Post by: loulou on May 07, 2007, 08:14:34 pm
Calls for a posthumous pardon for "Metric Martyr" Steven Thoburn have ben made after the European Union scrapped plans to ban Imperial measures.
Mr Thoburn was convicted at Sunderland Magistrates' Court six years ago of using scales that could not weigh in metric units at his Southwick greengrocer's shop.
He died in March 2004, days after learning his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights had been rejected. He was just 39.
Now fellow campaigner Neil Herron is planning to press for a pardon after the EU confirmed it had dropped plans to make Metric-only measurements compulsory from 2009.
He died in March 2004, days after learning his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights had been rejected. He was just 39.
Now fellow campaigner Neil Herron is planning to press for a pardon after the EU confirmed it had dropped plans to make Metric-only measurements compulsory from 2009.
Post by: oldspice on May 07, 2007, 08:16:22 pm
Well I'm sorry he died, I really am, but metric scales have been available for at least 20 years.
Post by: smurfboy on May 07, 2007, 09:06:47 pm
Post by: lorri on May 07, 2007, 11:38:53 pm
Post by: oldspice on May 08, 2007, 08:07:49 am