Passed by and saw this thread and some interesting and insightful comments. To add my 5 eggs so to speak .... the fine I was shocked by how small it was in terms of the expected verdict predicted and hoped for by some. However small as it may be it is still a criminal record against her. Still a court appearance against her. No doubt every time she travels in the future there will be a electronic mark against her passport. Entering a country or applying for a visa or if in the future she applies for dual citizenship or a residency permit. It will go against her for the rest of her life. Over a certain period of time that might relax but it will never go away. That’s the tragedy of the mistakes that young woman has made through sheer selfishness and lack of accountability. She comes from a good family too. I think comments made about her family in the press are uncalled for because they are not bad people in my opinion at least. Sadly children do stupid things even at her age where you think she should know better by now at 24 or 25. But her sense of entitlement and the potential risk of endangering somebody or a plane load of people’s lives is where the line is drawn so to speak. I think for Barbados to be pontificating about making her an example, well they fucked up on that royally because fining her that much money is not making an example of her it’s making a mockery out of their own statements and judiciary and moral system that they made very clear would be honoured. They can send a man to prison for less than her actions but fine her. Either the full story is not given or they’ve back-pedalled on their own views. Her boyfriend should be held accountable too both of them should have been. They chose to go to Barbados. They were not summoned by law to go nor have a pressing emergency issue to go. It was two fingers up to the world on her and the boyfriend’s part. Not even her statements or any statements made in the future will change anything or make her look better. The best thing she can do is go home, stay home, abide by the law and start behaving like an intelligent, thoughtful person and start living with some humility. It’s one thing saying as she said after degrading herself on national television that she makes mistakes etc etc but most learn from them especially something as extreme as that was. I say serious because she lost her Miss GB title then proceeded to make it worse for herself by treating the Loose Women and the next winner and speaking to them as if they were shit. If she isn’t going to learn from this she’ll have no hope. Maybe she will. Hopefully she will show her family, their name and reputation some respect and her fellow people that she goes near by abiding the laws. Also judging by her incessant mouthing off, less gob more action but I doubt the latter as many suspect she’ll milk the publicity for all its worth, I could be and hopefully am wrong
this should be interesting..
