TimB wrote:
> On May 10, 6:36 pm, Palindrome wrote:
>
>> Yep. If a person chooses to go to another country and chooses to break
>> its laws - then, subject to a fair trial and fair treatment, they should
>> suffer the consequences. If they and the country concerned are willing
>> to accept a trial and punishment in the UK, then, why not?
>
> But that's not what's being proposed. We're talking about a person who
> chooses to go to another country and break *our* laws, doing something
> which may in fact be entirely legal in the host country.
>
> What's the next step? Police waiting in the arrivals lounge of all
> incoming flights from Amsterdam, ready to arrest travellers for the
> drugs they legally took while there?
>
I'm sorry - but haven't we had that for years? If you take the old wife
out on a boating trip beyond the 12 mile limit and drop her overboard
fixed to an anchor and smeared in tinned tuna - won't the police get a
tad interested?
Somewhat different I know, but it does establish the principle that the
UK authorities will get involved even when the crime wasn't committed in
the UK.
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Sue
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