Either Ong is not the best source for information on British legal protocols, or England is an oppressive fascist regime.

Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
Arrested and charged are not the same thing in the UK. To be arrested is to be apprehended for questioning, to be charged is to be formally accused of the crime. With this in mind, you should now see a distinction between the two, and understand why people are arrested on suspicion.
Here in America, we have something called freedom. Police can question people, even aggressively. But no one is forced to answer. If the police say "Come down to the station and answer some questions". You are totally within your rights to say "Fuck off". There's no such thing as "apprehended for questioning"

Not quite. There has to be evidence, I mean the police have to believe there's a reasonable chance of a successful prosecution in order to waster their resources arresting and questioning people. There has to be reasonable grounds to make an arrest. A mere accusation is not enough, although it might be enough to get a warrant for them to investigate, ie tap phone wires etc.
So "probable cause" is not a thing in the UK??

I'm inclined to agree with you on this point. The ambulance people were keen to point out that there were also things said, and these comments to my knowledge have not been published. Perhaps she made a threat.
I doubt it. It seems that the note was the only newsworthy communication. If she did something else that led to her arrest, then the author of the story is a fucking retard.

But still, I don't have any sympathy for her. You're going to get yourself arrested if you tell a copper to fuck off when he is trying to arrest someone else, why is gobbing off at a paramedic any different?
I'm sorry you live in this totalitarian dictatorship. Here in the free world, you can tell a cop to fuck off. I've done it, though not in those exact words. I tried that synthetic marijuana for a couple weeks after my regular dealer died. I was buying it one night and a cop was talking to the convenience store clerk. He stopped talking as I was buying the shit and he said "You aren't nervous buying that in front of me?" I replied "Should I Be? Is it illegal?. He said "no", so I just shrugged and said "Then leave me alone"

That really ticked me off. I wanted to rant at the guy and explain that the alternative was that I go out onto 'his' streets and commit a crime buying drugs. is that really what he wants me to do????

This event is something that outrages the public, and not just your professional victims, but normal people who think "what if those paramedics were attending to my mother?". You'd want action to be taken.
Causing outrage is not a crime. So what if it was your mother. This woman didn't obstruct anything. She didn't interfere with paramedics doing their jobs.

Bitch will only get a fine. Rightly so.
This offends sensibility.