Nine News Queensland has officially declared our system of justice, based on the assumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law, is outdated and no longer of any use in our modern society.

They did this in their 6pm bulletin on Thursday night where they ruled there was no place for the state’s court system as they found a woman arrested by police for stealing a golf buggy as… how can we put this as bluntly as possible …. guilty as all get out!

Here’s newsreader Andrew Lofthouse, providing an update on an earlier story that showed vision of a woman carting off a golf buggy from a bayside golf club: “A buggy bandit has been nabbed by police; the 27-year-old was allegedly caught on camera last week stealing a golf cart from a Redlands golf club.

“Officers tracked the woman down yesterday to a bus stop in Redlands, carting her away in the back of a police van.”

Nabbed by police indeed!

Notice how some scribe at the station – and we assume a journalist, probably a tyro, had some input into what Lofthouse read out – thought it prudent to throw an “allegedly” into the mix somewhere even when they are making it abundantly clear the cops have the thief dead to rights. The only thing alleged was some CCTV footage!

Oh, how the washed up old hacks who compile this column wish for some old fashioned but long-forgotten journalism whereby just a few seconds of simple rewriting for that Lofthouse spiel would give the woman arrested some benefit of doubt before a court system ruled one way or the other!

Nevertheless, as we can all see from the graphic at top, senior magistrate Andrew Lofthouse convicted and fined the woman $2000 in default three months jail. Perhaps a bit too harsh in our view but standards have to be maintained, right?

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