Two men accused of vandalising the Bidston Hill war memorial will appear in court today
At a previous hearing before Wirral Magistrates,
33 years old Stephen Clark of St Oswalds Avenue, Prenton
and David Gillam, who is 30 and lives in Fairbrook Drive, Birkenhead, intimated they will plead not guilty to the charge of criminal damage

They are accused of causing damage to flowers and wreaths at the memorial on Bidston Village Road in May of this year

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IF Found guilty, Probably blame it on having nothing to do, or drugs.
Courts should throw the book at them, and throw bricks and stones at them aswell while there at it.

30 and 33 years old, not kids, what the fook were they thinking.

Tossers.

I'd put them on the list for "re-education" (says he, easing the safety catch off).

f**king Grrrrs! send them to afghan to be used as targets to draw fire

Two Wirral men have admitted causing damage estimated to be in the hundreds of pounds to a Merseyside war memorial


Thirty three year old Stephen Clarke, of St Oswald’s Avenue, Prenton, and David Gillam, who is 31, and lives in Fairbrook Drive, Birkenhead, had both admitted damaging flowers and poppy wreaths at the Bidston memorial at an earlier court hearing

They blamed their destructiveness on drink when they appeared at Wirral Magistrates Court for sentencing

Each of them received a suspended sixty days prison sentence with a twelve month duration and thney were ordered to do one hundred and eighty hours unpaid work with the chairman of the bench of magistrates, Steven Fletcher indicating that he felt some of the unpaid work should be done at the memorial

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Pissheads as usuall

Hi Alex Your right (Tossers) even at thier ages .There are loads of tosser`s out .I try to avoid them myself

string them up b*stards

Give them to 3 Para Mortar to be ruined first! Then they can be used as IED detectors. There really aren't words enough to describe these ...!!

They got prison sentences for being assholes and destroying flowers? That's a bad judgement, even if it is suspended.

The judgement was sound, the sentence was the community service, the suspended sentence is to keep them in check so they know that this behaviour wont be tolerated.

The fact that they were "only" flowers isn't the point, if we read things like that then a headstone is "only" a rock, the memorial to so many means much more.

Very well said, Dr! Exactly.

http://www.wirralnews.co.uk/wirral-...iven-suspended-sentences-80491-29616115/

completely right, these actions are as bad as the people who oppose our brave soldiers and burn the poppys etc, they r ...

are you for real?????????????????
the fact that you can have this opinion is because of the names that are inscribed on memorials like this all over the free world.
to destroy the 'flowers' on these memorials which are laid in respect of their sacrifice is disgusting and if i was the judge they would have been sent down no suspended setence .
so wind your neck in!

LoTM53 - as much as it pains me to say it, yes they did die so that he can have that opinion, but they also died so he could express it freely We might not agree with it, I know I don't, but I agree to a certain degree that he is entitled to do so

Yes I was for real, hence my question mark. Note how I didn't need like 20 of them unlike you.

GTFO if you can't handle peoples opinions (especially when I was questioning my understanding of the judgement as well!).

i find your opinion on the 'flowers' offensive so wind your neck back in again

I find your stupidity offensive but you don't see me trying to make a big deal over it in some futile attempt to look hard over the internet, do you?

and let him have his opinion its what the wreaths and flowers repesent at the memorials

as a member of hm reserve forces and having lost friends in Iraq and Afghan you can possibly understand my anger and frustration

I agree wholeheartedly. I've been to too many funerals of friends lost in TELIC and HERRICK, not to mention friends who have come home from Tour early because of injuries, most of them catastrophic. My ex partner came home from 2 TELIC Tours a shell of the man he was when he went out and is thankfully now getting treatment for PTSD. I didn't recognise him when he came back from the second Tour and it broke my heart.

As strange as it sounds, I've made some cracking friends because of the injuries they sustained, and I have TELIC & HERRICK to thank for that! They give me the inspiration and the support I need to get up every day with what I face now. If they can do it then I'm damned sure I can They tell me to man up when I wibble and it does the job.

May be if they had got 4 or 5 years then they might realise what these brave men endured.

45 mortars u mean

Are they worse than the Rent Boys?

im not even getting into this argument