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Drones at Gatwick
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Gatwick drone arrest couple receive £200k payout from Sussex Police
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-53041256
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Not strictly true. They received £55k in compensation & their lawyers got their £145k fee paid.Addickted said:Gatwick drone arrest couple receive £200k payout from Sussex Police
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£145K - ouch! Are you watching Southall?golfaddick said:
Not strictly true. They received £55k in compensation & their lawyers got their £145k fee paid.Addickted said:Gatwick drone arrest couple receive £200k payout from Sussex Police
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-53041256
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Twelve armed officers swooped on Mr and Mrs Gait's home, even though they did not possess any drones and had been at work during the reported sightings.
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And why does it cost £145k to sort it out?2
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This is a colossal waste of funds.
How the police got this so wrong is quite worrying. I dread to think what would have happened if they were black1 -
this could only have been more wrong if they were in prison at the time of the drone sighting !!North Lower Neil said:Twelve armed officers swooped on Mr and Mrs Gait's home, even though they did not possess any drones and had been at work during the reported sightings.
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Something is wrong with society when the couple only got 55K and the lawyers 145K.
Maybe they choose the wrong lawyers but even so, this is ridiculous.
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I don't disagree with the sentiment, but it's a bit misleading to imply they got 200k and only a quarter of it was left. Surely they got 55k + their solicitor bills covered, which is a little different.IT_Andy said:Something is wrong with society when the couple only got 55K and the lawyers 145K.
Maybe they choose the wrong lawyers but even so, this is ridiculous.
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Still stinks!JiMMy 85 said:
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but it's a bit misleading to imply they got 200k and only a quarter of it was left. Surely they got 55k + their solicitor bills covered, which is a little different.IT_Andy said:Something is wrong with society when the couple only got 55K and the lawyers 145K.
Maybe they choose the wrong lawyers but even so, this is ridiculous.
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Long read re-visiting the story. Most likely : no drones. But read and decide for yourselves
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/01/the-mystery-of-the-gatwick-drone?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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As someone that got stuck and out of pocket because of it, I like to pretend there was definitely a dronePragueAddick said:Long read re-visiting the story. Most likely : no drones. But read and decide for yourselves
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/01/the-mystery-of-the-gatwick-drone?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other5 -
I an age where people use their phones to film themselves picking their toe nails to climbing up Everest, I find it hard to believe that there wasn't one single video sighting of the Gatwick drone.
Maybe because their wasn't one!0 -
Didn’t someone get a nice big contract (£5M) from this?0
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Member of the Chumocracy?guinnessaddick said:Didn’t someone get a nice big contract (£5M) from this?0 -
They did, not the best kit either.guinnessaddick said:Didn’t someone get a nice big contract (£5M) from this?
I had it on good authority that there was a drone, not read the article yet though so thanks for posting @PragueAddick
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BBC
The UK is set to become home to the world's largest automated drone superhighway within the next two years.
The drones will be used on the 164-mile Skyway project connecting towns and cities, including Cambridge and Rugby.
It is part of a £273m funding package for the aerospace sector which will be revealed by Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng on Monday.
Other projects include drones delivering mail to the Isles of Scilly and medication across Scotland
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He he the jocks are going to be out with rifles shooting down the “methadone birdies”!MrWalker said:BBC
The UK is set to become home to the world's largest automated drone superhighway within the next two years.
The drones will be used on the 164-mile Skyway project connecting towns and cities, including Cambridge and Rugby.
It is part of a £273m funding package for the aerospace sector which will be revealed by Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng on Monday.
Other projects include drones delivering mail to the Isles of Scilly and medication across Scotland
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