Somehow, the grooming gangs of Rotherham cause more visceral disgust and outcry than exploitation of these equally vulnerable victims procured for the lusts of the wealthy.
Tens of 17 year olds being well paid to give blowjobs is indeed different from thousands, tens of thousands, of our own raped for decades.
Odd that, eh?
A French court has found a former senator guilty of drugging a female lawmaker with ecstasy with intent to sexually assault her.
OK, so one man in the flat, one lady comes to visit, he drugs her in the champagne.
So far all agreed. And also I think we all know what we expect it was about.
But she felt ill, left, went to hospital, he never did make a move on her. Again, I think we can guess at intent but a guess does seem a bit harsh to allow a sentence.
Dunno, maybe that’s just me…..
The killing was captured on a surveillance video which shows Zarutska, wearing the uniform of the pizza shop she worked at, staring at her phone when Brown appears to stab her from behind. The gruesome footage quickly went viral. Conservative circles took up Zarutska’s murder as an example of what they consider to be rampant violence in US cities. Leading Maga figures used nakedly racist, dehumanizing language to describe Brown.
It’s the dehumanising language which is the crime, obviously.
Abject tossers, eh?
At least 30 dangerous mental health patients secretly freed from high security hospitals have gone on to kill in recent years, The Telegraph can disclose.
Around 250 violent offenders are detained in institutions such as Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth each year after courts decide they are too mentally ill to go to prison
Many, like the Nottingham killer, Valdo Calocane, are told their conditions are so acute they are unlikely to ever be freed.
But figures obtained by the Telegraph reveal that an astonishing 55 percent of those sent to secure hospitals are quietly freed within five years, almost 90 per cent within ten years and 99 percent within 20-years.
It’s not “too ill to go to prison”. It’s “too ill to be responsible for their actions”.
And if they are cured of their illness then they should be released, of course. Because they were not responsible when they acted as they did so they should not be punished.
Now, there’s an awful lot that can slip through there – claiming mental illness when it’s mere evil and so on. But the UK rules on being able to claim that illness are, as far as I know, pretty strict. That clearly mad nutter of a Welsh choirboy hasn’t been able to claim it after all.
It’s also true that the white coats might claim a cure when it hasn;t happened, or people stop taking their drugs and so on. But the base idea, that nutters aren’t responsbile so once they’re not nutters they walk is a cornerstone of the base legal system.
So, err, just one of those difficult ones, right?
The media storm that resulted forced a reckoning on an issue that has come to haunt Britain, not least because of the apparent over-representation of men of Asian heritage in the gangs that plagued towns such as Oldham.
Sheesh.
In 2011, when the NSU outed itself in a video in which it claimed responsibility for the murders and several nailbomb attacks, it also exposed profound structural failures in the German state’s approach to rightwing terrorism.
Subsequent inquiries revealed that security agencies had informants in close proximity to the perpetrators, overlooked relevant intelligence, and in some cases destroyed files after the group was uncovered. As a result, the NSU case has come to be understood not only as a sequence of racist murders but as an indictment of the state’s inability – or unwillingness – to adequately recognise and confront far-right violence.
Now, in ongoing proceedings surrounding the NSU, Beate Zschäpe – sentenced to life in 2018 for her role within the NSU core cell responsible for 10 murders – recently appeared in court as a witness in a related trial. But this time, Zschäpe took on a markedly different tone than she had before – one of remorse, or at least something that resembled it. She spoke of shame, of reconsideration, of recognition of her own guilt, which she claims only started during her own trial, ending in 2018.
And the varied leftie murderers of slightly earlier times. Baader Meinhof and so on. They’ve all fessed up and begged have they? Or is that different because they were against The Man?
The family of Virginia Giuffre have expressed their “deep disappointment” that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will not face a criminal investigation in the UK over allegations against him.
It was alleged that Mountbatten-Windsor had sex in London with a teenager who was trafficked, and then put pressure on his police protection officer to dig up dirt on her.
Re sex in London, if it actually happened. She was over the local age of consent. Further, if it happened, it wsa at a time when “trafficked” required that the sexer knew that the sexee was trafficked.
Purely as a personal opinion these relatives have notde that the settlement already made seems to have disappeared into the aether. Therefore there’s a hope for another bite at the cherry. Not that I have any facts about this, just an opinion.
Didn’t the ban guns? After the Tasmania shootings?
The alleged gunmen behind the Bondi beach attack are a father-son duo suspected of using legally obtained firearms to commit the massacre, according to police.
Naveed Akram, 24, was arrested at the scene and taken to a Sydney hospital with critical injuries. His 50-year-old father, who the Sydney Morning Herald first reported to be Sajid Akram, was shot dead by police.
The pair allegedly killed 15 people, with dozens more injured in the shootings which took place on Sunday, during a gathering to celebrate the first night of Hanukah.
