As Britain goes to shit!

Blogger Rachel Lucas pulls no punches...

I was going to give the Britain-is-fucked thing a rest for a few days but readers Rick and Wayne sent me another example and this one? This one PISSES ME OFF. On a personal level. These little shitstains are talking about men like my grandfather, who died so that said shitstains could someday be born. And I now completely mean it when I say that I wish he had not bothered.

The daughter of a Second World War RAF pilot who reprimanded a teenager who she accused of vandalising a war memorial has been convicted of assault.

Julie Lake, 50, believed the 15-year-old was one of a number of youths who had damaged the remembrance garden in her village dedicated to those killed fighting for Britain.

But Mrs Lake was arrested after giving a boy, whom she believed to be the ringleader, a talking-to and a 'cuff round the ear'.

She tackled him after she saw at least one youth riding a BMX bike through freshly-laid flower beds.

…Mrs Lake claimed she was performing a 'moral obligation' following months of anti-social behaviour and vandalism at the memorial. But weeks later she was arrested and yesterday was convicted of assault, criminal damage and a public order offence at North Avon Magistrates Court in Yate, near Bristol.

She was found guilty of criminal damage for angrily throwing a bicycle belonging to one of the youths into the road…

The judge rejected her claim that she was trying to perform a citizen's arrest and ordered her to pay £400 towards costs.

He said: 'I'm sure that having seen the damage to the flower beds, you simply lost your temper. I can understand you lost it, particularly because of your family relations in the war, and it is hardly surprising that you did. You reacted spontaneously, without thought for the consequences. You confronted the child with no plan in mind. The throwing of a bike into the road shows a complete loss of self-control, not the actions of someone executing a citizen's arrest.'

The trial - estimated to have cost taxpayers more than £100,000 - earlier heard how Mrs Lake was surrounded by up to 25 jeering youths by the memorial at the end of last year.

She told how the gang surrounded her, pushed her and shouted: 'You can't touch us, we're 15, we can do what the f*** we like.'

When the 15-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was questioned in court about the war memorial, he replied: 'It means nothing to me, I guess it's for some people who died in the war.'