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Creative Altering of Election Posters - Criminal Damage?

karlh · 2009-05-21 12:32:11

I've head conflicting opinions on whether altering/defacing election posters is considered criminal damage and whether removing them completely is theft. I personally consider them nothing but litter so fail to see how this could be true. I know someone is unlikely to be prosecuted for such an offense but does anyone have…

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21-05-2009 1:32pm

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karlh

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I've head conflicting opinions on whether altering/defacing election posters is considered criminal damage and whether removing them completely is theft.

I personally consider them nothing but litter so fail to see how this could be true.

I know someone is unlikely to be prosecuted for such an offense but does anyone have the official word on this?

no reason...

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#2 21-05-2009 1:35pm
ben bedlam

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I've never heard of a prosecution, but I've always heard that defacing or removing a political candidate's posters is illegal. If I had my way however, I'd burn every one of them.

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#3 21-05-2009 1:37pm
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They're someone else's property so yes.

There's a recent thread about this.

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