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Adam Johnson Trial Verdict

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Rober33 said:
and the legal advisors?

Maybe Byrne would have contacted you if she'd known of your extensive legal experience, taking notes in court.
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Who knows what safc said to the advisors? Who knows what they asked for legal advise on? Who knows whether they chose good advisors?

Saying 'oh well we obtained independent legal advice' doesn't somehow exonerate you for continuing to employ a nonce, and I somehow doubt they went to the NSPCC or whoever to get their advice.
 
prehab26 said:
One says she was told at a meeting on March 2nd


One says what AJ said in his subsequent interview wasn't disclosed to the club

2 complete different comments

@Rober33
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We're referring to the latest 'Breaking News' in which the police are saying they told Byrne that he had messaged the girl and kissed her at a meeting regarding safeguarding children following his arrest.

The police stated in court that they did not disclose what he had admitted to in his interview during this meeting.
 
Rober33 said:
That's your opinion but it wasn't the opinion of the PFA or independent legal advisor's, so to suggest the club just allowed someone who was known to have abused a child to continue playing for them is a disgraceful accusation not backed up by any fact.
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And therefore surprising that the club haven't denied it, despite going to the effort of producing a statement denying things said during the trial about their conduct.
 
Tadger said:
Why do people keep saying it wasn't the club's place to ascertain guilt? Nobody said it was.

This is about a club being provided with information that at the very least rasies eyebrows about the conduct of one of it's players and given the current climate regarding child sex offences, the club should have taken him out of the public eye.

I can't believe people don't see how bad this makes us look.
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The club deliberately threw the whole "he hadn't pleaded guilty" line into the statement as a red herring. That is entirely irrelevant - the fact that he hadn't pleaded guilty doesn't change the fact that he had done it, and the club knew he had done it.
 
CARLOS CLASS said:
Don't agree. If she is swiftly removed then the club can move on with its head held high. She is ceo and a solicitor by trade. There is no hiding place for her.
If she isn't removed though it sends the message that her actions were/are condoned by SAFC which would tarnish the club badly and for a long time
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In my view, it will be a while before this club can hold its head high. It will always be viewed as SAFC's decision, irrespective if she was at the helm and had the final say. That's how it works.

If true, it certainly changes my view of the club. How could it not?
 
Rober33 said:
That is a very different thing to knowing that he'd done it.
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Would you continue to employ a teacher accused of touching up a kid? Would you continue someone in even, say, a shop, who was accused of meeting children in your shop, using the position in the shop to get leverage over them, and then sexually exploiting them?
 
ajthemackem said:
The Police seem to have got themselves in a twist over this like.
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Before the accused has even been sentenced they're sending a senior investigating officer out for TV interviews.

I'll expect to see her on the Jonathan Ross show next :rolleyes:
 
Sweeper said:
He confessed to kissing her in the interview - the transcript of the interview was given to the club. What are you missing here? He did it and the club knew he'd done it.
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I'm missing a source which says that the club had access to and reviewed these documents, so far what has been said only agrees with what the club have stated which is that they passed the said documents straight to the QC.
 
Sweeper said:
Wake up for fucks sake - what's embarrassing is that the club knew what he'd done, and decided that they'd prefer to stay up than do the right thing. People are annoyed about it. If your mates don't care, you probably need new mates.
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Personally I don't even think it was about staying up as much as thinking about the pennies.
 
janey said:
Yet the officer in Court said this


“Myself and a colleague went to meet Margaret Byrne to discuss the offences and consider safeguarding for any other young people he may come in contact with through his work as a professional football player.”

DI Sampson went on to say that what Johnson had told police in interview was not disclosed to the club.
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So two policemen went to the club on their own and had a discussion about Johnson. Whether they discussed the evidence with the club is irrelevant. It was at another meeting where Johnson, his father, his QC and your CEO where evidence was provided.

In fact this second meeting, whether it came before or after the other one, compounds the seriousness of the whole sorry mess. Two meetings really should have had the alarm bells ringing.
 
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