Britain’s justice system has been labelled “two-tier” after at least seven different judges who spared paedophiles jail in the past gave harsh prison sentences to anti-immigration protesters.
Demonstrations erupted across the United Kingdom after a Rwandan teenager allegedly stabbed three young girls to death in Southport last month, leading to a draconian response from authorities, hundreds of arrests including for social media posts, and the fast-tracking of sentences.
Some of those dragged before the courts last week did not even participate in the ensuing anti-immigration and two-tier policing protests, including apologetic Maryport man Billy Thompson, 31, who was jailed for 12 weeks for writing a Facebook post with emojis of a non-White person and a gun by district judge John Temperley.
But in 2022 Judge Temperley decided not to jail 26-year-old paedophile Christopher Emmens, even though he was caught possessing child sex abuse material of the worst category, sentencing him to rehabilitation and community service instead, noting that he had “displayed remorse”.
In Sheffield Crown Court, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC sentenced another 18-year-old, Kenzie Roughley, to two years and four months in youth custody for rocking a police CCTV van, attempting to open it and kicking and punching the vehicle near a refugee hotel in Rotherham.
Two years earlier child sex predator Jordan Etsy, 30 was spared jail for grooming a 13-year-old girl and possessing child sex abuse material, with Judge Richardson sentencing him to a three-year-community order.
“The crimes in respect of which you have pleaded guilty would normally attract a sentence of imprisonment of some substance. A custodial sentence is plainly justified in a case of this kind but I make it clear a custodial sentence for you would be crushing and you would suffer comprehensibly in prison,” the judge said at the time.
In Plymouth Crown Court, Judge Robert Linford jailed David McGuire, 45, for two years and two months for spitting at police and Michael Williams, 51, for fighting and kicking another male.
In 2022 the same judge chose not to jail 38-year-old paedophile Matthew Bridger, saying “you have a constructive view of the future” in sentencing him to a community order for possessing child sex abuse material.
In Hull Crown Court, Brandon Kirkwood, 20, and Andrew Stewart, 37, were jailed for two-and-a-half years, and Christopher Douglas, 35, for two years and eight months by Judge Mark Bury.
Kirkwood pushed a line of bins at police outside an asylum seeker hotel, while Douglas, a combat veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan, hurled missiles at police. Stewart also hurled missiles and a large ignited bin. All three pleaded guilty.
But just last month in the same courtroom Judge Bury told bestiality-obsessed paedophile Simon Pritchett, 46, to “get some fresh air” instead of looking at extreme child sex abuse material and animal pornography, and gave him 30 days’ rehabilitation and a five-year sexual harm prevention order.
In Liverpool, Judge Andrew Menary KC last week sentenced retired welder William Nelson Morgan, 69, to two years and eight months for being present at a protest which turned violent and resisting when he was arrested for holding a wooden cosh. He gave John O’Malley, 43, the same sentence for throwing bins at police.
But in 2021 the same judge let homosexual paedophile emergency department nurse John Wadeson, who caught with videos of babies being raped, walk free after hearing he had “many positive aspects of good character”.
In Teesside Crown Court, Judge Francis Laird KC sentenced Charlie Bullock, 21, who had no criminal history, to 18 months’ jail for throwing rocks at police while wearing a balaclava and “kicking out” as officer tried to arrest him.
Just over a week prior in the same courtroom Judge Laird gave a suspended sentence to 34-year-old immigrant paedophile Joao Da Silva, who admitted possessing hundreds of child sex abuse images and videos showing children as young as four visibly distressed while being raped.
In Newcastle Crown Court, Judge Paul Sloan KC jailed Leanne Hodgson, 43, for two-and-a-half years for shouting racist abuse at police, barging into an officer, pushing bins at police and pulling up paving stones.
Judge Sloan in 2015 opted not to jail paedophile Kieran Whitup, 40, for possessing 10,000 indecent images of girls as young as 10 on his computer, due to his previous good character, guilty plea, and physical and mental health problems. Hodgson also pleaded guilty.
Another non-participant, 18-year-old Cameron Armstrong, was charged with rioting and refused bail simply for being present at the scene of a violent disorder in Belfast, despite having no criminal record.
Mr Armstrong’s solicitor argued that his client had only gone to the area to “have a look”, but District Judge Francis Rafferty said “He doesn’t have to throw a petrol bomb or brick to be involved in disorder, if he’s present at disorder”.
Reduxx magazine contributor Pagliacci the Hated, who compiled a thread on the topic on X, labelled the phenomenon “two-tier justice”.
