He said they offered favours, including a licence to commit crime, to offenders in prison who agreed to "write off" unsolved offences and to offenders in police stations who agreed to have extra offences added to their list of crimes to be "taken into consideration" (TIC) by the court.
And when he started writing No Offence as a comedy, it didn't work.
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Because to write for performance was an offence against some unwritten code - although as it happened they also wanted to perform.
His offence was to write in his blog that the Sudanese army has suffered some defeats in Darfur against rebel fighters and that its morale is low.The capital of Chad, N'Djamena, was fortified following reports that rebels were moving towards it from the east of the country.
A series of officers acknowledged at the inquests that this was unprecedented: it was a disciplinary offence not to write in a pocketbook, which is a contemporaneous note, very difficult to amend without it being obvious, and therefore persuasive, credible evidence in a courtroom.
"The Italians could not understand – and neither can I – why Sánchez had been allowed to remain on the field despite a passable imitation of Rocky Marciano, when one of their number had been banished for a less serious and far less obvious offence," wrote Jimmy Hill in the Observer.
"No US extradition treaty currently in force lists espionage as an extraditable offence," wrote Ms Elsea, the legal researcher for Congress.
But rather than writing about murder – which seems to obsess them – they would write about minor crimes, such as parking offences.
I do not think anyone will believe that I write letters with any intent to cause offence".
