Can We Now Discuss This Case?

[anotheoldgit]

ABSpareEditor

I don't know if this was the story that we can't debate on, but according to the Daily Mail reporting restrictions were lifted this afternoon.

[tamborine]

I dont believe TR is so naive to plead guilty to contempt of court. Is there any proof ie recording or report signed by him? Most defendants (on tv) plead 'no comment' so CPS have to make a case for conviction. All of which takes more time than 2hrs & instant jail.

Ps kindly take pedantic grammar elsewhere & not derail this thread.

[Gromit]

Tambo,
He pleaded guilty last year when he received his suspended sentence at Canterbury.
I think his own film is damning evidence and his lawyer will tell him so.

[Gromit]

Tambo

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/tommy-robinson-contempt-of-court-1619252

[Peter Pedant]

'“If I have to do that it will mean a re-trial, costing hundreds and hundreds and thousands of pounds.”//
judgie baby

actually there is a power in one of the very many Criminal Law Amendment acts to carry on wivvout
Judge discharges the jury and hears the case by himself.
This power was used in Manchester a few months ago.

The judge is also showing a love of super-injunctions ( forbidding even mention that the case has taken place - so much for public justice ) which has been rightly challenged. ( the LCJ commented earlier er this decade that there was almost never a case for super-injunctions )

Other than that I cant see much wrong with the report

[anneasquith]

Pled/pleaded guilty use as you wish, he's still in prison .

[andy-hughes]

Tambo - // I dont believe TR is so naive to plead guilty to contempt of court. Is there any proof ie recording or report signed by him? Most defendants (on tv) plead 'no comment' so CPS have to make a case for conviction. All of which takes more time than 2hrs & instant jail. //

I would suggest - and this is merely conjecture - that 'Tommy Robinson's legal counsel will have advised a guilty plea, weighed against the risk of a not guilty plea being heard in court, dismissed, and a heavier penalty imposed.

[anotheoldgit]

jack-the-hat

/// Goodness me, AOG, do you imagine you are some sort of Truth-warrior?
This was discussed, at length, on several threads over the weekend and the way you have worded your question (yet again) doesn't allow for much sensible expansion on that....
17:13 Tue 29th May 2018 ///

Yet at 22:27 the same night you were still up contributing to this thread, which according to you, was discussed at length on several threads over the weekend, amazing, absolutely amazing.

But it seems it was at a cost:

When you called out at 22:32

Nurse.....!

Having heard nothing further from you on this thread since then, I do hope that you are okay?

[-Talbot-]

https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1001770499452567555?s=19


Nail on the head.

[THECORBYLOON]

TAMBO, if Robinson had not in fact pled guilty, would there not be reports from him and his legal team rightly denying that falsehood?

[Islay]

So when is the OP actually going to discuss the case ?

[Togo]

This was on the tube a couple of days ago. I presume that we can view it now without fear of arrest.

[Mamyalynne]

Talbot's link contains some powerful points - the way things have gone have allowed some to use situations and gain notoriety from them and in some cases this can overshadow what needs addressing and should have been addressed earlier.

We can't go back but this must be a signal to act and not wait for activists to take up the cudgel.

[Barmaid]

I agree Mamy. It is appalling that these gangs were allowed to get away with so much for so long.

But now there are ongoing investigations and linked trials they should not be put in jeopardy by self opinionated nutters who think they are above the law.

[Mamyalynne]

Agreed, I'm not defending Mr Robinson, he knew what he was doing and I'm rather surprised he didn't have a bag packed.

[tamborine]

Its a kin fatwa against the indiginous! Thankyou AB for allowing this thread.

[Islay]

What are you on about Tambo?

[tamborine]

Corbyloon, TR called for solicitors in his live stream. I know police can refuse personal solicitors access to clients in cells. We dont know if TR had solicitors at the ready.

[jackthehat]

I'm fine, thank you, AOG.

I was calling for the Nurse to attend to Tambo, who seems to be continuing in the same vein today.

I'm permanently bemused by the number of people who view a desire to see the 'due process' of the legal system carried out correctly and at best cost to the Taxpayer as some sort of defence of Rapists of any kidney.....

[tamborine]

Kidney....lol! You need the nurse JTH

[vetuste_ennemi]

//But now there are ongoing investigations and linked trials they should not be put in jeopardy by self opinionated nutters who think they are above the law//

Remember the recent Telford revelations, Barmaid? It was hot news for about ten days.

There were allegedly a thousand rape victims (although this number has been described as an exaggeration by the local police chief), and apparently two hundred suspected perpetrators. We heard that twenty men had been charged and were facing trial. Do you know what has happened to that case?