Judge Johnson had proved his fascist credentials through rulings much earlier in the Filton trial than his vicious sentencing. Indeed, he had arguably already shown them when he released Tommy Robinson from a prison sentence, or when as a barrister he had chosen to work for the intelligence services and Ministry of Defence.
But in his incredibly vicious sentencing, Johnson did something quite extraordinary. It was not just that he added a “terrorist connection” to the sentencing – a possibility deliberately kept secret from the jury. But in sentencing he recounted the prosecution version of events in its entirety to justify his sentences, including explicitly setting out all the details of alleged violent disorder of which the defendants had been acquitted.
Here’s injustice Jeremy Johnson handing down the sentences at today’s disgusting stitched up Palestine Action trial.
Any faith I ever had in the fairness of the British justice system is completely is dead. pic.twitter.com/3c86cjplOz
— Wokerati Marty (@WokeratiMarty) June 12, 2026
In short Johnson used the “terrorist connection” to ignore the ruling of the jury and sentence them as though they had in fact been found guilty of all the things that Johnson had systematically rigged the trial to try to get them found guilty of – and failed.
The “terrorist connection” legislation is merely a part of an enormous slough of extreme authoritarian UK legislation passed in recent years – including the Online Safety Act, the National Security Act and many others. It is bad enough in itself, as it defines as terrorism any illegal activity intended to “influence the government” – which makes all civil disobedience terrorism. But even within these broad powers, Johnson appears to have gone extraordinarily far in pursuit of his fascist agenda.
We should remember that three of the four defendants were convicted of nothing except for criminal damage. They were found not guilty of aggravated burglary and of violent disorder. For a first offence of criminal damage, an absolute maximum of about three years imprisonment might be given in the most extreme circumstances. That would result in spending one year and two months in jail before release on parole – less time than the activists have already spent in prison on remand.
But the six-year sentences given by Johnson (and by the look of him that was the only sexual excitement he has ever experienced) – having a terrorist connection – are not eligible for parole. The activists will serve the full six years in jail: that is five times the length of sentence that might normally be expected in this case.
And all to ensure that there is no interruption to Israel’s ability to commit Genocide or Starmer’s complicity in it.
We should also take head-on the question of Sam Corner and the very slightly injured policewoman. Yet again the internet is full of Zionist propaganda saying that she had “her back broken” or “her spine snapped”.
The first thing is to say that the jury specifically acquitted Sam Corner of intent.
The second thing is to say that her back was not broken in the sense that is commonly understood: there was absolutely no damage to the spinal cord, no loss of spinal fluid or other serious injury.
What there was – possibly – was an extremely small hairline fracture to one wing of a vertebra. And such a marginal fracture that not only was it not visible to X-Ray, it was missed by the first MRI examination also.
The treatment prescribed was ibuprofen and mild rest – not bed rest. Better in 6 weeks, completely healed in 3 months.
The hasbara team have been in full drive trying to give a completely different impression of this unfortunate but unintentional injury, so it is important to understand what the medical evidence actually said. I am sure it was painful, and I extend my sympathies.
It is worth stating that the sledgehammer injuries inflicted on the activists – especially the completely acquitted Jordan Devlin – by the security guards were in fact worse.
The repression continues. Yesterday hundreds of people were again arrested for “terrorism” offences merely for expressing opposition to this state overreach. This little video I took just before the police moved in to arrest gives I think a very fair indication of the kind of concerned, kind and educated people they are – who are being swept up as terrorists in today’s fascist UK.
On Monday we will hear the English Court of Appeal decision on the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. I am pessimistic and suspect that the timing was long since choreographed with the Filton sentencing in order to provide a weekend of headlines and social media stating that Palestine Action activists had been found by a court to be terrorists, before the Court of Appeal upholds the proscription. Indeed I would not be surprised if Judge Johnson is quoted by the Court of Appeal on Monday.
I am back in Edinburgh, where we have submitted a “reclaiming motion” to reinstate the separate Scottish judicial review, and we hope to have an urgent hearing on whether our appeal can proceed.
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Israel has carte blanche and everyone who questions ( much less) protests Israeli extremism is likely a ‘terrorist’.- as now so defined.
Here’s a quick reminder of some of what Judge Johnson is abusing the law to protect:
https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2024/october/16/israeli-soldiers-sickening-war-crimes
Thanks for that Townsman.
How do I forward to others
I’m not a lawyer, but disregarding a jury in a jury trial seems… unsound. Also, according to the wee snippet of legislation shown, applying aggravation due to terrorist connection appears very dubious if this connection was not clearly made previously in open court.
Are there any grounds or mechanisms for challenging this sentencing if the judge has so clearly strayed so far from sound practice?
In a normal trial scenario, if a jury finds a defendent not guilty of crime X, but guilty of a lesser crime Y, what is there to stop a judge from adjusting the sentencing to crime X level punishment if he feels the jury made a mistake?
(sorry if these are very low-level questions)
The video shows the road lined by nice older people holding placards with familiar wording. I’m a bit concerned about what the consequences for them could be.
