Nick Hogan - target reached!!!
Friday, March 5, 2010 I am delighted to report that our combined efforts to raise £8,669 to release former landlord Nick Hogan from jail have succeeded. And it took less than seven days. Old Holborn has an update HERE.
Please note: the nature of PayPal is such that it will take a few working days to access the money - and as I reported a couple of days ago, the authorities want the money in cash before they will release Nick.
Everything has gone very smoothly. Anna Raccoon, who wrote the post that kick started the campaign last Saturday, has spoken every day to Nick's wife Denise. Nick too has been kept informed and all is well. We look forward to seeing him when he is released next week.
Congratulations to Anna Raccoon and Old Holborn for a fantastic effort, and thanks to everyone who made a donation or publicised the campaign on their blog or website.
More to follow next week when Nick is released from jail. The process is well under way. Please be patient - and please leave everything to OH and Anna Raccoon.
PS. As Anna says elsewhere, thanks too to Guido Fawkes for help with the final push.
Reader Comments (110)
Thank to Simon Clark and talking liberty to have point out 2 responasble blogger Who have been able to achive their aims in 4 days....
What do have to "give back to Cesar what's belong to Cesar"...
Thank again to old Holborn and Anna Raccoon, I lead my hate onto their feet..
They have done what NO ONE HAVE ACHIVE BEFORE...
So Please By respect for those 2 personne blogger at least for once BEHAVE with respect people as Colin Grainger said with commun sense.... and in RESPECT FOR NICK & DENISE and their family
Thank you Simon clark too and all his team
Woow! I am delighted that it seems that even in UK still exists something called "common sence". I am missing it in this so called modern society so much!
Great hapiness!!! It is really good news. Thanks and keep going. living, laughting..and even smoking, if you like. I quit smoking a year ago, but i will defend a right to smoke....it is natural, it is liberty, in my opinion.
Archie, I agree totally with everything you've said.. As a non-smoker I've been derided for my opinion, which is that Nick made a choice to go to jail by non-payment of fine. And that the Law doesn't really care where the money comes from that pays for the fine. I hope Nick doesn't take the law into his own hands again.
Although I think it's admirable smokers got together to get him out, I think he acted from a point of self-promotion and self-interest. He made a choice to get locked up.
Baz - as I underatand it, Nick would have paid his fine but because the smoking ban finsished off his pub and left him bankrupt, he was unable to pay it. He went to court to negotiate a means to pay because he couldn't aford the £500 every month, and he was just locked up. He did not expect and did not want to go to prison.
You may not agree with his stance on smoking that got him into trouble but surely you don't think it right that our prisons should fill up with debtors?
What is the latest on Nicks release, is he out yet?
Pat, Firstly I've been in that pub!! so I know that the smoking ban wasn't the ONLY thing that finished it off.. I've already listed elsewhere all the other factors that effect pub closures. If Nick was so close to the sail, then surely, any responsible publican would have made sure he stayed within the law in the first place.. Are you now saying that he didn't know people where smoking in his pub? are you saying he was innocent, and that he "tried" to stay in the law, but there was some regular who ruined it for him?
Baz:
I was in Nicks pub on 1st July 2007 and also a month later and on both ocassions it was packed with happy smokers and non-smokers enjoying themselves.
This ban has killed the pub trade.
"packed with happy smokers and non-smokers ...."
Sorry, but we don't do 'Happy' any more.
The latest research has shown that Happiness is bad for you, and deprives the NHS of the flourishing Customer Base it needs.
This is why (or so I've heard) Primary School children are NOW being taught to sing:
"HEALTHY Birthday to you,
HEALTHY Birthday to you,
HEALTHY Birthday, Dear Deb-or-ah............"
Etc
AnnaR has posted on OH's blog that Nick's now released.
A supporter of Nick.. Do you seriously believe that the smoking ban is the sole reason for the decline in the pub industry!? What about all the non-smokers that drink in pubs.. the 75% of the population infact.. or do you believe that proportionally more smokers inhabited pubs than non-smokers.. (I'd like to see some stats on that)