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Unknown1234567

Member since
February 2024

7 posts

Posted Fri November 29, 2024 1:10pmReport post

My husband had the knock in Feb this year. We can only afford a legal aid solicitor we just don't have the money to be able to afford anything expensive. The legal aid solicitors we was given specialises in motor crimes and hasn't spoken to my husband the whole time. He is rude and shakes his head and my husband feels he is judgmental. He went for his second interview where they told him they found 35 images spreading over 1 month and again my husbands solicitor barely spoke and spent the whole time laughing and joking with the police officers. We're just so worried. My question is can anyone advise a good legal aid solitor that just communicates and helps and also can you police withhold information they have found from the second interview?



thank you

Mummy-to-lots

Member since
November 2024

14 posts

Posted Fri November 29, 2024 11:02pmReport post

This sound horrific! I'm so sorry I cannot advise you as my person hasn't yet received his interview (due next week with duty solicitor). Yours sounds very unprofessional and over familiar with the police, neither of which I would feel comfortable with representing my person x x

rainyday52

Member since
April 2023

458 posts

Posted Sat November 30, 2024 9:40amReport post

Just want to commiserate with you - our son had a duty solicitor when first arrested who had been in the police before retraining as a solicitor and like yours joked around with them and asked for cups of tea for himself etc. He seemed disinterested in anything to do with our son's case and his reply when our son said he wanted to get things over with asap, just shrugged and said 'well just say you're guilty then.' So that's what he did, and good job he actually is guilty because it would have been rubbish advice if not! We have felt that in our son's case the police think that they can treat him as casually as they want because he won't dare react or complain because of the fear of exposure (he's also had threats to tell his work because he politely reminded the OIC that he had provided his device passwords more than once already when he was asked for them another time - turns out the police were entering one of them wrongly and our son ended up helping them enter it correctly because of the threat of them telling work and then losing his job if he didn't.) It feels so much like bullying behaviour but of course we all bite our tongues as we live in fear of making everything worse.

I hope someone can suggest a legal aid solicitor for you who is genuinely interested in doing their best for your person xx