Couldn’t he have suggested to his wife that she gets a job instead of this?
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January 7, 2013 at 3:35pm
How cheap. And you know, that makes it worse.
In The Times, today:
BUTCHER GAVE PHONE TO JUDGE
Evidence was also given by butcher Jesmond Micallef who described how (Judge Ray) Pace and his family were his clients. One day he told the judge that his daughter was due to start the law course.
He asked him whether he could help her, if required. He then asked the judge whether he owed him anything for such help and the judge asked him for a mobile phone, on which, he said, the daughter could call him.
He therefore bought a phone from GO mobile and gave it to him. Most of the time this mobile was kept by Dr Pace’s wife and she used it to call him for any meat orders.
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Cheap and depressing.
It wasn’t a money-saving choice. It was a scrounge-something-for-free choice.
And Ray Pace thought nothing of compromising Jesmond Micallef by using a phone registered in his name to organise his other shady business.
I have to say that at first I was deeply shocked by Ray Pace’s involvement in this story.
I was hoping against hope that some tragic misunderstanding has lead to his being charged with corruption, trading in influence and so on.
However, as the more sordid details started emerging, I felt nothing but contempt for this man, but not because he fell from grace. We are not saints and we can all really fall from grace.
However, when it started to become clear how cheap Ray Pace was (and is) my shock turned to contempt. You are indeed very right: the man being cheap makes the matter so much worse.
I’ve just been joking with my husband and telling him that I should have married a judge, and then I wouldn’t have had to work to afford a mobile phone and a car.
And what’s more, I’ve just paid Eur400 to get the car repaired which I could have got for free if I was married to a judge.
And my husband calmly replied “I’m sorry, dear, that I did not live up to your expectations, but look on the bright side, at least you did not end up with a husband who has to sign in at the police station every day, and my assets are not frozen”.
Ma nafx hux tal-biki jew tad-dahk?
Veru trid tkun medjokru bla kuxjenza u korrot biex taghmel dawn l-affarijiet.
Tghid anke x-xirja tal-laham kien jiehu b’xejn?
When I read this I suddenly feel a eerie cold feeling creeping up my spine. Is it possible that such people exist ?
I think you all got it wrong.
Asking for a mobile from the butcher had nothing to do with ‘being cheap’. It had to do with taking the precaution of having the mobile registered in the butcher’s name so that the conversations would be from the butcher’s daughter to her father and vice-versa.
The telephone system does not distinguish who is in possession of the mobile and no action is taken unless the mobile is reported lost or stolen.
This puts the former judge in deeper trouble because it proves that his schemes were premeditated and not a slip of the moment.
It reads like a fairytale of the old sort:
“One day, the judge’s wife began to wonder what other kinds of meat the butcher kept hidden behind that counter of his, and she telephoned him to enquire about the special sausage she heard he reserved for his favourite clients…”
Unbelievable! is this the type of person on whom we taxpayers shower thousands of euro in the hope of obtaining justice?
Is justice served now?