That Joey Barton case is hilarious. How did we get to a point something as nothing as this required a jury? Jeremy Vine was “completely devastated” to be called a “bike nonce”. I suppose I would be upset if that was going to be my nickname forever.
Massive waste of time. Heard people called worse in a pub and laugh it off, seen people called worse on here most days. Eni Aluko comes across as if she's aware she's there to tick a box and it ****s with her confidence
I don't particularly like the guy but I agree hurty words on the internet shouldn't be dragged through the courts taking up valuable time for real criminals. If it's that important to the people offended, they have enough money to deal with it themselves, see Vardy and Rooney for more detail. The old ones were better... "His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair".
Tim Westwood... He became one of the best-known names in hip-hop after hosting BBC Radio 1’s first Rap Show in 1994. He left the BBC after 20 years in 2013. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...in-court-charged-with-rape-and-sexual-assault
There was always something a bit off about him. Was never sure how much of it was his ‘Gangsta’ persona that he liked to portray, turns out he was a proper wrong un
Yeah he was a proper ****in cliche with that ham fisted G man persona stuff. But I guess because he helped to promote hip hop so much in the UK it kind of got accepted to a degree In private, rappers must have ripped the piss out the lanky white boy trying to be a gangsta though
Another teenager stabbed, this time in Cheetham , Manchester https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2132693/manchester-police-live-cheetham-incident
Surprisingly, knife crime has actually decreased in the last couple of years (although the long term trend is up) but high profile knife attacks seem like a weekly occurrence at the moment. I think they should teach kids about this stuff in school, the dangers of carrying knifes, and how to defend yourself if you're attacked. I've done some work on secure wards in my time so I know a bit about this stuff and the best way to disarm people with sharp objects, but for 99% of the public, they don't want to be tackling anybody because they'll probably end up getting stabbed, but just learning a few tips on how to defend yourself could save your life. They should also teach kids (and the general public) about how to use torniquets, how to stuff wounds with gauze, how to apply pressure to stop bleeding etc. This would be much better than teaching people how to try and disarm somebody with a knife which usually ends up with somebody getting stabbed.
Hanging people would lessen the need to re-integrate them. More than a year after the brutal gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl, a French court has dramatically reduced the sentence of one of the two teenagers convicted in the attack, citing his “need to prepare for future reintegration.” On Tuesday, the Versailles Court of Appeal retried one of the convicted boys — the only one to challenge his sentence — behind closed doors, ultimately reducing his term from nine to seven years and imposing an educational measure, the French news outlet Le Parisien first reported. “The court took into account the entire case as provided for by law: the facts, their seriousness, but also the personality of the minor and the need to prepare for future reintegration,” the boy’s lawyer, Melody Blanc, said in a statement. The original sentences, handed down in June, gave the two boys — who were 13 years old at the time of the incident — seven and nine years in prison, respectively, after they were convicted on charges of group rape, physical violence, and death threats aggravated by antisemitic hatred. The third boy involved in the attack, the girl’s ex-boyfriend, was accused of threatening her and orchestrating the attack, also motivated by racist prejudice. Because the girl’s ex-boyfriend was under 13 at the time of the attack, he did not face prison and was instead sentenced to five years in an educational facility. The lawyers of the victim, Muriel Ouaknine-Melki and Oudy Bloch, praised “the courage of [their] client” for confronting her attackers and ensuring that two of them were imprisoned. According to police reports from the time, the two French boys cornered the girl on June 15, 2024, inside an empty building in Courbevoie, a northwestern suburb of Paris, questioned her about her Jewish identity, and then physically assaulted and raped her. The assailants who were Muslim also allegedly called the victim a “dirty Jew” and uttered other antisemitic remarks during the brutal gang-rape. Under threat of death, she was forced to perform penetrative and oral sex on two of the boys, while her ex-boyfriend threatened to burn her cheek with a lighter and attempted to make her sit on her handbag, which he had set ablaze. Local reports indicate that part of the assault was recorded, and at least one assailant allegedly demanded 200 euros from the girl to withhold the footage, which was eventually circulated. The ex-boyfriend sent footage of the assault to a boy the girl had gone out with that afternoon, with the message “Look at your chick,” according to law enforcement. After receiving such a message, the boy informed the girl’s family, who found her an hour after the attack. “Before letting her leave, they made her swear on Allah not to say anything and that she should not tell anyone, neither her parents nor the police,” the girl’s mother told Le Parisien at the time. The three-day trial, held behind closed doors, took place in a regional juvenile court in Nanterre, a suburb west of Paris. During the proceedings, the judge explained that the severity of the sentence came “in view of their concerning personality traits and the immense social disturbance.” “There is no doubt that [the victim] would not have been assaulted or raped if she had not been Jewish,” the judge said at the time. The brutal crime sparked outrage throughout France and among the Jewish community, unfolding against the backdrop of a disturbing surge in antisemitism that has gripped the country since the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
