Post by bancroft on Dec 22, 2023 16:32:40 GMT
He is currently on a BBC 1 program travelling the North with his son.
I'm neither a fan nor dislike him yet said something really interesting about getting arrested and going to prison.
Now I checked on wiki and it is interesting as before being an actor he was a plasterer and in a union.
He joined a flying picket in '72 during a workers dispute at Shrewsbury, now he says a number were arrested and some for violence.
They were told if they pleaded guilty they would get off.
Him and a mate said 'No, we didn't do anything wrong.'
They got 2 & 3 years on a charge that had not been used for 98 years, Conspiracy to intimidate.
Now they both spent time in solitary and his mate he was also a union rep had a health problem during solitary and was given medication that caused him side effects for years after.
He has always believed his sentence was wrong and has campaigned to get his conviction over-turned.
'75 at the TUC he was prevented speaking on stage so heckled from the wings and disrupted the proceedings.
In 2012 him and others sought to get their convictions over-turned by the Criminal Case Review Commission
In 2013 a paper petition was launched.
In 2020 CCRC announced a number of convictions had been handed to the Court of Appeal.
Conviction over-turned in 2021.
I would never have known about this had it not been for seeing this afternoon TV.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Tomlinson
I'm neither a fan nor dislike him yet said something really interesting about getting arrested and going to prison.
Now I checked on wiki and it is interesting as before being an actor he was a plasterer and in a union.
He joined a flying picket in '72 during a workers dispute at Shrewsbury, now he says a number were arrested and some for violence.
They were told if they pleaded guilty they would get off.
Him and a mate said 'No, we didn't do anything wrong.'
They got 2 & 3 years on a charge that had not been used for 98 years, Conspiracy to intimidate.
Now they both spent time in solitary and his mate he was also a union rep had a health problem during solitary and was given medication that caused him side effects for years after.
He has always believed his sentence was wrong and has campaigned to get his conviction over-turned.
'75 at the TUC he was prevented speaking on stage so heckled from the wings and disrupted the proceedings.
In 2012 him and others sought to get their convictions over-turned by the Criminal Case Review Commission
In 2013 a paper petition was launched.
In 2020 CCRC announced a number of convictions had been handed to the Court of Appeal.
Conviction over-turned in 2021.
I would never have known about this had it not been for seeing this afternoon TV.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Tomlinson
