Choosing Your Battles...

Yesterday, a 'Daily Mail' story was tweeted out:

 

And we were off to the races! It went round the world at the speed of...well, electrons. But people should have heeded the words of Twitter, which before you retweet something in a news story or article, asks you if you want to read it first. 

Because he wasn't jailed for that. He was suspended for it (rightly or wrongly), and it was how he took that suspension and what he then did - refusing to stay away from school premises - that got him arrested and jailed. As it would have done anyone.

Frankly, he sounds more than a little unhinged. Not the free speech martyr I want to get behind. 

What's That Definition Of Madness Again..?

Isn't it 'doing the same thing over and over again yet expecting a different result'?

Police officers have said they “dread” working at Notting Hill Carnival amid calls for it to be moved to Hyde Park and become a ticketed event. Seven people were stabbed at the event on Monday evening, in what organisers called “horrifying behaviour”.

And what everyone else calls 'what other sort of behaviour did you expect?'...

“Every Tuesday after the August bank holiday, I have the same conversations about Notting Hill Carnival,” Ken Marsh, chairman of the Met Police Federation which represents rank and file officers, told The Times.

“I’ve done it year after year after year after year. It’s beyond absurd what’s going on.”

Correct! So what do you plan to do? 

Mr Marsh, along with many other police officers, believes that the event should be moved to a private open space, which would mean the police are no longer responsible for its security.

Gosh! I wish if I found part of my job really challenging, I could demand to have some other poor sod do it instead....  

Yeah, She's Barking, All Right...

A Barking woman who slashed another woman with a knife outside a pre-school in Essex will be sentenced next month.

Solie Essla, 19, of Cavendish Gardens, Barking...

That's a good old Barking name, eh..? 

...appeared at Ipswich Crown Court on Thursday (August 25). She denied wounding a woman with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, but admitted a less serious offence of unlawfully wounding her.

There's the CPS again, taking the path of least resistance! Still, maybe it was a one-off inci...

She also pleaded guilty to having a knife in Forest Road, Colchester, and assaulting another woman by beating.

Oh. 

Steven Dyble for Essla, who has no previous convictions, described his client as “vulnerable”.

Funny, that sounds a lot more like the description that should be applied to the victims to me... 

Recorder Sarah Przybylska agreed to adjourn sentence on Essla until September 16 for a pre-sentence report and remanded her in custody.

*sighs* 

You Thought The Wheels Of Justice Ground Slow?

Well, try the wheels of internal investigation:

Ruby Begum, 27, was hailed an inspirational role model after footage showing her bravely confronting anti-lockdown protesters while wearing a hijab went viral two years ago.

But in the months before joining the Metropolitan Police in 2016, she used Twitter to insult Jews and mock the 9/11 attacks.

And the 'Mail' pointed this out a year ago. A complete failure of any sort of due diligence, so the Met acted swiftly. And .... wait. 

After being alerted by this newspaper, the Met referred the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct and Miss Begum was placed on ‘restricted duties’.

Following an investigation, the Met said yesterday that she had ‘a case to answer for gross misconduct’. She now faces a hearing ‘on a date to be determined’.

‘On 9 August 2022, she was suspended from duty.’

*blinks* 

Well, You Got Something Right, Shaima...

...it was the right thing to do!

Welcoming the probe when it was announced in April, she told The Guardian: ‘The investigation is the right thing to do. I know quite a few Jewish students feel alienated.

‘This is the first step to start bridging the gap and reaching out to Jewish students and ensuring that they feel like they have a place in NUS, so I do welcome it.’

I look forward to you resigning, and not fighting this suspension, then.  

"Picture Monkey! Get Me A Horsefly Image For This News Story!"

"Sure boss! *How hard could this be?* That'll do!"

H/T: IanJ via email

Is One Of The First Signs Inability To Spell?

Because if so...

Sunday Funnies...

It's a dirty worthwhile job, so someone's got to do it...

'Challenge Accepted' Says The Jury...

Opening the case on Monday, prosecutor Gabrielle McAvock told the jury: “It is a bare denial from the defendant about these allegations. The burden of proof is on the prosecution. The standard of proof is that you must be sure of the defendant’s guilt.”

And Reader, they were! Hardly surprising, mind you: 

Miranda will be sentenced in October for a separate matter of distributing a class A video three times and downloading two extreme pornographic images showing people having sex with animals.

That distribution offence was committed in July 2021 only weeks after an Oxford judge imposed a community order after Miranda was found guilty of groping a 16-year-old girl while he gave a lift to her and her friends after picking them up on the Cowley Road.

A serial sex maniac.  

Imposing that order, Judge Michael Gledhill QC said he would have been ‘perfectly justified’ in sending Miranda to prison – were it not for the fact he had to follow the Sentencing Council’s guidelines.

“You’re a sex pest,” the judge said. “That is what you were doing that night, sexually attracted to these young girls.”

So this time he'll get the book thrown at him, right? 

Remanding him into custody to be sentenced on October 3, Judge Nigel Daly said: “I am concerned about this man. I want reports; I want reports [from the probation service] to consider dangerousness.”

If found to be a ‘dangerous offender’, Miranda faces an extended custodial sentence with a longer period when he will be on licence and supervised by specialist probation officers.

What more 'reports' do you need? 

And Why Are They So Brazen, Johanna..?

PC Johanna Hernandez Garcia said: “The suspects brazenly robbed the victim in broad daylight and in front of a bus full of people.

“We know the impact robbery has on victims and are focussed on responding effectively to such crimes and investigating them fully. Since the incident took place we have been carrying out various inquiries and are now appealing for the assistance of the public.”

Could it be that they are only too aware of the fact that there's no law and order any more? 

That the police are terrified of this section of London's 'community' and far too concerned with easy non-crime to worry about such trifling matters as street robbery? After all, if they act on this sort of thing, their supplies might dry up and that will never do!