Watch yourselves in Dewsbury its a jungle out there.
Zoe
Watch yourselves in Dewsbury its a jungle out there.
Zoe
Stay safe peopLE NFSE
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Poor Commie. He rang the pubs and the brewery and whinged and moaned about “fashists” and tried to stop them opening for the EDL in Dewsbury tomorrow. HE FAILED. His failure was cosmic. He hasnt got a clue about public order policing and doesnt know that it is police practice to allocate pubs rather than have two opposing groups all wandering about in small groups. If he REALLY didnt want there to be any trouble, he wouldnt be organising a counter to a perfectly legal demo and trying to wind up local muslims to be his rent a mob. If police ask the pubs to accomodate protesters, then no amount of angry twats calling or emailing will make the pub close. End of story. Keep your eyes peeled for this character as he is likely to be prowling around trying to get photos of people so he can try and identify them for harassment purposes. Another fail. NFSE
Zoe
Respect to Becki and her boyfriend who have been in a crash, rolled their car through the central reservation, got out, dusted themselves off and are now on their way to Dewsbury courtesy of the AA. Go on girl, you’re hardcore!!
Jojo
THE ORGANISER of a planned march of the controversial English Defence League has defended the group’s decision to stage a protest in Bristol.
Mickey Bayliss said the group was committed to a peaceful demonstration against what he claimed was the “Islamification of Bristol”.

Mickey Bayliss
The 48-year-old farmer, from Upton Cheyney, near Bitton, stressed that the group had no intention of marching through St Paul’s and told the Post he had been working closely with the police and the council to ensure a trouble-free protest.
He also dismissed claims that marching on the day of a gay pride festival in the city was a provocative move.
“We were given this day by the council, as initially the march clashed with the harbour festival,” said the Bedminster-born activist.
“The last thing we want to do as an organisation is cause any trouble.
“On the day I think there is going to be a lot of support from both sides – for and against the EDL – but we will work hard to maintain a peaceful demonstration.”
Mr Bayliss said he estimated about 500 of the organisation’s supporters would march on July 14.
He said that any trouble that flared as a result of alcoholism or drugs, or any racist chanting, would be identified and reported to the police.
He said trouble-makers would be arrested and removed from the march.
Mr Bayliss denied accusations that the EDL preached fear and hate, claiming instead that it was a tolerant organisation.
He said: “Unfortunately we are being painted as a racist group, but we are clearly not. In any group you have a rogue element, but most of us just want to protest peacefully.
“We will be marching with gay, transsexual and some Sikh members of the organisation.
“Hopefully people will see us for what we really are.”
Mr Bayliss said the EDL was not targeting Bristol in particular, although he did express concerns about the city.
He said: “There’s been a few incidents involving Islamic centres springing up around the city and also more mosques.
“We are against the extreme Islamist terrorism and Sharia law and people who preach hate and terror.
“We are also against the Islamification of Bristol.”
Mr Bayliss claimed that the EDL itself had been the subject of threats and abuse since announcing the decision to march in Bristol, and said that while delivering leaflets in Kingswood, a concrete slab was dropped though his windscreen.
Bristol Labour Party issued a statement last night backing calls from Muslim community leaders urging people to stay away from the Redcliffe area during the EDL march.
Easton ward city councillor Faruk Choudhury said: “Community leaders are asking Muslim families, especially young people, not to get involved in any kind of counter EDL demonstration on the day.
“We appreciate that it is hard for local Muslim residents to hear the message of hate from the EDL demonstrators. But we are urging everyone to take responsible action.
“The police and the council constantly assure us that they are taking every step to ensure public safety.
Source: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/thing-want-trouble/story-16468113-detail/story.html
Duncan Gardham and Andrew Hough
6:15AM BST 29 Jun 2012
Sources told The Daily Telegraph that the arrests were based on a tip-off after men were seen behaving suspiciously close to the venue in Waltham Abbey, Hertfordshire on Monday.
Hertfordshire police officers began combing the banks after three men were seen in a dinghy on the River Lea.
The two men, aged 18 and 32, were arrested at separate residential addresses in east London, by officers from the Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Command, at 7am on Thursday.
They were detained under the Terrorism Act 2000 on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism and held at a central London police station. Officers were last night searching two addresses in East London.
A friend of the arrested men named the 18-year-old as Jamal ud-Din and said the older man was someone he knew only as “Zakariya.”
Mizanur Rahman, 29, said the arrests “might have had something to do with the fact that they recently went canoeing” on the River Lea, a branch of which runs through the Olympic site in east London.
“It’s just people trying to get into the Olympic spirit,” he said, but he believed the authorities would try “painting it as jihad training.”
Residents living in the Hazlemere marina, near the Olympic canoeing venue, reported a significant police operation, involving up to 30 officers, had been launched after several men were seen behaving suspiciously in a dinghy on Monday night.
It took detectives another two days before dawn raids were carried out in East London.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “We can confirm that inquires were carried out by Hertfordshire police who have been liaising with Met police counter-terrorism command.
