Joke Justice

Last April, a woman called Renee Slater was arrested for entering a candidate called Helena Torry in the Aberdeen city council elections. “Helena” was a shop display dummy and Renee was done under the Representation of the People Act. Her case came up this month. A sheriff actually sat through two days of “evidence” before he deciding that there was no case to answer and setting Ms. Slater free without a stain on her character. Pity he couldn’t have sent the jobsworths who brought the case to gaol for a decade or two to encourage others.