A pensioner was jailed for a second time yesterday after refusing to pay her council tax.
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Josephine Rooney was sent to prison two years ago after withholding payment because she believed the local authority had failed to prevent her once-elegant street from being overrun by drug dealers and prostitutes.
Hartington Street in Derby had become known to locals as Crack Alley and her constant lobbying of the council had proved fruitless, she said.
Derby Magistrates said they had no choice but to jail her after she refused to pay, even though she has the money to settle her arrears.
Before the hearing, Miss Rooney said she had no qualms about prison. "I will do it again and and again.
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Protocol No. 4 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, securing certain rights and freedoms other than those already included in the Convention and in the first Protocol thereto
as amended by Protocol No. 11
Strasbourg, 16.IX.1963
Headings of articles added and text amended according to the provisions of Protocol No. 11 (ETS No. 155) as from its entry into force on 1 November 1998.
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Explanatory Report
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The governments signatory hereto, being members of the Council of Europe,
Being resolved to take steps to ensure the collective enforcement of certain rights and freedoms other than those already included in Section 1 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms signed at Rome on 4th November 1950 (hereinafter referred to as the "Convention") and in Articles 1 to 3 of the First Protocol to the Convention, signed at Paris on 20th March 1952,
Have agreed as follows:
Article 1 – Prohibition of imprisonment for debt
No one shall be deprived of his liberty merely on the ground of inability to fulfil a contractual obligation.
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