Another nasty "lawyer"

[All Line Rover]

Following on from the thread about the racist solicitor on a VTWC service, here is an equally abhorrent person, though not train related:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4211496/Petition-Ronald-Coyne-expelled-Cambridge.html.

Cambridge law students are generally a friendly and down to earth bunch. Then again, Nick Griffin studied at Cambridge, so...

 

[Kite159]

Without clicking on the Daily Fail website to give them advertising revenue is this about the student who tried to burn a £20 in front of a homeless guy in Cambridge?

 

[AlterEgo]

Interesting he was an Independence YES voter and also in the Conservative Club at Cambridge! I thought ne'er the twain shall meet?

 

[Busaholic]

Interesting he was an Independence YES voter and also in the Conservative Club at Cambridge! I thought ne'er the twain shall meet?

Don't you believe it - behind the scenes a lot of the more swivel-eyed were hoping, even praying, for independence for Scotland, and would like it for Wales too. Then England could join with those bowler-hatted zealots from Ulster.

 

[All Line Rover]

Without clicking on the Daily Fail website to give them advertising revenue is this about the student who tried to burn a £20 in front of a homeless guy in Cambridge?

I can certainly understand that, though I have reservations about the extent to which extensive quotes from news websites qualify as fair use. Then again, I'm not the one hosting the quote. Here is a sufficient extract:

A homeless man who says he was taunted by a Cambridge University student has spoken of his 'disgust' at what happened.

Ryan Davies, 31, says he was sleeping on the streets when he was teased by law student Ronald Coyne, who held out the £20 before pulling it back and saying, 'I'll give you some change, I've changed it into fire.'

Ryan... thought his luck was in - until the Pembroke College student set the money alight.

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Coyne, 18, a first-year law student at Pembroke College, was dressed in a bow tie and tails when he taunted the rough sleeper.

A petition has now been set up calling for him to be expelled from the University. There has also been calls for him to work 200 hours in a homeless shelter.

Commenting on the petition, Anne Baynham, from Newent, said: 'He needs to learn that you can't treat people this way and then just go about your privileged life with no consequences.'

Others have suggested he must face some sort of punishment and that he 'does not deserve the privilege of education at the Cambridge University'.

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The BBC also has an article, which is where I came across the story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-38931710.

 

[Phil.]

Following on from the thread about the racist solicitor on a VTWC service, here is an equally abhorrent person, though not train related:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4211496/Petition-Ronald-Coyne-expelled-Cambridge.html.

Cambridge law students are generally a friendly and down to earth bunch. Then again, Nick Griffin studied at Cambridge, so...

Why title a thread "Another nasty Lawyer". He's studying law at Cambridge - he's a student not a Lawyer.
If you want a really nasty Lawyer - albeit one who's just been struck off - go for Phil Shiner.

 

[RichmondCommu]

He looks like a bit of a gimp to me.

 

[Mag_seven]

Why title a thread "Another nasty Lawyer". He's studying law at Cambridge - he's a student not a Lawyer.

Funnily enough the chap in the other incident wasn't a lawyer either.

 

[Cowley]

He looks like a bit of a gimp to me.

A bit of a mook too.

 

[miami]

Wikipedia has determined quite correctly that the daily mail is not a reliable source - like quoting newsthunp. I would encourage people to find notable sources before posting here.