Reckon i should pursue legal action?

Hedge

Hedge

Hedge

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About 2 months ago i was robbed while i was working away..

Id been drinking and i was in unfamiliar territory, staying in a premier inn place,

Anyway, id been out on the drink after a tough days graft.. i drank a bit too much and my memory went hazy..

I vaguely remembered being by the side of the road in the rain, and also remember being in the back of a car, talking to a woman in the passenger side.

Next thing i know, I wake up at 9am in my premier inn room. My head is absolutely killing me, i think "Christ, this is bad for a hangover" and i walk over to the mirror feeling a bit sick and dazed.

I look at myself and ive got a big black eye, and i have dry blood from my right ear, right down my neck and over my shoulder. All dried up over my top.

The sight may have knocked me a bit sick, and i threw up in the toilet.. my sick was full of blood.

After vomiting about 3 times i had to get myself an ambulance cos i was in no state to drive.

So i gets the receptionist to call me an ambulance as i had no mobile, and no wallet.

After being scanned in hospital it was found i had 3 fractures in my skull and was a bit concussed.

I spoke to the police in the hospital and i said i vaguely recalled being driven back to my room.. i was sure it was police.

They said they will look into it as "someone was picked up last night, but we dont know where he was dropped off"

I thought this was a bit of a joke.


Anyway, after a bit of research and my phonecalls to the premier inn, the night watchman and the cctv confirmed that police had dropped me off at my room, with a fractured skull and obvious bleeding.

This is negligence im sure.

I admit i was drunk, but im not normally agressive towards police or anything. So i dont think i deserved to just be dropped off with injuries.

The following morning my girlfriend had got a phonecall from my phone too, it was "irish sounding" people laughing at the fact i got kicked to crap. Which upset her as she hadnt had word from me prior to this point.


Its been a good 8 weeks, but do you think i should pursue something that has been bugging me in court?
 
don't think theres much you can do if you don't know where they are, maybe get the mobile phone company to try and find where the call was made from or lock the phone?
 
Send the story to the papers and im sure the **** will hit the fan then.
Police shouldnt be sending a seemingly seriously injured guy home, especially when hes drunk.
 
Nah - I wouldn't bother, you were obviously too drunk anyway so you can only really blame yourself for getting into that situation. I bet you never get that drunk again and get attacked by micks.
 
I understand that i screwed up by getting drunk. But what annoys me is that the police didnt deal with me properly.

Ive seen nuggets get into fights in town, and they get checked out by police medics etc in the cells im sure.

Surely if im bleeding from inside my ear it looks pretty bloody serious
 
Hedge said:
I understand that i screwed up by getting drunk. But what annoys me is that the police didnt deal with me properly.

Ive seen nuggets get into fights in town, and they get checked out by police medics etc in the cells im sure.

Surely if im bleeding from inside my ear it looks pretty bloody serious
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Yeah but we don't know you from Adam, you may be a right thug anyway when ******, assuming what you have written is true at all.,

Stop swearing
 
Slam62 said:
Yeah but we don't know you from Adam, you may be a right thug anyway when ******, assuming what you have written is true at all.,

Stop swearing
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Yeah, but whats that got to do with it?

Im pretty sure Police should have some sort of procedure in place when dealing with people who have clearly sustained head injuries and are drunk.

being dropped off in my hotel proves i wasnt an arse to the point i would warrant a night in a cell, so why the hell didnt i get taken for a checkup?
 
sorry to hear about your incident hedge, I'm angry just reading it so I can't imagine how you feel, good luck if you choose to pursue it though
 
Doesnt sound to me like the police did anything wrong at all. From their point of view they're confronted with a drunk man whose been in a fight and lost - something they see every Friday and Saturday night. If they went around taking everyone to hospital with a few cuts and bruises there wouldnt be a police force on the streets. Remember their not doctors, so how would they now what your injures are?

No blame, no claim.
 
Can't you try and get in touch with the hotel you stayed in, ask to speak to the staff on duty that night, because i'm sure they will remember a guy with blood dripping from his head, and they'de be able to tell you how drunk/aggressive you were... And ask for copies of the CCTV tapes, so you can prove your actions were not violent, and therefore you should have been treated...

I feel disgusted at the way you were treated, totally out of order!

Regards
Ben
 
davethe11 said:
sorry to hear about your incident hedge, I'm angry just reading it so I can't imagine how you feel, good luck if you choose to pursue it though
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Cheers.