The son was known to New South Wales police and security agencies, while his father had a firearms licence with six weapons registered to him. All six firearms have been recovered, police said.
He also bought two mattresses for about $638,000 and spent another $295,000 on luxury bedding and linens.
I mean, Hollywood film finance ends in fraud is hardly new. But that’s some really, really, impressive spending.
ICE issues deportation order for Belarusian woman extradited by FBI
An ongoing FBI investigation into a Belarusian woman accused of smuggling US aviation parts and electronics to Russia is teetering on the brink of collapse after being caught in what one judge called a “Kafkaesque” case brought on by the Trump administration’s attempts to deport her before she faces trial.
Federal prosecutors had worked for over a year to secure the extradition of Yana Leonova, who faces multiple charges including fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering. But their efforts unraveled when immigration officials abruptly issued an order to detain and deport her soon after she was flown into the US last month, a move that plunged the case into legal chaos.
“Indeed, it is both preposterous and offensive for the government to bring someone into the United States against their will and then turn around and seek ICE detention because that person is here ‘illegally,’” magistrate judge Zia M Faruqui said in a written order.
Not even the Trumpian state is efficient…..
Under new laws, “bad character” evidence related to a victim’s past sexual history or abuse will no longer be allowed, unless lawyers have evidence to suggest a complainant has previously lied. Previous compensation claims for experiences of crime by victims will be banned under similar conditions.
The changes will make it easier for prosecuting barristers to introduce “bad character” evidence about defendants in domestic abuse cases. New legislation, expected to be put before parliament next year, will mean a domestic abuse offence of any type – even if against a different victim – will be admissible in court.
Very unbalanced in fact. Past actions cannot be considered, past actions can be considered.
Hmm.
It was the utopian housing dream, a community project designed to support its residents from cradle to grave – 400 redbrick homes built around a village hall, leisure centre and playing fields, all of it owned and managed by the people who lived there.
The Eldonian village in Liverpool was heralded at the time of its completion by the then Prince Charles as a “leading example of a successful, community-led, bottom-up approach to neighbourhood regeneration”.
Built amid the decline of 1980s Liverpool, the Eldonian lies close to the city’s once-thriving dockyards. Residents facing dispersal through slum-clearance programmes chose instead to stay together and rebuild their homes. They moved from cramped tenement flats to their own houses with gardens. To many, it was the fulfilment of a dream.
But just over a decade ago, with Liverpool’s booming dockside real estate suddenly in demand, the facilities once owned by the residents’ community trust were closed off. Within months football pitches were ripped up and blighted by fly-tipping, the school demolished and the village hall shuttered.
Oh. Right. So here are the kids of the original dreamer:
From around 2016, leases and land had begun to be transferred into private hands. Properties including the shops, nursery, leisure centre, gym, bowling green and sports pitches were quietly offloaded to offshore firms.
Documents reveal a paper trail tracing these sales to entities and directors unknown to the community. Worse still, some seemed to have been sold off at a fraction of their value. In several cases, apparently valuable assets had changed hands for as little as £1.
“It all happened so quietly. It was gradual,” said Maureen Price, a long-term resident of the Eldonian village. “Every time we asked who was responsible, no one answered. We wanted to know who approved those sales, why was nobody told and what happened to the income from our amenities?”
Tony McGann senior, the “slumbuster” and Eldonian pioneer had died in in 2022, aged 85. He received the freedom of Liverpool in 2017 and the flag on the town hall flew at half-mast after his death.
But upon his death, the next generation of his family remained involved in the Eldonian. McGann’s daughters had become entrenched as directors of Eldonian Leisure and took day-to-day management roles in the village hall. One daughter, Marie McGann, claims to have personally lent Eldonian Leisure £80,000 in 2017 – a loan currently under investigation by the Charity Commission.
And we can guess the rest of what is being implied by The Guardian. No, we’ll not say what did happen – and we’ll not comment upon it either. But we’re being invited to think along a certain line shall we say:
It was against this backdrop that McGann went into court, with the charity represented by a pro bono legal team.
Central to his winding-up claim was a document that appeared to show that £14,400 in legal fees had been paid to the law firm Mishcon de Reya. Because the trust couldn’t afford the bill, it should be wound up, McGann’s claim said.
But an invoice submitted to the court contained visible alterations, including a substituted client name and a mismatched reference. The law firm quickly disowned it, and in a letter to the Charity Commission, confirmed that only one genuine invoice had ever been issued, and that it was addressed not to the Eldonian Community Trust but to “Eldonian Community Based Housing Association & others”.
Very Trotskyist in fact. All the decisions are taken by the subcommittee of the committee of nomainating things to hte management board. The subcommittee meeting at midnight in hte basement of the twon hall behind the door marked “Leopard will eat your face if you enter”.
