate ordered that £2,000 seized by police should be given to charity.

    Sean Murphy, who runs the Cavendish Club on Corporation Street, accepted he had broken the law but called for new regulations to allow poker in NI.

    But a Crown lawyer told the city's magistrates court police hoped this was the "first of many" such prosecutions.

    The resident magistrate ordered the disposal of seized slot machines.

    She said roulette and blackjack tables would not be confiscated, as Mr Murphy had promised they would only be used for a legitimate purpose within the law.


    "first of many"

    nothing else worthy of PSNI attention? :rolleyes:

    At least they got the money to charity....


Comments

  • #2
    valor
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    so gay


  • #3
    Shield
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 9,814 CMod ✭✭✭✭Shield


    MadsL wrote:
    nothing else worthy of PSNI attention?

    The law is the law. We don't make them up or choose which ones to enforce. Our job is simply to enforce whatever laws are passed. Some of them suck, but most have to be there. Why not take a pop at the people who pass the dumb laws in the first place?


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