As I understand, Tony Greenstein will be on trial in August for such activity.
Such cases will no doubt will no doubt end up in the Supreme Court.
If there’s a change of government in the future, and the Green Party has a big amount of influence (which I hope it will) I hope they will act to prevent the use of de-banking as a weapon against such people.
Watching the video makes me think it appropriate should the brave anti-terrorist police move in, for the whole crowd to break into a rendition of The Bold Gendarmes – or a customized version.
corr. omit second ‘will no doubt’
The Green Party is Labour.
If anyone thinks the Green Party (or Reform) is going to help or change anything then they should prepare for disappointment.
As I understand, the Green Party’s policies are much less favourable to Zionism than Labour. The One State solution is still being debated, as far as I know.
When the law is subverted like this and civil disobedience becomes terrorism, there is no other option than revolution.
Dear Britos, retake your country!
“Remember, remember, the 5th of November!”
Chris Hedges posted the following on his youtube channel yesterday:
Tyranny or Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylSDN1oJt_M (13mins 24secs)
The Nazi mindset didn’t somehow magically disappear with the defeat of Nazi Germany, and is still alive and well and flourishing. And the only revolution that’s gonna work is exposing the fact to the tens of millions who have been duped and don’t have the faintest clue. And we do that by exposing their lies and machinations, and their smearing and demonisation of empaths and truthers – ie how these inhuman malignant malevolent mass-murdering planet-destroying beings are totally TOTALLY evil.
Your last line refers to the date, now celebrated annually, on which the “Gunpowder plot” of Guy Fawkes in 1605 was foiled. The conspirators might well have been motivated by the kind of sentiments expressed in your preceding lines. Britain had turned Protestant in the 1530s. Being a Catholic over the following 70 years, had brought increasing discrimination and even death – from 1585, setting foot in England as a Catholic priest and celebrating the Catholic liturgy was high treason, a capital offence.
This country’s history is not encouraging for revolutionaries. Non-revolutionary changes, such as religious tolerance, democracy and workers’ rights (not without a few martyrs) have come about, but they took generations. This applies indeed to the rise of Protestantism prior to the 1530s, as well as the increasing toleration of Catholicism after the mid-18th century. The Catholic liturgy didn’t become legal till 1791.
I think the salient part is that Fawkes was betrayed by a lord, who he had trusted as a fellow Catholic.
Catholics might have been better off in the long term, and their religious toleration taken a lot less than two centuries, if there had been no gunpowder plot at all.
“Your last line refers to the date, now celebrated annually, on which the “Gunpowder plot” of Guy Fawkes in 1605 was foiled.”
That is, if the whole thing wasn’t set up to smoke out Catholic sympathisers and was designed to fail.
“Catholics might have been better off in the long term, and their religious toleration taken a lot less than two centuries, if there had been no gunpowder plot at all.”
People plotting a revolution in those days probably didn’t care much what would happen if they failed as they knew they would all be dead. It’s hard not to conclude that the actual result was exactly what the then powers that be wanted. Indeed, given the speed of communication in those days, it was necessary for the rising in the rest of England to go ahead before the result of the explosive part of the plot was known. That this failed shows that it it would have done so, even if the House of Lords had been blown up. The only difference would have been that the reprisals against Catholics would have been much more severe, but then that would have been a feature, not a bug to Britain’s remaining Protestant rulers. What did it matter if a few hereditary grandees got blown up? The tiles would have passed to their sons, men who would have had blood in their eye against Catholics.
It’s not subverted I’m afraid it’s working exactly as intended, by the ghouls who drafted it.
The YooKay now has more political prisoners per capita than anywhere else in the world.
The word Kangaroo springs to mind. Whilst the vain glorious congratulate themselves, it’s shameful to see a once regarded system of justice [Ok you have to go a long time back], so degraded. Zionism isn’t the cause, merely a convenient tool for those who suffer the loss of the nineteenth century.
The British system of justice has always been biased and corrupt, it’s just that in the past it was hidden and non obvious to the masses. Now with the zionist infestation the mask hasn’t so much as slipped as it has been ripped off to fully expose the evil to daylight. Now the zionists can laugh in the public’s face and blatantly say ‘f*ck you, we’re in charge, what you going to do about it ?’
Is it an offence to hold a picture of a Kangaroo?
Or of Sir Kier Starmer’s words as a lawyer defending the protester who attacked Israeli armaments?
Or William Penn?
Wouldn’t it be great if someone high up in the Government had been a human rights lawyer and could understand what a terrible road the courts have chosen to go down.
Your post set me looking for material on how power corrupts. Here’s a few references I came across, should anyone be interested:
1. William Fulbright and Bill Clinton, The Arrogance of Power (ISBN 1682260690)
2. David Owen, The Hubris Syndrome (ISBN 1842752197) and Hubris (ISBN 0413778339)
3. Brian Klaas, Corruptible (ISBN 1529338107)
Lord Acton is still worth reading
Re: ‘The activists will serve the full six years in jail:’
Charlotte Head & Leona Kamio were sentenced to 5 years; Fatema Rajwani got 4 years 8 months, with an extra year each on licence. They won’t qualify for automatic early release, but will probably be released before their sentences are complete, provided their behaviour in prison isn’t atrocious.
