Nir Bitton speeding trial delayed for months by interpreter request despite him speaking fluent English

[uneasydaz]

EX-CELTIC ace Nir Bitton’s speeding trial was delayed for six months as he wanted an interpreter — despite speaking fluent English.

The Israel star, 31, had his lawyers postpone the case three times because a Hebrew translator failed to turn up after he did 95mph in a 50 zone.

But Bitton coped fine with telly interviews during his nine years with the Hoops.

It comes as court staff scramble to clear a mountain of backlogged cases after Covid.

A source said: “Bitton’s English is excellent.

“It’s surprising it would be felt he would need an interpreter to follow things.”

The midfielder, now at Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv, spoke to Celtic TV in May.

He revealed he had helped countryman Liel Abada “settle into the city, the culture, the football, the language”.

And he told how he had “two Scottish kids and another one coming” during his near-decade in Glasgow.

The Scottish Court and Tribunal Service said: “It is policy to facilitate accused persons with an interpreter in all cases if the court deems this necessary.”

Bitton jetted back for the Glasgow sheriff court hearing last week.

He admitted careless driving on the M80 near the city in his Audi SQ7.

Sheriff Michael Hanlon fined him £4,500 with nine points but spared him a ban.

Scottish Tory Shadow Justice Secretary Jamie Greene MSP said many would be “aghast” at the hold-up.

 

[mark hateley]

I can tell you from experience he didn't have any issues talking to me in English when I met him.

The Tim way I suppose, deny deflect.

 

[rossgers]

Sheriff Michael Hanlon fined him £4,500 with nine points but spared him a ban.

 

[Blueranger45]

Sheriff Michael Hanlon fined him £4,500 with nine points but spared him a ban.

did he give the judge a signed scum shirt as well? 95mph in a 50mph zone is probably losing your licence area for a "normal" person or certainly banned off the road for a bit

 

[AnglianBear]

They are going to need a bigger brush.

 

[Northampton Lodger]

They are experts at delaying prosecutions and then minimising the sentence. Must be part of the induction at Parkhead.

 

[HMS.Temple.Garden]

95 in a 50 zone!

 

[GR6Ger]

Shows you how flawed the justice system is. He won’t care about those points or the tiny fine.

 

[CAL]

Doing a post match interview and following court proceedings are quite different to be fair.

I don’t care for the guy for obvious reasons but it’s hardly his fault that the translator failed to show up either.

 

[Bluepixie]

Liewell pulling the strings no doubt. Sheriff Hanlon sounds like one of his many placemen.

 

[broono]

did he give the judge a signed scum shirt as well? 95mph in a 50mph zone is probably losing your licence area for a "normal" person or certainly banned off the road for a bit

I thought It was an instant ban if you travel 30mph over the speed limit.

That's what I was told by the officer who stopped me when I was done for speeding in 2008.

 

[tazzabear]

I can tell you from experience he didn't have any issues talking to me in English when I met him.

The Tim way I suppose, deny deflect.

Add “delay” these days.

 

[TCWNS1872]

The criminal justice system delivers for the public once again.

 

[tazzabear]

EX-CELTIC ace Nir Bitton’s speeding trial was delayed for six months as he wanted an interpreter — despite speaking fluent English.

The Israel star, 31, had his lawyers postpone the case three times because a Hebrew translator failed to turn up after he did 95mph in a 50 zone.

But Bitton coped fine with telly interviews during his nine years with the Hoops.

It comes as court staff scramble to clear a mountain of backlogged cases after Covid.

A source said: “Bitton’s English is excellent.

“It’s surprising it would be felt he would need an interpreter to follow things.”

The midfielder, now at Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv, spoke to Celtic TV in May.

He revealed he had helped countryman Liel Abada “settle into the city, the culture, the football, the language”.

And he told how he had “two Scottish kids and another one coming” during his near-decade in Glasgow.

The Scottish Court and Tribunal Service said: “It is policy to facilitate accused persons with an interpreter in all cases if the court deems this necessary.”

Bitton jetted back for the Glasgow sheriff court hearing last week.

