Roy’s up in court today and though we don’t know which judge will hear his case, his brief may well have interest in the following from Private Eye in February 2003:
'Strange goings-on at Trafford Magistrates court where would be beaks have been turned away from the bench en masse.
'Around a dozen people - all due to join the bench this year - were rejected by the Duchy of Lancaster.....for "political bias"....local magistrates say it's bizarre for every single applicant to be refused.....
'The failure to appoint the new lay magistrates may, however, create work for Trafford's new stipendiary magistrate, district judge David Tapp. Judge Tapp was arrested in November 2001 along with prominent Liverpool lawyer Kevin Dooley (who was struck off by the law society and remains under police investigation), district judge Paul Firth and 6 other magistrates court clerks.
'After a six month investigation into serious corruption allegations, involving Premiership football tickets, it was decided that no further action would be taken against Tapp, Firth or three of the clerks; but he has never again sat in a Liverpool court. He was given the new job in trafford at the end of 2002.’
(NB: No one at Red Issue is suggesting that any judge at Trafford magistrates is anything other than an upstanding, honest professional, whose only interest lies in serving the people of the borough and seeing that the law is upheld. We’re merely highlighting an article which has long been in the public domain.)
Other information:
Justice Tapp’s former associate Kevin Dooley was also a former associate of Royston Evans Esq., the ex-Liverpool manager.
The outrageously bent Kevin Dooley passed away earlier this year and since his death BackBeat (who have maintained a long-standing interest in the now-deceased scouse twat, for reasons we won’t go into here) has learnt that he was implicated in laundering drug money on a massive scale – primarily the proceeds of heroin importation into Liverpool – and until very recently was under the surveillance of the NCS.