elderly woman Jailed for no tv licence

cadete

Cant believe how shocking this is. What kind of nation are we really? Our poorest and most vulnerable citizens jailed for not having the money to pay a tv licence, while the shirts and ties sit in the dail laughing and drinking and counting their money and making sure nothing is missed in their expenses. Or the bankers play golf not worried because they got their golden handshakes and ripped this country to pieces. Is this the nation we have become?

Shame!
http://www.herald.ie/news/grieving-gran-64-jailed-six-weeks-after-sisters-death-29513916.html

shopaholic01

She wasn't jaiked for not paying for a TV licensce, it was for breaches of casual trading laws involving tobacco.

jaffacakesyum

Did I miss something? I read the article quickly mind you, but didn't see anything about tv license. She didn't pay fees related to

casual breaches of casual trading laws involving tobacco.

I do feel sorry for her. But if it was some 21 year old lad who was involved in illegal trading with tobacco and refused to pay the fines would you care? Rules are rules I suppose.

SweepTheLeg

She was breaking the law so she went to jail. I don't see the problem.

john_cappa

You didnt even read the article OP.

"Ms Teeling's fines date back several years and relate to breaches of casual trading laws involving tobacco"

Piss off

Wabbit Ears

"But Ms Teeling now faces a lengthy stint behind bars for non-payment of €4,000 worth of fines dating back years."

Valetta

What?

Where does it say she had no tv license?

And the TDs are on holidays.

GLaDOS

Ms Teeling's fines date back several years and relate to breaches of casual trading laws involving tobacco.

Nothing about a TV license that I can see? Seems she's had several years to pay it as well.

princess-lala

She wasn't paying her fines!!

Her sister passing away is just the sympathy card!! - obviously that's very sad but no excuse for not paying her fines!

john_cappa

princess-lala wrote: »

She wasn't paying her fines!!

Her sister passing away is just the sympathy card!! - obviously that's very sad but no excuse for not paying her fines!

But what about the kids? wont anyone think of the children??

"Her two grandkids are asking: 'Where's Granny?' I don't know what to tell them."

lolled

Sir Humphrey Appleby

From the linked article:
Ms Teeling now faces a lengthy stint behind bars for non-payment of €4,000 worth of fines dating back years.

She racked €4,000 in fines for selling hooky fags ffs!
OP is highly misleading.

maximoose

while the shirts and ties sit in the dail laughing and drinking and counting their money and making sure nothing is missed in their expenses. Or the bankers play golf not worried because they got their golden handshakes and ripped this country to pieces. Is this the nation we have become?

a) I hate how every time there's a thread about someone being prosecuted this line is trotted out.

b) what a steaming piece of turd that article is

wes

I don't see much value in imprisoning someone for not paying there fines. It will surely cost us more than 4000 euro she owes, to jail her. Perhaps we should keep the space for the various violent and repeat offenders, who are regularly let our early, and some up with a more cost effective measure to punish those who don't pay fine e.g community service or something like that.

I see no reason to waste prison space like this.

Jester252

Don't do the crime if you don't what to do the time.

The Backwards Man

I ate a pie and got fat. It's those bastards in the Dail's fault.

Licencetokill

Its her own fault, pay the fines or go to prison. If she cant afford to pay the fines she stays in prison like anybody else why should age matter?.

biko

I read she was jailed for having Black Jewish Non-national Gay Travellers Dealing Drugs out of her Dublin home.
It's in the article somewhere.

john_cappa

biko wrote: »

I read she was jailed for having Black Jewish Non-national Gay Travellers Dealing Drugs out of her Dublin home.
It's in the article somewhere.

Bastards were claiming child support for kids abroad aswell I see.

shopaholic01

There's a valuable lesson in this:

Read the article before you rush to be the first to express your outrage at the Government and bankers.

shopaholic01

john_cappa wrote: »

Bastards were claiming child support for kids abroad aswell I see.

And leaving buggies at bus stops because the social will just give them new ones.

Joe Exotic

Id agree with the previous poster who said that we shouldn't be jailing fine dodgers. however she certainly deserves some punishment (i'm not sure what) for not paying the fines.

Age is not grounds for not punishing someone !!!

Sir Humphrey Appleby

She was coerced into selling the smuggled contraband.:P

folan

poor woman couldn't pay tv license becasue she was busy selling cigs! shes so poor she worked at it for several years and still couldnt pay.

what is the country coming to when we punish people! elderly people too!

MarkR

Shame OP didn't actually read the article.

folan

murphk wrote: »

Id agree with the previous poster who said that we shouldn't be jailing fine dodgers. however she certainly deserves some punishment (i'm not sure what) for not paying the fines.

well, fining her wasn't working.....

princess-lala

Mr.S wrote: »

"Elderly" - shes 64 ffs

64 is the new 100 when you're in trouble!!

It's the new 20 when you're not

efb

Ah heyer who's for the last of the JP Blues???

Wossack

fairly accurate thread title

if by 'elderly', you mean '64y/o'
and by 'no tv license' you mean 'flogging bogey smokes'

super_furry

Change the thread topic, it's wrong and misleading.

Artful_Badger

Jailed over 4 grand, the family can whinge all they like but if they couldnt muster 4 grand to keep old nan out of the clinker in her old age then what was the fcukin point in her having kids at all ?

princess-lala

"64 year old banged up for selling dodgy ciggys"

shopaholic01

super_furry wrote: »

Change the thread topic, it's wrong and misleading.

Why let facts get in the way of indignation?

Zillah

john_cappa wrote: »

But what about the kids? wont anyone think of the children??

"Her two grandkids are asking: 'Where's Granny?' I don't know what to tell them."

lolled

"Granny went to prison because she thought she could deal in black market trading, refuse to pay court fines and thumb her nose at civil society all to make an easy buck. Now she is in prison. Don't do what Granny Don't does."

spurious

Lock all the oul' ones and oul' lads up and be done with it.

folan

those tv license ads were fairly annoying tbf! maybe she sold the cigs as a protest

Eh....yeh....

What everyone else said.