Scottish, my foot. Not only is Stephen Smith a Maltese citizen, but he is properly Maltese.
Watch him being interviewed one minute into this video. Not only is there no trace of a British (still less Scottish) accent, but he actually speaks English with a heavy mittilklesss accent that is the result of being Maltese. The way he pronounces ‘market’ is a dead give-away. It couldn’t be anything else but a member of the Maltese mittilkless.
Also, it’s just occurred to me that this is neither the voice nor the accent (British) of the man who answered what is supposed to be Smith’s mobile phone, said he doesn’t want to comment, and rang off.
Let’s think back. Why was he described as British by the police and on all the news media as soon as it happened that Wednesday night? The eyewitnesses heard them both arguing and none of them remarked that one of them was British or speaking English.
So it must all have been because his car has British number-plates and his surname is Smith. But he is a Maltese man and a Maltese citizen, and now we have to ask why his company records don’t give his ID card number but a different sort of number.
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The bloke driving the bus has a distinctive British regional accent. Is he the one who answered the phone?
[Daphne – No.]
The driver’s accent is a Yorkshire accent, probably West Yorkshire.
That is definitely Maltese accented English, as spoken by Smith.
So why is Scotland getting all protective over this guy?
He is just a wog with an Anglo/Celtic surname, one of many in Malta and abroad.
[Daphne – Because they read in the Maltese press that he is one of theirs. But he is not. He is one of ours – or rather, more properly, one of the mittilkless.]
He must be related to our Jeff then.
If the DOI /OPM took it upon themselves to release the statement, then no matter the time limitations, their release has a duty to be thorough.
Additionally, they are the ones with ALL the means at their disposal to check these facts, which you and I know does not take more than a minute.
Therefore with these means at their disposition, the probability of inaccuracy is not high, but the intention to produce an inaccurate picture is, and was.
Scotland isn’t getting all protective at all. Apart from one short article in the Scotsman, there hasn’t been any significant coverage as far as I’m aware (and I do read Scottish newspapers and watch Scottish news).
The Scottish government and newspapers are addressing important issues like devolution and land reform (apart from the Sun, which is busy addressing issues pertaining to Jordan – the enhanced person, not the country).
Daphne it doesn’t matter what his accent sounds like or if he has a Maltese ID card or even a Maltese passport. The Brits will invoke consular efforts if he has a British passport. He can be a born and bred Maltese guy who got his British passport via his parents. The Brits still have an obligation to have their consulate act on his behave.
Well this Smith doesn’t tally with the Smith which was pictured earlier on last week. Could it be he’s not the real Smith in the said video?
[Daphne – Of course it’s the same man. I didn’t even look at the name at the top of the screen. I just went by the face and only now went back to check for a name after seeing your comment.]
Mid 1966 Paul McCartney does not tally with early 1967 to present Paul McCartney.
Check it out, it is no lie.
That’s def not an English/Scottish accent
There is a hint of Scottish in the way he pronounces the ‘r’s but then again his father IS Scottish after all.
It’s definitely a Maltese accent. Do bear in mind that children in general tend to pick up their mother’s accent, not their father’s, when parents have different accents.
He rolls his ‘r’s’ – just like Cyrus
Sounds like the prime minister.
Alias Smith and Jones..
The devil is in the detail. I ran a check on his car, it has an export marker. He probably never registered it in Malta and just because it had British number plates, the press assumed he was Scottish. Not only is the car is untaxed in the UK (you still have to pay road tax if you’re living abroad for a couple of months) but it’s got an export marker i.e. sold to a non-resident.
Check is as follows:
Vehicle enquiry:
Registration number: FE10 SPV
Make: Vauxhall
✗ Untaxed
Tax due: 11 August 2014 (NOTE: means that a refund of the car tax was asked for, otherwise, if it just was a normal expiry, it would have ended at the end of the month)
✔ MOT
Expires: 02 April 2015
New keepers must get tax before using the vehicle. Please be aware that if you have taxed, made a SORN or had an MOT in the last 5 days these details may not have updated.
Vehicle details
6 month rate £99.00 12 month rate £180.00 6 monthly by direct debit totalling £94.50 12 monthly by direct debit totalling £180.00 Monthly by direct debit totalling £189.00 (Monthly payment of approximately £15.75)
Vehicle make VAUXHALL
Date of first registration 31 March 2010
Year of manufacture 2010
Cylinder capacity (cc) 1956cc CO₂Emissions 154 g/km Fuel type DIESEL
*Export marker Yes*
Vehicle status Not taxed
Vehicle colour SILVER
Vehicle type approval M1
You say “He probably never registered it in Malta and just because it had British number plates, the press assumed he was Scottish” but this doesn’t really stand either, because if his car registration plate begins “FE” it means the car is from Nottingham, some few hundred miles from Scotland.
He may have dual nationality if his father was British.
Spot on! How did you find this footage? Now this is why I always get the news from this website!
[Daphne – Somebody sent it in.]
“The way he pronounces ‘market’ is a dead give-away.”
Just that?
He’s as Maltese as they come, isn’t he.
I think we’ve all been taken for a long ride, but there are now more questions than answers, mainly because of Sheehan’s actions and attitude.
Why would he drag in the whole police force if there was something more sinister than shooting at someone who hit his master’s car and drove off?
We know that he had no qualms about shooting at a moving vehicle without justification because he did rope in the whole police force. In this case, it would seem that to his mind his actions were justifiable, or at the very least he believed that he will suffer no consequences for his actions.
So far, so good. No mystery there, for it is a well known fact that many police officers know their cop movies more than the regulations they should be abiding by: If you flee the scene of crime the cop has a right to shoot at you (which is not the case at all).
But anything beyond that and it becomes a mystery. If indeed, as Daphne seems to believe, there was anything highly criminal in his relationship with Smith, it means he felt protected even at this level of criminal activity. This would be highly worrying, of course, but it makes little sense. It’s too messy. Why would he do such a thing? The alternative is that he was blinded by rage and wasn’t thinking at all – which is also a likely scenario.
The eventual tampering with the PIRS only adds spice to the mystery. Was Smith’s intoxication level at issue here? But if this were the case the evidence would still exist on paper. And why would anyone want to protect Smith? Or was it just a third party who wished to compound matters even further? What did the PIRS report contain exactly? Anything that contradicts anyone important?
Can the DOI please help?
E, le bilhaqq, the DOI is part of the problem.