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Originally Posted by Derek
A large number of the people arrested at Fortnum and Mason have had their charges dropped.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14189892
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It's very consistent with sentences for other charges of violent disorder. Acting in a group for a common illegal goal will always attract a higher sentence than single incidents. |
So, the gangs of drunken yobs we see rampaging through the city streets all get sixteen months? The recent EDL marches where the thugs have been arrested, what sentences did they get? Both of those examples are "
acting in a group for a common illegal goal."
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Originally Posted by Chris
I'm not in the hang em high brigade ... But neither do I buy the claim of "moment of insanity" when someone has gone to a protest kitted out with a mask and gloves. He obviously intended to do things that might make his identity of interest to the boys in blue. And his "moment" was caught on several cameras, in several locations, over an extended period of time during the day.
He went intent on hell raising and took steps not to get caught. Personally I am very comfortable with the principle of him being made an example of.
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Mask and gloves? It was a scarf and woolly gloves, it was November, it was cold. I am pretty sure that almost everyone went out that day with a scarf and gloves; hardly damning, is it. Reading poetry, is not exactly what many people would call "
intent on hell raising."