1. The judge can indeed impose the terrorist connection, whether it is so charged or not, per s.69 Sentencing Act 2020.
2. Crown Court sentences don't set precedents. This is trite - and as an MP, you really ought to know this.
3. The sentences are neither disproportionate, nor wrong. There was serious damage (£1.2m) to property, and a police officer's spine was fractured with a sledgehammer.
What's "wrong" here is that MPs are outraged that people have been appropriately sentenced for such crimes that include GBH by fracturing a police officer's spine with a sledgehammer.
We should not have MPs who think this way.
⚠️NOTTINGHAM ATTACK
A young woman was reportedly r-ped in the Adams Walk area of Nottingham city centre at 2:46am this morning [Sat 13th June].
Police cordoned off part of Lace Market Square and urge info - but haven't released any suspect description.
Important win for women and sex-based rights:
Employment Tribunal just ruled in LS v NHS England: Allowing trans women (biological males) into female-only facilities = indirect sex discrimination + harassment against gender-critical women.
No legal right under the Equality Act for 'trans' people to access opposite-sex spaces.
Single-sex spaces are lawful and must be protected. This precedent has now been confirmed multiple times - time for every organisation (NHS, schools, prisons, sports) to update policies and stop the confusion. #SingleSexSpaces #Safeguarding
🚨 SHAME!! Dutch police admitted they hid the identity of the Iraqi man who killed 14-year-old Tamar Boes because they didn't want it to help Geert Wilders politically.
A child is dead. A family suffered for 6 years. And the government's first instinct was to protect the narrative
"You stole my girlhood. You killed the woman I was supposed to become... You committed an act of violence that I have to wear on my skin for the rest of my life."
An Open Letter to the Surgeon Who Removed My Breasts | @burnyourbinder@genspect
https://t.co/P6XpI4BwnW
The Muslim majority council of the town of Harrow in the UK has begun hiring Muslim morality police they call “civil enforcement officers” to accost, fine, and harass native British people.
“We’re going to make sure you can’t work any more and earn no money.”
I’ve seen many Scottish Nationalists question why people in London are making decisions for us.
I’ve yet to see one of them question why unqualified Tamil transvestites, here on student visas will be making legislation for us.
This Green councillor has, rightly, been told to educate herself on the law.
After comparing the belief that there are only two sexes to Holocaust denial, she’s had to undertake training on the Equality Act and the councillors’ code of conduct.
Her comments were made in support of the cancellation of a public talk at Stroud Brewery by journalists Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel, authors of Pornocracy, a book examining the influence of pornography on society.
The event was cancelled following objections linked to the authors’ gender-critical views.
I’ve learned, first-hand, that many of those who oppose gender-critical beliefs are unable or unwilling to engage with the arguments themselves. Instead, they often resort to emotional appeals, personal smears and wildly disproportionate comparisons.
Comparing people who hold legally protected beliefs to Holocaust deniers is a good example.
Whatever your views on sex and gender, those things are not remotely equivalent.
Good to see Stroud District Council taking seriously the fact that gender-critical beliefs are protected in law and that elected representatives should understand that.
Link to read in comments 👇
@JoshFG You utterly disingenuous twerp. How dare you pretend to support women after boasting you signed a motion that dismisses out rights and protections.
Turns out there is a bit of legal precedent for sexual assault under the guise of a "wrestling move," but it certainly didn't set a precedent that being assaulted is just an expected byproduct of the sport.
In 2010, high school wrestler Preston Hill was charged with sexual battery after executing a move coined a "butt drag" against another boy on the mat when he allegedly rammed his fingers into his teammate's rectum during practice.
The charge was ultimately dropped as a result of mediation between the two teens.
Hill was expelled from school, as officials agreed that he had, in fact, committed sexual assault.
Yet in Washington, boys who lie about their sex to sneak into girls' wrestling matches to wrestle nonconsenting girls and stick their fingers into girls' vaginas are protected.
https://t.co/Ry4rjHRZGM
🚨 CORRUPT JUDGE.
This is Lady Maggie Scott — a senior Scottish judge.
She allowed convicted child rapist (below) Daniel Cieslak to walk free with an absolute discharge after he raped a 12-year-old girl.
Instead of a conviction for rape, she said the child “looked over 16” and let him off completely — no jail, no sex offenders register.
In another case, she praised Algerian rapist Hamadache Hamza for “overcoming his difficult background” and setting up a hairdressing business, after he brutally raped a woman leaving her with internal injuries.
These are the people deciding justice in Britain.
No wonder victims lose all faith. No wonder predators laugh at the system.
Name them. Shame them. SACK THEM.
Protect our children.