At a meeting in 2021 of the Eldonian Community Based Housing Association in the village hall, residents arrived to be greeted by mixed martial arts fighters stationed on the doors.
Noo, this isn’t anything to do with Militant – it’s just the tactics which are reminiscient.
Oh, and soon coming to Your Party as they’ve adopted the SWP style of management.
You know, given that the current ruling class in Britain is so keen on it all and that:
A court in Bangladesh has sentenced the British MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in jail after a judge ruled she was complicit in corrupt land deals with her aunt, the country’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
We sending her off to serve her sentence then? If not, why not?
Up to a million women worldwide are facing sexual violence and forced labour in prisons, where they are overlooked and forgotten, in what is being called a growing global crisis.
The number of incarcerated women is rising much faster than men and is expected to surpass one million on current trends. While on average women account for between 2% and 9% of national prison populations, since 2000 the number imprisoned has grown by 57%, compared with a 22% increase in the men’s prison population.
“We are facing a global crisis,” said Olivia Rope, executive director at Penal Reform International. “If you look at the rate of growth compared to men in prison, it is really alarming. Women are often an afterthought, and they face very harsh, difficult conditions where their needs are unmet in most cases.”
In fact, equity demands equal outcomes according to the modern interpretation. So, we have too few women in prison…..
Aided by allies in Congress and the conservative press, Trump’s team has also waged a relentless campaign against perceived media bias in the reporting of January 6.
The media has been hugely biased in its reporting. As have the courts. So, what is to be done about that?
Williamson is a longtime Democratic power player in Sacramento. She was a cabinet secretary for former governor Jerry Brown before opening her own political affairs firm. She was also Becerra’s campaign manager when he ran for attorney general in 2018, and she later rejoined state government as Newsom’s chief of staff.
Roughly $225,000 in funds were diverted from Becerra’s political campaign coffers to “an associate’s personal use”, between February 2022 and 2024 – a time that overlapped when Williamson was serving as Newsom’s chief of staff, according to the indictment, which was unsealed upon her arrest.
California politics has long been notably vile and corrupt. But they normally steal from the taxppayer not each other….
Damning new emails that suggest Donald Trump knew about the conduct of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released Wednesday, including one in which Epstein said “of course [Trump] knew about the girls” procured for his sex-trafficking ring, and another that said Trump “spent hours” with one victim at Epstein’s house.
Top of front page in The G. More space – or better space perhaps – than they’ve given to the hundreds of grooming gangs here in Blighty, eh?
Also, we know Trump knew about the girls. That’s why Epstein was asked not to be at Mar a Largo, why Trump said “apparently he likes them young”.
But, you know, TDS etc….this is actually first 7 stories on the front page.
A former Metropolitan police officer allegedly used sex workers while on duty in the midst of a major investigation into behavioural standards, the Guardian can reveal.
Britain’s largest police force has been described as “institutionally misogynistic” after widespread claims that a “toxic” sexist culture has been allowed to thrive for decades.
Doing it on duty isn’t right. Nope.
Mumping it – gimmie a freebie or I’ll arrest you – isn’t right either.
But shagging birds who are advertisig themselves to be shagged seems a great deal less bad than shagging underaged birds being vilely raped. It’s also legal, as it happens.
But my best guess here is that the complaints aren’t, in fact, about mumping or on duty but about the having sex with adult women who agree to having sex.
The repatriation comes after Indonesia’s senior law and human rights minister, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, signed a deal with British foreign minister Yvette Cooper last month for the transfer of Sandiford and Shahabadi.
Both prisoners are suffering from severe health problems.
Yusril said last month that Sandiford was “seriously ill”,
Umm:
Two British drug convicts including death row prisoner Lindsay Sandiford
Not executing someone because they’re ill seems, umm, odd. But there’s something at the back of the head telling me that it happens – even to the point of treatment to make the condemned well again so they can be hanged. Not sure where that comes from at all but it is there, rolling around in the wide open spaces of my mind.
A fugitive child sex offender spent 90 minutes asking prison staff who had mistakenly released him from HMP Chelmsford where he should go before they sent him to a train station, a witness said.
Part of the plot will be some well fit lawyer bird (say, that blondie who keeps insiting she be called Dr. It’s her mind that’s wrong, not physique) defending him on charges of having absconded and thus having his sentence increased for having been on the run etc. That defence will be just a retailing of what actually happened when he was released.
Actually, the film opens at his trial for having absconded with her questioning screws etc, their answers appearing as flashbacks. “Yes, we told ‘im to git”. “And he asked you why he was being released?” and so on….
Now, where we take it from there is the question. We’ve a good 20 minutes of comedy there. So, does it become realist? He goes on to thieve and steal and aggress his way acros the country? Or off into phantasy where the brown illegal immigrant changes a car tyre so that the cancer stricken kid can get to cancer treatment as choirs of angels sing and bystanders clap?
