Don't you just love domestics!
Its the early evening we have just finished dealing with a crappy neighbour dispute. When we receive a call to a very busy estate, a report of an on going domestic by a neighbour. We are not far away and wanna get out of this street ASAP so we make are excuses and tear off.
We arrive on scene to be greeted by the female, she runs into the front garden in some very revealing pink PJ's. She shouts out 'he's run out the back door!' We run around to the rear lane but he's gone. We search the rear gardens nothing, except in the rear garden of this house there is a pile of clothes and a toothbrush strewn on some weeds purporting to be a lawn.
Never mind, I go inside and start getting her account. My colleague chats with the informant next door.
She says they've had a row and he's kicked her.
I ask if there are any marks but I there are none. I also ask if she wants to make a complaint this time. I've never been here myself but apparently she has made several complaints before and never gone to court with them. She is not entirely sure but in the end she states she does want to give a statement. So I start taking a statement I begin by getting some background, how many kids they have, what lead up to the row etc. All the time I've got Ant and Dec full blast on the TV and their eldest child of 18 months who's just started walking going through my file and pulling at my paperwork.
I've written about a page and a half by this stage.
She states she slapped him first.
Woman 1 Man 0
She then states he kicked her until she fell on the floor.
Woman 1 Man 1
I say that's fine he can't claim self defence as its not really proportionate to a slap. I ask did anything else happen? Well I did get a knife and shout I'm going to f**king kill you she adds does that make a difference? My colleague informs me that's what the neighbour heard and that's why she called us.
Woman 2 Man 1
Anything else I ask. Shall I mention the bit where I him with the chair?
Woman 3 Man 1
Oh dear I say. We explain that if he is arrested there are likely to be counter allegations. She ponders on this, then decides not to make a complaint after all.
PNB signed happy days.
I think he'd already lost this round.
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I can't count the number of wasted hours on stupid incidents where there are counter allegations. If their not on the Jeremy Kyle show they're calling us out to deal with their disputes!
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Sometimes I think you guys south of the border have it hard what with PACE and Engerlish Law, but on this occasion we Scots would have been snookered. Up these parts the pair would have both been lifted and hours would have been spent on the associated paperwork. SCRS and Zero Tolerance in respect to Domestic Violence would have seen to that, but I remember the good old days.
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