Re: ‘the very slightly injured policewoman’
In her victim impact statement, former Police Sergeant Kate Evans states that she is still receiving medical treatment for her injuries nearly two years later, and has had to step down from her sergeant’s job due to mot being able to carry out her duties.
Re: ‘and by the look of him that was the only sexual excitement he [Judge Johnson] has ever experienced’
How old is our host again? Anyway, putting any pot-kettle comparisons to one side, I would remind him that it’s perfectly possible for most people to experience sexual excitement without anyone else being present – which would appear to be what the majority of British 18-24 year olds are exclusively doing these days, not that it’s much different in the rest of the West (I’m currently reading Debra Soh’s Sextinction, which is certainly interesting)
‘In her victim impact statement, former Police Sergeant Kate Evans states that she is still receiving medical treatment for her injuries nearly two years later, and has had to step down from her sergeant’s job due to not being able to carry out her duties.’
Yes, I read that in an article just after learning about the sentences they were given, and I expect Craig read as much as well. But how do we know it’s actually true? I have ‘encountered’ more than a few totally corrupt so-called police officers during the past eight years or so! And the PTB could hardly have her making a statement to the court in which she said blah blah blah and that she fully recovered from the injury around three months after it happened. That she said what she DID say was crucial to this so-called judge dishing out the extreme and excessive sentences he DID. Every year hundreds of people (in the UK alone) receive lower sentences for killing or causing life-changing injuries in road crashes!
As for the ‘terrorist connection’ and trying to influence anyone etc, their sole objective was to hinder the flow of weapons being used in the zionists genocide.
Thanks for your reply Allan. We can’t be absolutely sure that Kate Evans isn’t lying, but one way to get a good idea would be to find out whether she is now a constable or still a sergeant, because I can’t see her taking a substantial pay cut (in addition to committing perjury) to go along with some charade that ensures some violent dread-locked idiot gets an extra six months or so in clink.
In general, people convicted of causing serious injury by dangerous driving didn’t do it intentionally. By definition, non-state actors causing damage to people or property in pursuit of political aims is terrorism.
Yes, it’s something akin to walking down a street blindfolded and shooting a gun all over the place and, as such, killing someone. It wasn’t intentional, but if you go belting around the streets at high speed it’s much more likely that you’ll end up killing or very seriously injuring someone, as in life-changing injuries. And in some cases yourself. The sentences the two guys got for killing someone – an eight year old boy – as I cited in my 01.49 post this morning, not only got lower sentences, but unlike the four people in the case, THEY will get time off for good behaviour and, as such, likely only spend about three years in prison…. For killing someone, a kid, with his whole life ahead of him, and totally devastating his parents and other family members. And all because a couple of demented cnuts thought it would be fun to have a race. There is no comparison whatsoever. The four people in the case were trying to do the exact opposite!
Oh, and what were the political aims they were pursuing BTW?
Thanks for your reply Allan. Causing death by dangerous driving is not akin to walking down a street blindfolded shooting a gun all over the place and killing someone, because in that instance it could be reasonably anticipated that you would kill someone, so you would likely be charged with murder not manslaughter. Presumably only one of the boy racers you refer to actually hit the guy, so the other one has some reason to feel aggrieved by his 4 year 8 month sentence.
If we assume that Samuel Corner got 5 years for the criminal damage, then he only got 2 years 8 months for GBH, and he was very lucky not to be convicted of GBH with intent (which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment) because Section 18 of the Offences against the Person Act specifically includes ‘intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer of any person’ in its definition.
As stated themselves, the political aims of Palestine Action are/were to stop the export of military equipment from the UK to Israel, by direct action.
So do you think the sentence the guy got who hit and killed the kid was appropriate? As for the other guy, they were racing each other, and had HE been in front, then it would have been HIM that hit and killed the kid. The ‘Speed Kills’ slogan has been around for decades, and I’m talking about excessive speed, and in my book people who do so endanger pedestrians and other road users everywhere they go and, as such, are potential killers, because they CHOSE to drive at excessive speed and endanger other other people’s lives.
As for what you said at the end of your post, can you post a link to PA saying such, as what I just happened to come across in a Wikipedia entry entitled Palestine Action is the following:
In April 2022, two Palestine Action protestors chained themselves to the gates of a factory of UAV Tactical Systems Ltd, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, in Braunstone. Other activists gathered nearby with signs stating “Free Palestine”. Three protestors were arrested. A spokesperson for the group said that “Direct action will not cease until all Elbit sites are closed”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Action
Israeli politicians made it quite clear from the outset that their intention was genocide, and Starmer and David – hamas-raped-babies – Lammy et al knew that, but they continued to support Israel when their obligation was to to do all they could to try and stop it happening. All PA were trying to do is save lives, and how on earth is that political, and why should it somehow be illegal even if it is for some reason political. And WHO made it political? Oh my word, trying to save peoples’ lives and stop a genocide is now illegal, in effect.
