Robbie wrote:
>
> Svenne wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 May 2008 23:59:23 +0100, Alex Heney
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 10 May 2008 11:46:45 GMT, Svenne wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sat, 10 May 2008 11:41:16 +0100, Claire Rand
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> so a couple, both 17, who can quite legally do most things in the uk, go
> >>>> on holiday.. and come home to face arrest...
> >>> What if the girl in question finds that she is also being prosecuted
> >>> for appearing in a public place without a male family guardian and not
> >>> wearing a Burka, thus exposing her hair, each strand of which was a
> >>> dagger in the heart of the martyrs?
> >>>
> >>> If she was found guilty by a British court, would she be buried up to
> >>> her waist on Wimbledon Common and stoned to death or sent back to
> >>> Izlamistan for punishment?
> >
> >> This law ONLY applies to .ual offences committed against children,
> >> and where the act would be an offence if carried out in the UK.
> >
> > What would happen if a twenty year old British man went on holiday to
> > Germany with his thirteen year old British girlfriend and while in
> > Berlin celebrated her fourteenth birthday by shagging the living
> > daylights out of her and then repeated the celebration twice a day for
> > a fortnight?
> >
> > Would he be liable for prosecution upon return to the UK?
> >
> > Svenne
> >
>
> Under this bill, yes. What he did was legal in Germany (assuming 14 is
> the AOC) but not legal in the UK. The law would be applied as if he had
> done the act in the UK.
Presumably the laws are applied equally to any nationality entering the UK,
the same as any national living in UK must abide by e.g. the UK traffic laws,
UK Tax system etc. |