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[Carlos]

It's not a trifling matter.

I'd read that as well, what a weirdo.

I personally feel these sub 2 year sentences for non fatal strangulation seems light given the outcome could be so different in minutes or even seconds!

[Simon]

What would make you happy? A longer sentence? You'd be like the cat who got the cream.

Maybe a tag would be the cherry on top?

[Jobbo]

It's not a trifling matter.

I'd read that as well, what a weirdo.

I personally feel these sub 2 year sentences for non fatal strangulation seems light given the outcome could be so different in minutes or even seconds!

I guess the CPS didn't think they could make attempted murder stick, but it does seem a light sentence for what is effectively that.

As for the trifle revelation; blimey that's quite niche. I assume his partner knew of this allegation too. She is incredibly calm in dealing with this publicly; that's a real feat on Twitter. Poor thing. I hope she can move on with her life.

[Jobbo]

Oh it's that Chris! The Rover 800 fan. Clearly an awful business - I had no idea this was an ongoing story.

[Swervin_Mervin]

Not sure where the right place to post this is, but the long silence of output from Pollits Projects has been explained today.

That's terrible, I had noticed the tone of his twitter output get darker earlier in the year but didn't think it would end up like that.

Same. I haven't ever watched the Mondeo vid as I simply wasn't interested, but apparently that's highly disturbing in light of what's happened.

I struggle to believe that he's fundamentally a wrong 'un though - it rather seems to me (knowing very little of what's truly gone on and maybe just trying to se the best in someone) that he's spiralled into a very deep abyss with his mental health.

[ZedLeg]

Yeah he seemed to take the Car and Classic stuff falling through really badly.

[tim]

Smelt of DPD like behavior to me, at least what I saw on twatter. A mate of a mate knows him and apparently said has no recollection of what he did.

I wonder what happened to all the cars and the £17.5k he was given. I hope she got some benefit from it at least.

[mik]

That's pretty shitty. I've seen a few folks piling on with "always knew he was a wrong un" type comments. Maybe they knew him and it was fair? Maybe not. People love to hate for some reason.

Whilst I didn't wish him any hardship, I also didn't contribute to the recent-ish whip-around as there are loads of things to watch nowadays, and
a/ I didn't find the content of the vids particularly exciting
b/ I didn't find Chris's delivery fantastically engaging

So I don't think I would have realised any benefit.

Mad/sad situation though.....

[Rich B]

as someone who watches a fair amount of car content on youtube, bizarrely i’ve never heard of him/been pushed any of his content.

[Jobbo]

Nor me Rich, and I didn't read any mags he wrote for. I did see the Twitter fundraiser for him though, and that he spunked a large amount of the money raised on respraying his cheap Jag, so he struck me as someone who didn't live in the real world. The trifle thing is amusing in a scurrilous way, the strangulation absolutely is not. Can't be excused by mental health issues either; prison seems well deserved.

[integrale_evo]

Also never seen / heard of him which seems odd given the amount of car crap I watch and people I know through cars!

[ZedLeg]

He wasn't a particularly big name tbh.

I found him through "average car" twitter and he made some good content for Car and Classic but as I said above he seemed to go to bits when that fell through.

[mik]

I found him through "average car" twitter and he made some good content for Car and Classic but as I said above he seemed to go to bits when that fell through.

I remember a vid with him & Richard Brunning getting an Austin A30 going after years (decades?) in storage. I got bored after a few minutes, but I've just searched for it and it's been set to "private" by Car & Classic.

[JonMad]

Damn, that's shocking. I followed him on Twitter and remember all the stuff about Rover 800s.
(Erm, what's the trifle reference about?)

[mik]

(Erm, what's the trifle reference about?)

See Tim's post on page 150

[Carlos]

(Erm, what's the trifle reference about?)

See Tim's post on page 150

[Beany]

Given how tight nit the 'crap car' community is online, not a shock that Hubnut is aware of it and was at least on the periphery of it.



It's a public post but won't link properly, so:

Yesterday, Chris Pollitt was sentenced to 23 months in jail for almost killing his partner. This is someone I once considered a friend, though an incident just over a year ago gave us an insight into the real Pollitt and it was not good.

We then had to watch on while he played the mental health card, convincing many people to part with money in a Just Giving fundraiser (albeit he didn't start it) while making his partner look like the problem. She was not allowed to defend herself against the rogue rants that he posted online (and often deleted so he could claim it never happened later on).

She and we had to watch on while her reputation was effectively dragged through the mud, accused of not being supportive enough, of banishing him to the garage. Then he started complaining that he somehow needed more money. I believe he found ways to acquire it. Many people were suckered.
He was charged earlier this year, not that you would have known it from his social media pages where it was 'normal' progress. He was up to unsavoury things during the year too, sending inappropriate messages to many females online.

Which is why the sentencing yesterday came as such a relief. It brought to an end a painful year. We could see bad things coming but I don't think we ever imagined things would get as bad as they did. We tried to do what we could but Pollitt is (or rather was) very good at keeping The Police at bay. Saying what they wanted to hear to be on their way.

I hope beyond hope that his former partner can move on with her life. She deserves far better. There are charities to support people in such positions. It is not normal. It is not acceptable.

I hope also that it won't invalidate the very real issue of men's mental health. Plenty of people have very real struggles without feeling the need to lay a finger on another human. It is ok to not be ok. It is not ok to blame emotions for violence.

Added some carriage returns for readability but otherwise as posted.

[speedingfine]

Just read Hubnut's post elsewhere. What a prize cunt.

[Mito Man]

What a cunt, sounds like prison is ideal for him, with that fetish of his.
I only vaguely know him from that fundraiser which was going on, and the odd retweets about his mental health and him going offline. Didn't think about it much otherwise, and don't think much about metal health as an excuse for strangling someone else... Easy excuse to throw around for everything these days and no one can question it without coming across like a cunt so yeah, that's all I have to say about that.

[Zonda_]

Lucky he was caught before anything worse happened. These people are often brilliant manipulators, I have 2 guys on my caseload who are both in for intentional strangulation and if you didn’t know they come across as the nicest people. Oddly one of them claims to have no memory of the event either.