He admitted careless driving on the M80 near the city in his Audi SQ7.

Sheriff Michael Hanlon fined him £4,500 with nine points but spared him a ban.

Scottish Tory Shadow Justice Secretary Jamie Greene MSP said many would be “aghast” at the hold-up.

Should have added the interpreter costs to the fine.
And the cost of the delays.

 

[scottishpoet]

Large fine but no ban because there is no point banning him as he no longer lives here.

 

[nybear]

EX-CELTIC ace Nir Bitton’s speeding trial was delayed for six months as he wanted an interpreter — despite speaking fluent English.

The Israel star, 31, had his lawyers postpone the case three times because a Hebrew translator failed to turn up after he did 95mph in a 50 zone.

But Bitton coped fine with telly interviews during his nine years with the Hoops.

It comes as court staff scramble to clear a mountain of backlogged cases after Covid.

A source said: “Bitton’s English is excellent.

“It’s surprising it would be felt he would need an interpreter to follow things.”

The midfielder, now at Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv, spoke to Celtic TV in May.

He revealed he had helped countryman Liel Abada “settle into the city, the culture, the football, the language”.

And he told how he had “two Scottish kids and another one coming” during his near-decade in Glasgow.

The Scottish Court and Tribunal Service said: “It is policy to facilitate accused persons with an interpreter in all cases if the court deems this necessary.”

Bitton jetted back for the Glasgow sheriff court hearing last week.

He admitted careless driving on the M80 near the city in his Audi SQ7.

Sheriff Michael Hanlon fined him £4,500 with nine points but spared him a ban.

Scottish Tory Shadow Justice Secretary Jamie Greene MSP said many would be “aghast” at the hold-up.

should have jailed him for wasting court time ontop of careless driving

 

[HamiltonBear]

They are experts at delaying prosecutions and then minimising the sentence. Must be part of the induction at Parkhead.

To be fair, the "system" is open to abuse from anyone. If you have a good enough lawyer these things become minor inconveniences.

 

[mdingwall]

 

[The Golden God]

Lawyers eh, not got a specific stereotype for a reason.

 

[Dbear 65]

Hebrew...a male teabag, should be plenty in the PF's office! ( stolen from my eight year old grandson)

 

[RoyalBlue]

Doing a post match interview and following court proceedings are quite different to be fair.

I don’t care for the guy for obvious reasons but it’s hardly his fault that the translator failed to show up either.

Translator Levi Caleb O’Shaughnessy apologised to Sheriff Murphy for his tardiness

 

[Blue Lew]

Should have told them that he was speeding away from those jolly japesters that wanted to hang him, his wife and their kids from a lamppost.

 

[LowryRfc]

Ffs, couldn't mark his neck with a blow torch.

 

[BobbyShearer55-65]

Surely its abundantly clear to everyone by now, that footballers are exempt from the same road traffic restrictions that the rest of us are subject to?

 

[Whitburnbear]

Poor bugger had a bigger sentence having to play in front of they dregs as a jew

 

[Northampton Lodger]

To be fair, the "system" is open to abuse from anyone. If you have a good enough lawyer these things become minor inconveniences.

They seem to have 100% record, surprised he didn’t get admonished like the guy that pled guilty to assault the other week.

 

[devilman]

It's amazing the deflection tactics picked up whilst playing for that rancid club. Just ripping the piss out of the more than compliant Scottish justice system.

 

[Battlefield Bear]

Liewell pulling the strings no doubt. Sheriff Hanlon sounds like one of his many placemen.

Oh for fuxsake, get a grip.

 

[BulletProofBear]

Oh for fuxsake, get a grip.

Peter Lawell - aka Peter Liewell - aka Kaiser Soze - Architect in Chief of the NWO.

 

[BulletProofBear]

They seem to have 100% record, surprised he didn’t get admonished like the guy that pled guilty to assault the other week.

Whatcha mean he got fined?! The poor guy found himself in a speeding car made by H@ns.

 

[Blue boy]

The area he was caught is notorious for traffic cops, turn off for bbriggs on the m80 turns into a 50 from a 70.
Been known to keep at 70 with my eyes peeled, but 95 is mental.

