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Serial Complainer Found Not Guilty
UPDATE Tuesday, November 25, 2008
A DISABLED man who had been threatened by youths then used racially derogatory words while speaking to the police has been found not guilty of making offensive phone calls.
John Spare, 59, who is profoundly deaf, used derogatory terms to describe two black men he alleged assaulted him, in two calls to Derbyshire police, on February 5 and 6. 2007.He pleaded not guilty to both charges and told magistrates he believed his language was not offensive because he had "been brought up with it".
In September 2007, the Evening Telegraph reported how the city's police and council had received hundreds of complaints from Mr Spare.
Last week, a court heard that Mr Spare's words used to describe his alleged attackers – including the term "golliwog" – had led two civilian call-handlers to hang up.
The presiding magistrate Jill Albiston said she was satisfied that Mr Spare's words were not grossly offensive.
September 2007.
Self-styled campaigner John Spare has been warned to stop pestering police and council staff after inundating them with hundreds of complaints.Officials at Derby City Council have grown so tired of the 58-year-old's calls that they have threatened him with legal action if he makes more than one call a week to them.
Mr Spare said Derby Community Safety Partnership had given him the same ultimatum and Derbyshire police had told him he could be served with an Anti-Social Behaviour Order.
In the past decade, Mr Spare has also targeted several individuals with his barrage of complaints.
Among them was Boulton councillor Frank Leeming, who received up to seven calls a day between summer 2005 and summer 2006, both at home and at work.
Detective Chief Inspector Sam Slack said Mr Spare had exaggerated crimes to police.
But Mr Spare, of Shelmory Close, Allenton, said he would not stop campaigning.
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at 01:12 on September 12th, 2007
This is funny, Liam. Some people have nothing better to do with their time!
at 05:32 on September 12th, 2007
Thank you generaldecay Mr Spare should put his complaints in writing.
at 08:52 on November 13th, 2008
REMEMBER HITLER HE WAS JUST LIKE YOU AND YOUR READERSHIP-MOCKING,CONDEMMING,SILENCING AND DISPOSING OF ALL DISABLED PERSONS WHO HE CONSIDERS TO BE AN INFERIOR RACE.
I AM DEAFAND WAS TRYING TO ATTEND PUBLIC MEETINGS TO ASSIST DISABLED PERSONS BASED ON MY OWN EXPERIENCE AND MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE AND ALSO IMPROVE THE SURROUNDINGS IN WHICH I LIVED.
THANKFULLY I NO LONGER LIVE IN THE AREA AND NOTICE THAT THE AREA IS NOW A RUN DOWN SHITHOUSE WHERE PERSONS ARE BEING SHOT AND STABBED BY A GROUP CALLEDTHE ALLENTON 1, DUE TO THE EDUCATIONAL IGNORANCE OF PERSONS SUCH AS YOU WHO HAVE NEVER LIVED IN THE AREA OR HAVE YET TO ATTEND AN OPEN PUBLIC DEBATE.
WHEN IS THE LAST TIME ANYONE HEARD OF A NEWSPAPER EDITOR DOING ANYTHING TO FURTHER THE WELLBEING OF HIS FELLOW MAN,RATHER THAN TRYING TO HEAP PRAISE ON HIMSELF FOR CREATING SENSATIONALISM FOR HIMSELF HAVING NEVER ONCE RESEARCHED THE SUBJECT FOR WHICH HE HAS CONDEMNED THE INNOCENT VICTIM OF HIS OVER ZEALOUS NEWSPAPER ITEMS TO AN UNJUSTIFIABLE LIFE OF SCORN AND RIDICULE AFTER HE HAS GONE OUT OF HIS WAY TO PREVENT PERSONS BEING SHOT AND STABBED BY A GROUP OF THUGS FROM THE ETHNIC MINORITY WHILST THE POLICE CONTINUE TO SIT BACK AND DO NOTHING.
BY THE WAY I HAVE TO APPEAR IN COURT ON NOVEMBER THE 20TH 2008 ACCUSED OF RACISM AFTER 2 PERSONS HAD BEEN SHOT AND A THIRD STABBED AND KILLED BY THE SAME GROUP.
I NOTICE NONE OF THOSE REPORTS ARE NEVER PUBLISHED EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE PUBLISHED IN THE LOCAL PRESS AND ANNOUNCED OVER THE MEDIA NETWORK EACH DAY.
I TRUST BOTH YOU AND YOUR INFANTILE WEBSITE READERSHIP WILL BE THERE LAGER CAN OR MUG OF TEA IN HAND AND PEN BEHIND YOUR EARHOLES TRYING TO EXPLAIN AWAY THE RESULTS OF YOUR ACTIONS???
WOULD YOUR TIME NOT BE BETTER SPENT IN A MENTAL INSTITUTION WITH THE LOCAL COUNCILLOR OR SCRUBBING TOILETS CONSIDERING THE GARBAGE YOU CONTINUE TO PUBLISH ON YOUR WEBSITE?
I AM SUPREMELY PROUD TO CONTINUE TO BE IMMORTALISED ON YOUR WEBSITE FOR BEING A MAN OF SUBSTANCE AND FORESIGHTEDNESS,UNLIKE MOST OF THE POPULATION OF AMERICA WHO ARE FED ON A LIFE OF WAR MONGERING.
IN FACT I USE YOUR STORY ON MANY OCCASIONS TO ILLUSTRATE MY POINT AT PUBLIC LECTURES REGARDING VICTIMISATION AND DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION AGAINST DEAF PERSONS BY THE POLICE,PRESS AND LOCAL COUNCILLORS AND EACH TIME RECIEVE UNANIMOUS PRAISE FOR CONTINUALLY RAISING AND FURTHERING THE ISSUE WHICH POLITICIANS CONVENIENTLY WISH TO COVER UP.
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO USE YOUR WEBSITE AS A GLOWING EXAMPLE OF THE ABUSE OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
SADLY DERBY CITY COUNCIL,DERBYSHIRE CONSTABULARY ANDYOUR WEBSITE AND EDITOR, HAVE NOT MOVED ON FROM THE DAYS OF NAZISM AND WISH TO PROMOTE THE SILENCING OF ALL DISABLED MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND WISH TO HAVE THEM REMOVED ENMASS FROM SOCIETY OR PUBLIC DEBATE.
IF BEING DISABLED IS FUNNY AND WORTHY OF NEWSPAPER AND INTERNET CONDEMNATION WHAT ARE YOU PROPOSING TO DO WHEN YOU YOURSELF AND READERSHIP ARE AFFLICTED BY AGE OR DISABILITY OR SHOT IN THE LEG OR STABBED WHILST THE ROOF OF YOUR HOUSE IS STRIPPED BARE OF SLATES OR SET ALIGHT-"LAUGH OR CURSE AND SWEAR AT THE POLICE AND LOCAL COUNCILLORS AS I DID FOR NOT PERFORMING THEIR DUTIES SO THAT OTHERS WOULD NOT SUFFER THE SAME FATE?"
TALK ABOUT THE PRESS AND INTERNET BEING WORSE THAN USELESS,WHAT A PRIME EXAMPLE OF RANK FUTILENESS AND IGNORANCE YOU ARE TO SET BEFORE ANYONE?
YOURS MOST SINCERELY;
JOHN SPARE
"SERIAL COMPLAINER"
[EX ALLENTON DERBY UK]
at 04:47 on November 19th, 2008
Godwin's law *and* all caps - I'm strangely intrigued.