They’ll be arresting ME next for campaigning for much harsher penalties for speeding and trying to save peoples’ lives, as such, and reduce the number of people killed on the roads, and the shock and mind-blowing devastation it causes.
Thanks for your reply Allan. To answer your question: No, I don’t. I think his sentence should have been substantially longer.
As it’s now a proscribed organisation, I don’t imagine Palestine Action has a website, but you can find out about its aims by typing ‘palestine action aims’ into a well-known, popular search engine that knows more about most people in the West than they know about themselves.
Someone campaigning to end the death penalty in Texas might claim that all they are doing is trying to save lives, but they are by definition engaging in political activity. There are plenty of ways in which people can oppose genocide in Gaza (and elsewhere) without engaging in criminal activity, e.g. by standing for election.
“because I can’t see her taking a substantial pay cut (in addition to committing perjury) to go along with some charade that ensures some violent dread-locked idiot gets an extra six months or so in clink.”
How about and very large ex-gratia payment for the “injuries suffered in the course of duty”? When even the Civil Service routinely lies to you, I don’t think many people these days are going to be particularly worried about being economical with the truth, especially when it is the authorities asking them to do it, the same authorities that would be responsible for prosecuting them for perjury. Remind me of the dates of the trials of the women who perjured themselves in the Salmon trial.
I wonder how the police managed to get a reputation for lying under oath, given that none of them would, in reality dream of doing so.
“By definition, non-state actors causing damage to people or property in pursuit of political aims is terrorism.”
Does it not worry you that the definition of terrorism doesn’t involve any actual terror? What next, a new definition of murder that doesn’t involve anyone losing their life or being drunk in charge of a road vehicle without any vehicles or alcohol being involved?
“some violent dread-locked idiot ”
No prejudice there, then. Perhaps after you have tested the non-lethality of a .22 pistol on the side of the head, you can try finding out how much you can see after you’ve sprayed PAVA spray into your eyes.
Thanks for your reply Bayard. It would have to be a very large payout to compensate her for the loss of earnings should she remain a constable for the rest of her career. No I don’t believe that any of the alphabetties will be going on trial for perjury anytime soon, but then Scotland is basically a failed state at this point – and the rest of the UK is rapidly becoming one. No, it doesn’t worry me that the definition of terrorism might not necessarily involve anyone being terrified, though in this case it’s likely that someone actually was.
When it comes to Mr Corner, there’s no prejudice on my part, just facts: violent, check; dread-locked, check; idiot, check. Once again, as you insist on repeatedly dragging this up apropos of nothing: I didn’t say that .22 short ammo was incapable of killing when fired at point blank range into a skull, merely that it couldn’t be *guaranteed* to. It’s worth remembering that RFK was shot in the head with a pistol calibred in the considerably more powerful .22 long rifle, and it still didn’t kill him straight away – he was probably killed by the surgeons poking around trying to remove the bullet. I know you don’t believe that JFK was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, but believing that RFK wasn’t shot by Sirhan Sirhan is quite the take.
Yes dearest Agnostic, we are all rahra rah wa wa wa wankers, but why do you feel the need to put us on the same level as this evil Johnson wanker?
Why do you still choose to elucidate your petty critic on our host who you so avidly read for years? A tad of pathetic self grandising? Ah, you all have a great sunday, whilst these dedicated young activist feel the nastiness of our UK prison system.🤮
Thanks for your reply, nevermind. I have no idea about Judge Johnson’s sexual proclivities, and neither I would wager do you or our host. So quite why he inserted that juvenile sexual reference is beyond me – in the clip Johnson appears to be calm and even slightly bored, rather than exhibiting any obvious excitement.
I have been criticizing our host because I also have no idea why he has decided to robustly defend outright thuggery which does the pro-Palestinian cause no good at all. I would remind people that the European airliner hi-jackings carried out by Leila Khaled & co in the 60s & 70s (not to mention the assassination of RFK) set it back decades in the West. How many Palestinian children’s lives will have been saved through their actions? The answer of course is none: virtually all the Gazan dead have been killed by bombs & bullets, and disease due to severe malnutrition, not drones – Gaza isn’t eastern Ukraine.
If I wished to self-aggrandize (pathetically or otherwise), I probably wouldn’t be writing under a nom de plume.
JFK was killed by Palestinians? Relapsed A? Can you evidence that with any links?
Thanks for your reply, nevermind. Robert Francis Kennedy Sr (JFK’s brother) was shot and killed by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, in 1968, in revenge for his support for Israel in the Six-Day War a year earlier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy#Assassination
” I also have no idea why he has decided to robustly defend outright thuggery which does the pro-Palestinian cause no good at all.”
That’s because it wasn’t “outright thuggery”, which concept exists purely in your head and the heads of other people duped by the official narrative. I think what you are suffering from is called cognitive dissonance, the collision of a world view with a contradicting reality. If you start from the point that it is not “outright thuggery”, then all becomes clear. When the facts collide with the narrative it is time for a new narrative, not new facts.