Being drunk was my foolish mistake, i was in an area i dont know properly and i had drank more than I should have. Being from North east my accent attracts attention down south. And i was told that the area i was in was pretty rough anyway.

So theres a chance i just said something stupid whilst being ******, then got a whacking.

I understand that I dont deserve sympathy or anything, but i just feel they went about it the wrong way.
 
Alcohol should be illeagised. Upto 1928 nearly all drugs were legal. They used to send Heroin and syringes to the boys in the trenches. We really need to educate ourselves about the risks of Alcohol, just because it is legal, does not mean it is a good drug. I think we would be all a lot better off if pot was the drug of choice. You do not see gangs of stoned people mouthing off and causing fights etc. They are laughing too much or too chilled out to cause problems.

What I actually mean is drugs are bad mkay?
 
Speak to a lawyer, they will normally give you the first hour for free to asses the case. I would assume that if you had obvious injuries (black eyes, bleeding etc) then the police had a duty of care to ensure that you were at least assesed by a duty doctor, the only reason i can see for them not doing is that whilst you were drunk you refuse dto let them take you back to the station or to the local A&E.

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Remember their not doctors, so how would they now what your injures are?
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Exactly, they are not Doctors so if they see someone with injuries they should ensure that someone who is properly trained asseses what the damage may be, not make a judgement call and say 'ah well, he has just had a good kicking, a little bit of sleep will sort him out'.
 
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Doesnt sound to me like the police did anything wrong at all. From their point of view they're confronted with a drunk man whose been in a fight and lost - something they see every Friday and Saturday night. If they went around taking everyone to hospital with a few cuts and bruises there wouldnt be a police force on the streets. Remember their not doctors, so how would they now what your injures are?

No blame, no claim.
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It was on a wednesday night, I didnt have a few cuts and bruises, i had blood coming from the inside of my ear. This is what i vomited up as I had been swallowing it through the night .

I phoned the hotel at the time and they confirmed that i was dropped off by police, who handed my keys into the reception (i was robbed of phone and wallet, not my van or house keys). I never asked if i was aggressive or anything, but If i was, i imagine the hotel wouldnt want me in the room.

They will probably remember if i phone them up again, however it was a couple of months back.

Im not asking for people to give sympathy. I just want to know if i have a case. Because i definately feel i should have went to hospital on the night, not the morning when i had to phone myself an ambulance
 
Turophobic said:
Alcohol should be illeagised. Upto 1928 nearly all drugs were legal. They used to send Heroin and syringes to the boys in the trenches. We really need to educate ourselves about the risks of Alcohol, just because it is legal, does not mean it is a good drug. I think we would be all a lot better off if pot was the drug of choice. You do not see gangs of stoned people mouthing off and causing fights etc. They are laughing too much or too chilled out to cause problems.

What I actually mean is drugs are bad mkay?
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go look up what has happened in the past with prohibition.

Ain't gonna happen.
 
They never even bothered to look into whether i was picked up though, I always said i had been picked up in a car, And a female police officer (i didnt know for sure) had been talking to me. I remembered that much.

When they said "someone was picked up by the side of the road, and dropped off somewhere, but we dont know where"... i thought. EH? police always complain about paperwork, surely they fill in a form if they pick up someone and drop em off "somewhere"
 
Hedge said:
It was on a wednesday night, I didnt have a few cuts and bruises, i had blood coming from the inside of my ear. This is what i vomited up as I had been swallowing it through the night .
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when you woke up you had blood outside your ear, then it might have just been a tiny amount, on a dark night. They might have asked if you where ok what happened you said you where fine a fight or something so they think ok drop him off at home.

if the blood was going down you're throat then there might have been none outside of your ear until you lay down and it came out.

What exactly do you want out of this compo? a hearing for the copper? a charge for being drunk and disorderly?
 
<(Multi)> said:
Doesnt sound to me like the police did anything wrong at all. From their point of view they're confronted with a drunk man whose been in a fight and lost - something they see every Friday and Saturday night. If they went around taking everyone to hospital with a few cuts and bruises there wouldnt be a police force on the streets. Remember their not doctors, so how would they now what your injures are?

No blame, no claim.
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Anyone with any basic first aid knowledge which I would asume most police have would know that bleeding from your ears should mean a pretty swift trip to hospital
 
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