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At this point my level of anxiety was increasing rapidly and the sweat was beginning to pour from me, as I knew that if I was approached and questioned by the police, the only action that they needed to take was to....

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go to their squad car, get on their computer system and it would have showed up within the space of two minutes that I had been due in court to face charges three hours previously, or that I was, in effect, a fugitive from justice.Not only would I have been looking at six to nine months for the initial charge, but I also would have been done for absconding.I was looking at going down for the best part of a year and a half, and, don’t forget, all because I slept on a bench in the, so called, freest country in the world, where individuals were supposedly blessed with certain unalienable rights.A slightly frightening scenario, don’t you fucking think ?.