Robert Francis Kennedy Sr (JFK’s brother) was shot and killed by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, in 1968, in revenge for his support for Israel in the Six-Day War a year earlier:”
If that’s the official story, the only thing we can be certain of is that whoever did it, it wasn’t Sirhan Sirhan.
According to the BBC
Sgt Evans held back tears as she read an impact statement to the court which revealed she was still receiving medical treatment and had been forced to give up her rank after struggling in the aftermath of the attack.
“The emotional impact of this incident has been profound and ongoing.
“I experience disturbed sleep, often waking in a panicked state or after distressing dreams,” she said.
She also told the court that Corner had shown “no sign of shock or regret” after he hit her and that he had only attempted to “justify his actions with baseless and offensive claims that [she] was complicit in genocide”.
In a statement released after sentencing, Avon and Somerset Police’s Chief Constable, Sarah Crew, said: “What happened that night changed the life of one of our officers. For Sgt Evans, this has been deeply personal, painful and lasting.
“It is important everyone realises that behind every uniform is an ordinary person.
“Someone with a family, with responsibilities, and a life beyond the job.”
Oh right, and what about the emotional impact of Israel’s genocide on the people of Gaza and the slaughter and maiming of hundreds of thousands and the total destruction of their homeland, and the tens of thousands of children who have lost one or both parents.
I think we can safely assume that all of THAT has had no emotional impact whatsoever on Kate Evans during the past two-and three quarter years! What a fucking sick fucking joke!!
AND, re the children, the emotional impact of losing brothers and sisters blown to bits by the murderous zionists, let alone the impact on any surviving parents. And how often have the MSM related and recounted any of THAT during the past two-and-three-quarter years?!!
BTW, thanks for posting George, and just to be clear, I wasn’t castigating YOU of course.
If Kate Evans did say the things reported then she is obviously a liar. She has probably been got at and reminded about who pays her salary and pension. Someone who lies to harm other people deserves no sympathy whatsoever.
Here’s a Bristol Live report about the aftermath for Kate Evans.
What makes it obvious that she’s lying or been got at?
I think Samuel Corner cooked his own goose and possibly also that of his fellow PA activists, by attacking her with a sledge hammer. He made himself into a violent criminal. I don’t see him being released in a hurry, even if an appeal against the ‘terrorist connection’ part of the sentence against the Filton 4 succeeds.
I just read the Bristol Live report, and all I can say is that if what Evans says is true, then how on earth did the jury specifically acquit Sam Corner of intent, because surely they must have had some reason to do so. Do we know what Sam Corner said about it – did he at any point agree that he whacked her hard, twice, with the seven pound sledge hammer, or contest that version of events?
I was just looking through Craig’s coverage of the trial posted on December 7th to see if I could find any relevant information regarding Sam Corner, but didn’t come across anything, BUT, in the process of looking through it I came across the following, which is quite astonishing given what Johnson said when sentencing them on Friday:
Judge Johnson has directed the jury that the events in the Filton trial predated the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist action and they must not allow that subsequent development to influence them in any way.
Whaaaaaat?, as Chris Griffin would say.
My guess, and it’s only a guess, is that the jury may have thought that Corner acted in the heat of the moment, without consciously intending to rearrange Kate Evans’ anatomy. But he was still responsible for wielding the sledge hammer, and hence they found him guilty of GBH.
That’s why, even if an appeal succeeds in overturning the ‘terrorist connection’ part of the conviction, I doubt whether Corner will be released with the others, though with the time already spent in jail, he might not have to be behind bars more than an additional year or so.
This is from a report in January 2026 on the speech by Defence Barrister Tom Wainwright on behalf of Samuel Corner:
“That night in Filton from when PC Buxton entered the factory to when Sam was sprayed in the eyes was just 15 seconds, and then it was no more than 45 seconds later that he struck PS Evans.
(…)
Mr Wainwright asked the jury to remember the prosecution’s opening speech. There was no mention of the PAVA spray in it. The court was only told about it in PC Buxton’s evidence confirming he used it just after Sam Corner responded to Mr Volante’s assault on Jordan Devlin. Buxton said it was a prohibited weapon that makes it hard to see and causes intense pain. Sam described it as like stinging nettles in and around his eyes.”
https://realmedia.press/the-filton-trial-defence-speeches/#Wainwright-Corner
As for Sergeant Evans’s injuries, the only lasting effect that she describes sounds like PTSD, and even that seems like an over-reaction to a minor incident of the type that a police officer would be expected to face many times in their career.
“What makes it obvious that she’s lying or been got at?”
Do you honestly believe that no police officer has ever lied to a court of law since the days of Sir Robert Peel? Kate Evans had strong incentives to lie and almost none to tell the truth. Given that, even amongst the commenters on this blog there are those who think that Corner is a “violent dread-locked idiot”, is it likely that someone whom he has caused pain is going to pass up the chance to see him sent down for a long stretch, even if it does involve telling a few porkies?
