Tommy In Trouble Again...

[Spicerack]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8066895/Tommy-Robinson-arrested-common-assault-row-Center-Parcs-swimming-pool.html

[naomi24]

Mozz, I've never said AH is a stalker.

[SparklyKid]

This is not a debate in any way. Just another opportunity for Tommy haters to spout their bile.

[andy-hughes]

SparklyKid - // This is not a debate in any way. Just another opportunity for Tommy haters to spout their bile. //

Speaking as someone who is not a 'Tommy hater' and does not 'spout' bile or anything else - does this mean that this will be your sole contribution to the thread?

[EDDIE51]

You have GOT to stop thinking that The Daily Wail is a newspaper !!!
It is actually intended to be a joke sheet !
Real newspapers send it items that are too stupid for them to publish !

[Mozz71]

//Mozz, I've never said AH is a stalker.//

I remember differently, but they say the memory is the first thing to go.

Apologies offered to Naomi and AH.

(This is becoming a habit)

[naomi24]

Eddie, it's reported in other papers too. If you google it you'll no doubt find one that suits your vastly superior intellect rather better.

[andy-hughes]

Mozz - // /Mozz, I've never said AH is a stalker.//

I remember differently, but they say the memory is the first thing to go.

Apologies offered to Naomi and AH.

(This is becoming a habit) //

Thanks - but no problem for me, I get called a lot worse on here!!

[naomi24]

Mozz, your memory is playing tricks on you, but thanks for the apology.

[andy-hughes]

naomi - // Eddie, it's reported in other papers too. If you google it you'll no doubt find one that suits your vastly superior intellect rather better. //

Ouch!!

[jackthehat]

I'm no great friend of the self-promoter known as Tommy Robinson; however, if the circumstances of the incident are as described then it is really no wonder that he lost his rag with the man he believed assaulted his daughter.

In this instance, the incident only came to our attention because of who he is and I feel sorry for his young daughter who has now been inadvertently identified as the victim in this assault.

[pixie374]

Mozz, //Roy, do we know if that has been confirmed, or reported to the police?

I can't help but wonder if it's being used to cover up an unmotivated attack, or at least one with a lesser reason for happening. I hope not.//

I hope it is. It's better than being true...

[Barmaid]

I am more concerned about the fact that there has been an alleged sexual assault on an 8 year old girl which is now the subject of a You Tube video by her father. Not only clearly identifying her (his daughter) but also "interviewing her" about the alleged incident.

What happened to the anonymity of child witnesses or victims of sexual assault? To what extent this may have damaged a future prosecution is anyone's guess.

I have immense sympathy with any father protecting his child, but yabbering it all over the internet is not really in her best interests.

[andy-hughes]

Barmaid - // I am more concerned about the fact that there has been an alleged sexual assault on an 8 year old girl which is now the subject of a You Tube video by her father. Not only clearly identifying her (his daughter) but also "interviewing her" about the alleged incident.

What happened to the anonymity of child witnesses or victims of sexual assault? To what extent this may have damaged a future prosecution is anyone's guess.

I have immense sympathy with any father protecting his child, but yabbering it all over the internet is not really in her best interests. //

I would entirely agree.

Sadly, 'Tommy' appears so caught up in his world of self-publicity and unshakeable self-righteousness, that he is utterly unable to pass up an opportunity to address the world from the centre of his ego and remind everyone how persecuted and hard-done- to he is.

The fact that his own child's personal identity and security, and privacy are collateral damage in his war of self-promotion is a tragedy beyond words.

[Mozz71]

//I hope it is. It's better than being true//

True. I hope its just a big misunderstanding.

[royfromaus]

Mozz, clearly you and andy haven't bothered to watch the video linked @ 00:25 Tue 03rd Mar 2020

[andy-hughes]

Mozz - // //I hope it is. It's better than being true//

True. I hope its just a big misunderstanding. //

This does highlight the problem of being 'Tommy Robinson'.

A parent with his daughter in a swimming pool observes someone brushing accidentally against his daughter, and may speak to the man about it.

'Tommy Robinson' has to assault the man, and get arrested for it.

Because he is 'Tommy Robinson', the media are all over it like a rash, so the sensible thing to do is to say nothing to anyone until the situation is sorted out and the truth is reported. Either way, his daughter is, at best the subject of unpleasant media attention courtesy of her father's chosen method of making money, at worst the victim of a sexual assault.

Either way, she needs some comfort and support and privacy - what she does not need is her identity splashed all over the internet by some idiot reporter more keen to get a 'story' out there than to protect an innocent traumatised child.

Fortunately, the Press Code Of Conduct prevents any media from intruding into this child's life purely in the interest of spinning a story that may yet be the cause of legal action.

Sadly 'citizen journalists' (snigger) are not bound by such legal, or indeed moral codes of conduct, so any one of those bottom-feeders can carry on and expose this child's identity and trauma to the world at large.

You would expect a loving father to do anything and everything to protect his daughter from such a gross invasion of her young life, wouldn't you?

But if her father is 'Tommy Robinson' - not only does he not do that, he plays the 'citizen journalist' himself and traumatises her even further in pursuit of his own self-aggrandisement and ego-polishing

The man is beneath contempt.

[SparklyKid]

The only person beneath contempt is the alleged groper of the daughter of my hero,Tommy.

[andy-hughes]

royfromaus - // Mozz, clearly you and andy haven't bothered to watch the video linked @ 00:25 Tue 03rd Mar 2020 //

That is not a 'lie' - that is simply stating something that is not true.

I have watched the video, and I marvel at a father who, being told by his daughter of an incident which has upset her, feels the need to record it, with the clear intention of sharing it with thousands of strangers who perversely think that what he says and does about anything is worthy of their attention.

[andy-hughes]

SpraklyKid - // The only person beneath contempt is the alleged groper of the daughter of my hero,Tommy. //

You are back then!

What we have is an alleged assault by a man who is innocent until proven guilty on one hand, and 'Tommy Robinson' being his usual self and getting filmed being arrested (why waste a media opportunity!) and then putting out film of his daughter telling him about what she says has happened.

Your 'hero' is a man who turns a conversation with his child about an alleged assault into a media news clip for his own self-publicity.

You have an odd choice of 'hero'!

[royfromaus]

If you have watched the video you have the attention span of a gnat.