This is actually beyond messed up, to effectively just arrest someone, not check their medical records and then deny them the medication they desperately need is insane to me.
Is there any kind of recourse you can take against this? they clearly failed on their duty of care.
I'm investigating legal action, but given that the laws in this country serve to protect the establishment rather than the common person, I imagine it's doubtful would it would lead to anything.
Thanks for posting OP and genuinely sorry to hear what you went through.
The cached indecent images thing I still find shocking in how the law deals/interprets this. I can only assume it's like this because nobody yet dares to seriously bring it up it up because of the subject matter/inevitable media backlash.
Well, on one hand, I can understand the rationale, because anyone could look at illegal images, delete them whatever, and claim innocence. The problem is the decisions the CPS make are determined by whether they can secure a conviction or not, no rational judgement is applied; if someone has 1,000 cached images or something, then it's hard to see how that could happen by accident, even in the absence of any forensic evidence they searched for it, but when it's 7, prosecutors need to apply a bit of common sense. This still would not have been an issue though had I not been on remand, because the magistrate had said she would have normally granted unconditional bail for this image offence, I would then have been able to have a trial.
The fact that they charge it as "making" an indecent image, also shows the fundamental dishonesty of the legal system, it's sentenced as possession and no normal person would ever call it "making". One can make legal justifications for it, but the practical effect of charging it as making is to mislead the public, by, exaggerating the serious of the offence and trying to create the image of a monster in the minds of the public. In this day and age all images are digital, so to not charge it as possession is to demonstrate the lack of openness and transparency by which the court operates, it's not open to scrutiny in the way scientific institutions are, it operates on a more closed door policy, reminiscent of a religious institution, and lacks integrity.
I imagine you're right in that people feel afraid to bring it up for fear of being labelled a "nonce" by plebs and vigilantes. I've already had my name listed on one of those community sex offender websites, the owners of which complain that they get backlash and threats from people they list on it, and I'm thinking to myself yeah, because people don't like being wrongly branded as sex offender and it's right that they challenge it. Devote your life to a good purpose, not a bad one.