“If Kate Evans did say the things reported then she is obviously a liar.”
Indeed. Having been arrested on several DoJ sits now, one of the first things we were told was ‘NEVER believe the police’. My thoughts were that she is after compensation or a tidy ill health retirement deal. I’ve had worse spinal fractures than that falling off my horse and been back mucking out in a couple of days – she’s certainly not still got symptoms from it two years later.
I wonder if this event had inputs from this crowd !
“A secretive Home Office propaganda unit, RICU, founded by a former MI6 officer in 2007, has been covertly advising police on “controlling the narrative” during race riots in Belfast and Southampton. Critics say the 22-strong outfit – which plants media stories, deploys undercover operatives and reportedly ghost-writes victims’ family statements”
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/06/14/revealed-the-shadowy-government-thought-police-unit-suppressing-speech-to-keep-a-lid-on-racial-tensions/
The main thing seems to be that terrorism is the act of trying to persuade the government by violent/damaging means that what they are doing is illegal.
Under the UN Conventions on Genocide as in ‘ To prevent a genocide in Part or in Whole ‘ is a legal duty for all the signatories to the same UN Laws.
So, the British Government is complicit and culpable of facilitating/assisting in Part ( at least ) Genocide on the Gazans and the alleged ‘ Terrorists ‘ are obeying the UN rules but , the British State is not.
If this ever gets to The Hague then a lot of people in power will have a lot of explaining to do.
I hope there will be no pleas of only obeying orders for individual State Laws.
Well I suppose whenever a government on the Westminster regime’s sh*tlist resorts to force or rigged trials & punitive prison sentences to quell any “colour revolution” type nonsense
The regime’s propaganda apparatus and empty headed dumbf*ck ministers won’t bore the world.with their moralising verbal flatulence.then eh?
I left at 16.50 and the court had announced that the sentence would be announced on Monday! what the hell happened! Court finished at 16.30 and there had been no sentencing. What time was this court sentencing done?
I can only assume that THAT was a ruse (by the nazy scumbags) so as to have many of the people protesting leave before the sentences were announced…. Their little joke, so that they and their ilk can have a good larf about it.
nazty scumbags, that is
Anyway, here’s an example of what I said in an earlier post (from February, 2023), and I’ve come across dozens and dozens and dozens of similar such stories during the past twenty years or so (since I started campaigning for deterrents that really DO deter people from speeding):
Two men jailed over death of ‘sweet’ eight-year-old boy killed while crossing the road
The men believed to have been ‘racing’ in the street have been handed prison sentences after an eight-year-old boy tragically died when he was hit by a car while crossing the road…
Safiullah Asif was sent ‘flying in the air’ after being struck by a BMW in Tameside, Greater Manchester on July 23, 2020.
He was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries, but died the following evening.
Safiullah had been playing with his brother and cousin at the time of the collision.
On Thursday, Kevin Jones, 36, from the Wirral, was jailed for four years and eight months, while Thomas McGrath, 24, of Stockport was jailed for the same amount of time for causing death by dangerous driving…..
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/two-men-jailed-over-death-29296303
And here’s another (from September, 2025):
‘Slap in the face’: Family’s fury as illegal immigrant who caused son’s death still not deported years on from tragedy
Cameron Arneaud, 20, was riding his motorbike home from work when he was struck down by another driver on 22 December 2023 in Finedon, Northamptonshire.
Syed Bukhari, 27, from Pakistan, had failed to observe a stop sign. He was later jailed for 30 weeks for causing death by careless/inconsiderate driving.
Cameron’s devastated dad, Daniel, arrived on the scene just minutes after the incident, which saw Cameron thrown from his bike….
Nearly a year after the fatal crash, Bukhari was jailed for 30 weeks at Northampton Crown Court for causing death by careless/inconsiderate driving, but he was released after just 10 weeks because of overpopulated prisons…..
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/family-illegal-immigrant-killer-uk-collision-5HjdDSr_2/
Thirty weeks is totally outrageous, but then to be released after just ten weeks…for killing someone as a consequence of ignoring a stop sign!
“Sentence first, verdict later.”
Alice in Wonderland
Johnson said: “I am sure that each defendant’s offence … was designed to intimidate the UK government and a section of the public … and was for the purpose of advancing a political or ideological cause.” Interesting how he can be so sure of that after having banned their lawyers from letting the jury know anything at all about their motives for the raid on Elbit Systems.
The illusion of living in a free, democratic society is being exposed at every turn these days.
But, it’s always been like this – it’s just more brazen in the internet age?
Sad.
In the months after the A/S black op smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn and his left-wing supporters kicked off, one of the platitudes the nazty folk dreamed up was that ‘now Corbyn has been elected leader all the antisemites have come crawling out of the woodwork’, but given that it was a massive falsehood, what they were actually saying for those who knew the score, is that all the fascist black propagandists have now come out of the woodwork to demonise JC (and his colleagues and supporters) and subvert democracy as such. Just as they did with Ken Livingstone when he was leader of the GLC; and when their smears and fear-mongering and demonisation didn’t have the desired effect (he was in fact becoming MORE popular as time went by), the fascist scum abolished the GLC, along with the six Metropolitan County Councils, all of which were – at the time – controlled by left-wing administrations.