 

[Awritenobad]

Can’t wait to hear Kanye West’s take on this.

 

[Dumfriesbear]

Needing an interpreter my arse. I too can say he speaks sufficient English as he sat next to me on a LHR flight and spoke fine.

 

[venturablue]

Justice isn't about who's right or wrong, it's who's got the best lawyer.

 

[simply_the_best]

Oh for fuxsake, get a grip.

Beat me to it, you'd think the guy was like a Mexican cartel leader with the whole of Glasgow paid for and answerable to him.

 

[Vader]

£4.5k fine, he possibly paid more for his flights to get to the court appointment!

 

[longtimedead]

Are they waiting for him to pop his clogs too ?

 

[themoffster’s ghost]

If you can’t speak fluent English you shouldn’t be allowed to work in the country.
Footballers, businessmen, anyone in any walk of life.
My wife works for the NHS and the amount of resources the health services waste on translators for people that come to this country is sickening when you consider nurses are having to strike as they don’t get paid enough.
If you stop non-English speakers you solve the problem faced here with Biton and you save tons of money not least in the NHS, which is frankly all this country has left.

 

[Hurleyreyes]

because a Hebrew translator failed to turn up after he did 95mph in a 50 zone

To be fair, looks like the translator tried his best to get there on time.

 

[TheCanonburyCaniggia]

I didn’t even know he had left Celtic

 

[Tino_Col]

If you can’t speak fluent English you shouldn’t be allowed to work in the country.
Footballers, businessmen, anyone in any walk of life.
My wife works for the NHS and the amount of resources the health services waste on translators for people that come to this country is sickening when you consider nurses are having to strike as they don’t get paid enough.
If you stop non-English speakers you solve the problem faced here with Biton and you save tons of money not least in the NHS, which is frankly all this country has left.

So if you're not fluent to the extent you can follow legal proceedings in a court of law in a second language then you shouldn't be able to have any job, including footballer? Haha are you just and FF bot rather than a real person?

Half the cúnts who are Glaswegian can barely speak the language to any level that one would deem acceptable.

Your argument is also foolish as you can break the speed limit of a country without actually working in that country. Bloody foreigners.

 

[Mr. Blue]

The lady's front bottom spoke perfect English when I delivered a deliveroo order to him recently.

 

[Mount_Bear]

Doing a post match interview and following court proceedings are quite different to be fair.

I don’t care for the guy for obvious reasons but it’s hardly his fault that the translator failed to show up either.

Having met the guy I can tell you for a fact his English is better than half the folk on this forum.

 

[Mount_Bear]

If you can’t speak fluent English you shouldn’t be allowed to work in the country.
Footballers, businessmen, anyone in any walk of life.
My wife works for the NHS and the amount of resources the health services waste on translators for people that come to this country is sickening when you consider nurses are having to strike as they don’t get paid enough.
If you stop non-English speakers you solve the problem faced here with Biton and you save tons of money not least in the NHS, which is frankly all this country has left.

What a lot of utter, racist shite

 

[MilanBear]

Shows you how flawed the justice system is. He won’t care about those points or the tiny fine.

Should do what Finland apply. Fines are awarded on the basis of your income.

 

[SGerro8]

What a lot of utter, racist shite

How’s it racist?

He’s right, a fortune wasted on translators that could be spent on proper healthcare

 

[Big D]

Doing a post match interview and following court proceedings are quite different to be fair.

I don’t care for the guy for obvious reasons but it’s hardly his fault that the translator failed to show up either.

Even a native English speaker could have a problem following court proceedings, but surely that's why lawyers are there? I'm sure his brief would have been able to clear up anything that was unclear. It was a speeding offence after all, not exactly a complex case.

 

[Tom Forsyth's stud]

Is Hebrew not those things above your eyes if you come from Milngavie?

 

[OlegKuznetsov]

Dark Arts

It should be their motto

 

[Peter_OHanrahahanrahan]

If only Kristofer Ajer had got to the courthouse in time, he would have got away with it.