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Dougie 4's avatar

Never plead guilty.

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Neil Pryke's avatar

Grim reading...

A weak government desperately writing and re-writing the rules as the situations develop...

Prosecutions which imply intent on the part of those arrested...which would be defamation

if made by those not employed as law enforcement personnel...

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K Wu's avatar

The key to understanding this for me is the documentary about the police trying to crack down on the Adam gang. Not sure now which channel this was on. The "prosecutor" was like a harlot, literally dressed like a prostitute as if there was no dress code in place. As a woman I was ashamed to see that. No respect for the detectives, condescending, despicably dismissive for how the detectives worked on the case. They had arrested ALL members of the gang and she forced them to release the gang!

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Alice England's avatar

Thank you for an excellent article.

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Peter J Reed's avatar

Very comprehensive. Unsurprising food for thought about how we might begin to combat this! I have spent years, and risked my own life on assignments to combat radical violent extremism in the most hostile of operating environments. This is even more challenging and it’s here at home in plain sight!

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Jillian Stirling's avatar

This is completely appalling. So inconsistent. So what’s happening to real crime? Have the police stopped investigating this.? It sure looks like it. Crime is only investigated in fiction.

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John Richard Barnes's avatar

It would help if you published the work addresses of the biased, inefficient, unelected, unaccountable judiciary so that we the public who pay their fat salaries can express our disgust at their behaviour directly rather than posting messages on websites etc.

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Jillian Stirling's avatar

How is all this going to promote social cohesion? Imprisoning people for such trivia offences just makes for more resentment and division.

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Susan Sullivan's avatar

Thank you for this! What is happening in this country is a humanitarian catastrophe. We don’t recognise it. The man leading the Labour Party, is a dictator, pure and simple. The fear amongst us is palpable. There must be a revolution in the next 12 months, people just can’t stand what is happening. The elites that seem to love illegal migrants but don’t live anywhere near them. Today we found out that they get priority health care and immediate access to a GP. Us common citizens can never get a GP appointment if we are ill. Yet we pay our taxes to access our medical network. People have reached their wits end!!!!

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GO's avatar

UK government is bought and paid for by Arab oil money.... Brits must push back harshly

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Paul's avatar

Random thought here - but making support of Palestine action has now put another set of “political prisoners” into the judicial system that will dilute the concerns for the “Southport riot” prisoners - especially amongst the “herbivore” left-wingers who now have their own set of upper middle class martyrs to lionise.

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Paul's avatar

Especially since the overlap of support and sympathy for the two groups is non-existent outside of principles free speech advocates.

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Ash 1952's avatar

K2T hope those who supported labour are regretting it .

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Andrew's avatar

When a legal system and judiciary fails to protect its society and people, is this not a recipe for civil unrest and worse?

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