Just came across this MSN article – and the HEADLINE – whilst in the process of checking something out:
Judge rules Palestine Action thugs carried out ‘act of terrorism’ as he jails raiders
https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/other/police-arrest-107-people-for-supporting-proscribed-terror-group-palestine-action-outside-court/ar-AA25upmn
I just spotted (when I went back to the article to copy the headline) that it’s a DM article that they’ve reposted. So here’s the headline and a link to the original:
Judge rules Palestine Action thugs carried out ‘act of terrorism’ as he jails weeping weapons factory raiders while police arrest more than 100 supporters outside court
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15895097/Judge-rules-attack-Palestine-Action-supporters-UK-defence-factory-saw-police-officer-struck-sledgehammer-terror-connection-landmark-case.html
Given that MSN modified the headline, they could also have left out the ‘thugs’ bit, but they didn’t. Hmm, very impartial reporting, eh?!
It seems highly HIGHLY unlikely to me that they caused £1.2million of damage at the factory, and I’d be surprised if it was even a tenth of that. Anyway, came across this vid last night of the demo outside the court, and the fuzz throwing and pushing people around:
‘FU*K YOU’: London On Boil After Judge Indicts ‘Palestine Action’ Activists Over Israeli Firm Attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSxVwtkhCzc (Times of India 8mins 22secs)
IMO. Unless this report is put into the public domain and contains identification of the authors, an itemised list, high level even, of costed, damaged items then it can be safely assumed to be zionist PR and total BS.
“For a first offence of criminal damage, an absolute maximum of about three years imprisonment might be given in the most extreme circumstances. ”
Craig,
Please could you provide a source/reference for this? Everything I read says 10 years for damage over £5000.
Paul
Could you post a link or two from the stuff you’ve read. Thanks
That is simply nonsense
Re Pauls’ request for references. I am no lawyer but this is what I find.
The Criminal Damage Act 1971 under which the defendants were charged. Section 4 certainly states:
1)A person guilty of arson under section 1 above or of an offence under section 1(2) above (whether arson or not) shall on conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for life.
(2)A person guilty of any other offence under this Act shall on conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years.
See: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/48/contents
However of more relevance are the current Sentencing Council Guidelines for a Category 1 Offence involving possible high value of damage which states 6 months – 4 years’ for a custodial sentence.
Judge Johnson used the terrorism add on to get himself off the hook. Had he not resorted to it he would certainly found it difficult to apply any sentence that could satisfy the persecuting State particularly in that he would need to take into account the mitigating factors such as no previous convictions and in Sam Corner’s case his autism. He would have to admit the real reasons for the group’s actions if he tried to buck the sentencing guidelines.
See: https://sentencingcouncil.org.uk
In light of the ICJ ruling their action was not criminal damage.
If someone broke a knife about to be used for murder is that criminal damage? People would say well done and be shocked if they were prosecuted for terrorism. This is all that they did only on a far bigger scale.
The motive, evidence and jury verdicts = a £5 fine so this shitehouse auditions for the Volksgericht. I hope they appeal but I fear that the state will make sure that if they can, they have to wait.
Releasing Tommy Robinson was not an act of fascism. It was a contempt of court case, where he met all the conditions to release him from the contempt.
You are becoming ridiculous that anyone who doesn’t agree with you is a fascist.
I see he has been arrested on arrival at Heathrow: ‘ Far-right activist Tommy Robinson was detained at Heathrow Airport on Saturday, June 13, 2026, under counter-terrorism laws. Police seized his communication devices before releasing him without charge after nearly three hours of questioning.’ [Google AI overview]
Yep, his “contempt of court” charge is farcical in the context of Britain’s courts being *truly* contemptible in their rulings, practices & manifest injustices.
If he’s to be investigated or charged with anything, it’s the massive grift & scamming operations he’s running. As part of an organised criminal enterprise.
I took part in a protest in 1968 outside the US Embassy in London, against US atrocities in Vietnam. Almost all of us were young people, students etc.
The depressing thing about recent demonstrations against British support of Israeli atrocities is that most people there are relatively old. Many of these demonstrators probably protested against US atrocities in 1968, or the anti-apartheid demonstrations in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Don’t younger generations have a conscience any more? Is getting money all that matters to them? Don’t they have any empathy with the Palestinians, many of whom are suffering torture so horrible, so unspeakable, that I can’t bring myself to watch the videos published by independent news outlets – which by the way only tell us about the torture – the torture itself could never be published.
