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Old May 31st, 2012 #1
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Default Joseph Owens Police Snitch?

This story is from todays Daily Mail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ers-house.html


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Police have been ordered to return private CCTV footage of a firebomb attack to a man with a violent past - despite fears it could help him find and kill the person responsible.
Merseyside Police had argued for retaining footage belonging to Joseph 'Joey' Owens, who had gangster connections, to avoid 'indirectly assisting or encouraging' him to carry out a revenge attack for the arson attack on his mother's home.
But today two High Court judges disagreed with the plea from police, and ruled the force's chief constable did not have power to retain the video from the CCTV system set up by Owens, who had shortly before the fire released a book exposing 'wannabe gangsters' and 'police informants' in Liverpool.
Two judges rejected the chief constable’s appeal against a magistrates’ court ruling that the footage should be returned under the provisions of the 1897 Police (Property) Act.
Sir John Thomas and Mr Justice King described in a joint written judgment how the mother’s house in Liverpool was deliberately set on fire in June 2008. She was alone at the time but escaped without injury.
The video footage was seized as part of subsequent police investigations. It showed a petrol can at the front door and the person believed to have caused the fire, though the images were unclear.
Despite all efforts, including enhancing the images, the police could not identity who had set the fire, and the investigation was closed.
Owens applied to Liverpool City magistrates court for the return of the tape in December 2008 but was opposed by the chief constable on the grounds that he might inflict violent injury on any person that he identified on it.
Owens, a well-known gangland figure in Liverpool, has several violence-related convictions to his name and has even been charged with murder.
In 1982 he served eight months behind bars for sending razor blades in the post to members of Liverpool's Jewish community.
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He was again jailed in 1994 for carrying CS gas and knuckle dusters while working as a clubland bouncer.
In 1998 Owens was charged with the murder of a nightclub security boss, but the charge was eventually dropped when a key prosecution witness withdrew his evidence.
Det Sgt Deborah Weir, who was in charge of the arson investigation, told the city court she believed that if Owens saw the tape he would 'seek revenge against the actual offender or a mistaken innocent third party', said the judges.
She believed 'that person would be killed or seriously injured'.
Owens had earlier identified to the police a possible suspect who had threatened him and asked to see the video as he thought he might be able to recognise the offender from his stance or gait.
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