Are you sure you’re not confusing the national demos/marches with the demos in which people are holding placards saying they support Palestine Action, most of whom are elderly and retired, as such, because on the national demos I’ve been on there have been numerous young people, along with numerous people of ALL age groups. I’m sure there are videos taken from a view-point a little above the marchers (and to one side or the other) that show the marchers coming towards them (but I could spend ages trying to find such a video), so here’s one I found of someone being interviewed and people walking past them, and it of course shows a mix of people of ALL ages:
Thousands More Turn Out For Pro-Palestinian Protests In London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCXrBONGRuU (Novara Media 10mins)
The marches are dominated by the young, as is support for the only anti-Genocide political party. That’s no secret.
What do you make of the age profile of supporters of the pro-Genocide parties (aka the uniparty) and consumers of pro-Genocide media?
This isn’t quite what I was looking for, but it’ll do. Check out the graph (re age groups):
UK Public Support Palestinian Statehood By Three To One
https://dorseteye.com/uk-public-support-palestinian-statehood-by-three-to-one/
And it’s from almost a year ago now
“Don’t younger generations have a conscience any more? Is getting money all that matters to them? Don’t they have any empathy with the Palestinians…”
I think you need to look again at the subject matter of CM’s post. Why is it that people must denigrate “the young people” who are exactly the same as we all were when we were young. Just as smart (or not) and just as interested (or not) as any generation of young people.
Samuel Corner, 23, received the longest sentence of seven years and eight months. The remaining defendants, Charlotte Head, 30, Leona Kamio, 30, and Fatema Rajwani, 21, were sentenced to terms ranging from four years and eight months to five years.
They are far more informed about Israel than any previous generation of young people. Is it coincidence that Starmer is suddenly seeking to ban young people from social media?
Remember Assange?
Remember Skripals,
Remember David Kelly,
Remember democracy !
Remember Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (Lockerbie)
Anthony Blunt’s immunity
Stefan Kisko
Willie McRae
Pat Finucane
Hilda Murrell
the Guildford Four
the Birmingham Six
Alex Salmond
Remember Lucy Letby…
Just the tip of a dirty iceberg of offically instigated injustice. Just like the corruption, I could go on and on.
The BBC reports that the Court of Appeal has ruled that the government’s proscription of Palestine Action was lawful.
I suppose it will be appealed to the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile I would count to ten before making any statement that includes the name of a proscribed organisation.
The following are a couple of passages from a piece Craig posted on May 13th entitled URGENT FILTON TRIAL UPDATE
Violence against property can be construed as terrorism in the UK if the objective is to influence government. Extraordinarily, Judge Johnson has indicated that he believes that the actions against the Israeli weapons factories may be intended to influence the policy of the government of Israel. He will announce his final decision at sentencing but he has already told the court (but not the jury) that is his thinking….
Two of the six defendants were completely acquitted. Three were acquitted on all counts, except the most minor one of criminal damage. But for this Johnson can sentence them to ten years in prison, and use the terrorism aggravation to remove the possibility of parole.
This is astonishing for two reasons:
Firstly, the notion that those damaging Israeli weapons did so in the hope of changing Netanyahu’s mind about destroying Gaza – as opposed to destroying some of his weapons supply – is plainly nonsensical.
The second is that if they were trying to change Netanyahu’s mind, they were trying to influence him against committing Genocide.
Which only a hardwired zionist nutter like Judge Johnson can consider a bad thing….
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/05/urgent-filton-trial-update/
I just did a search re >palestine action thugs< so as to determine if this is gonna now be a regular add-on by the rabid right-wing goebbels press – ie the 'thugs' bit, that is, and came across the following in the Sun (from a couple of days ago) which, as with the DM article I cited in an earlier post, MSN reposted as well:
Zack Polanksi branded a ‘disgrace’ for backing Palestine Action thugs who left cop with a fractured spine
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/39402237/zack-polanski-disgrace-backs-palestine-thugs-cop-fractured-spine/
I just did a search to find out what MSN stands for, and it ‘stands for Microsoft Network, which is a web portal and collection of Internet services provided by Microsoft’
Hmmm…..
Ah, I forgot to mention how the Sun headline subtlety includes (and involves) all four of them in leaving a ‘cop with a fractured back’.
Anyway, the following article also came up when I did a search on the Sun, so I may as well post it as well, from Feb 13th:
Dangerous Palestine Action cranks get a free pass as left-wing thugs and ECHR have judges over a barrel
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38221410/palestine-action-sun-says-echr-judges/
“I just did a search re >palestine action thugs< so as to determine if this is gonna now be a regular add-on by the rabid right-wing goebbels press – ie the 'thugs' bit, that is, …"
Well spotted. It's now possible to tell people who have been
drinking the Kool Aid, believing the official narrative by their use of that word.‘it is important to understand what the medical evidence actually said.’
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The gulf between the reported medical evidence and Sgt Evans statement is vast, almost as if the medical evidence was completely ignored.
Was it actually read out and cross-examined?
George Jeffreys, Roland Freisler, Andrey Vyshinsky, Jeremy Johnson – who’s the odd one out?
Jeremy Johnson – all the others are dead.
The jury in the Filton trial needs to jointly sign a statement complaining about the non disclosure of certain facts ordered by the judge. That includes the terrorist label for sentencing post trial.