“At approximately 07:00 hrs today, Thursday June 28, officers from the counter-terrorism command arrested two men under the Terrorism Act 2000 on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
“The men were arrested at separate residential addresses in east London. Both addresses are currently being searched under the Terrorism Act 2000.”
The arrests come just under a month before the start of the Games, which open in London on July 27.
In one of the biggest vetting operations in 70 years, the backgrounds of half-a-million people have been screened amid concerns the Games remain threatened by terrorism.
Intelligence officials have reported an increase in chatter among extremist groups but have said there was no specific or credible threat targeting the Olympics.
The terror level is currently at substantial, a notch below severe. A substantial threat level indicates that an attack is a strong possibility.
Both MI5 and Scotland Yard have reportedly hundreds of investigations “live”. The main Olympic Park will be protected by the biggest peacetime security operation ever seen in Britain.
The Daily Telegraph has reported that senior security officials have become concerned that other sites around the country could also become targets.
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that a ring of ground-to-air missile launchers could be deployed around London to protect Olympic venues.
The security service is reported to be braced for a potential deluge of information from foreign police forces and intelligence agencies.
In March, the director-general of MI5, Jonathan Evans, took the rare step of briefing the whole Cabinet on the terrorism threat to the UK in the run up to the Olympics.
By Vanessa Cornall, Crime reporter
A MAN who ran up to an 11-year-old girl in Blackburn, pulled down her trousers and sexually assaulted her is being hunted by police.
Detectives are appealing for information after the youngster was attacked at 9pm last night as she waited at a pedestrian crossing.
The incident happened on the corner of Infirmary Street and Bolton Road.
The man then ran away past the Lockside Tavern pub and possibly onto the canal tow path.
DS Mark Saunders said: “This is a serious offence against a young girl in a very public place and we need people’s help to catch the man responsible.
“I’d urge anybody that recognises this man’s description or with any information that could assist with our investigation to come forward.”
The man is described as Asian, in his 30s and around 5ft 7inches tall.
He had dark short shaved hair with a long ‘pointy’ dark full faced beard down past his chin.
He was wearing a blue Adidas short sleeved top, with white signs on the front and back, plain tracksuit bottoms and blue Nike trainers.
Anyone with any information should call Lancashire Police on 101.
After discussions with our London reps, the venue have agreed to cancel. Well done to them!
“The safety of our staff and guests is our absolute priority at all times. After careful consideration and liaison with the local police force we have taken the decision to cancel the booking.”
NFSE
Jojo
The CPS was formed in the 80s as a body, seperate from the police, to oversee prosecutions and make charging decisions. Prior to this the police would arrest, charge and prosecute. The massive amount of high profile stitch ups the police were involved in forced the need for an independent body to take over this role. For a few years they did their job very well. They worked on what was called the 51% rule where if there wasnt a 51% chance of a conviction, case would be dropped. This was saving the courts a lot of time and effort, and sifting out cases where it was obvious the evidence was weak, and police were prosecuting simply because they had it in for the person they’d arrested.
The lefties in the media were NOT happy with this and started a campaign of slating the CPS, calling them the Criminals Protection Society etc and bit by bit, the work they were doing started to be interfered with. The relationship with the police is so close on a day to day basis, that although they are supposed to be two independent bodies, in reality they are hand in glove, and cannot be independent.
According to my lecturer, in the 80s the CPS was seen as a “joke job” which legal professionals sneered at. It was low class, low status and badly paid. Any lawyer with any respect did not want to work there. The starting rate for a caseworker was £10,000 a year, which was poor.
Over the years, it has become riddled with left wingers, and they started to introduce “diversity training” and the like. An ex employee of London CPS told us what happened when they appointed a black woman, who was a member of the “Association of Black Lawyers” (ie a racist) as Diversity Manager.
We get an insight from an email we recieved from an ex employee of the CPS
By JONATHAN PETRE
UPDATED: 12:28, 20 September 2009
A Christian couple have been charged with a criminal offence after taking part in what they regarded as a reasonable discussion about religion with guests at their hotel.
Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang were arrested after a Muslim woman complained to police that she had been offended by their comments.
They have been charged under public order laws with using ‘threatening, abusive or insulting words’ that were ‘religiously aggravated’.
Facing trial: Christian hoteliers Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang believed the religious discussion was reasonable and deny their comments were threatening
The couple, whose trial has been set for December, face a fine of up to £5,000 and a criminal record if they are convicted.
Although the facts are disputed, it is thought that during the conversation the couple were challenged over their Christian beliefs.
It is understood that they suggested that Mohammed, the founder of Islam, was a warlord and that traditional Muslim dress for women was a form of bondage.
They deny, however, that their comments were threatening and argue that they had every right to defend and explain their beliefs.
Scene of ‘offence’: The Bounty House Hotel in Liverpool, where a Muslim guest was upset
Mrs Vogelenzang, 54, who has run the Bounty House Hotel near Aintree racecourse in Liverpool with her husband Ben, 53, for six years, said: ‘Nothing like this has happened to us before. We are completely shocked.’
She added that the episode had damaged their business and they had been forced to lay off staff and run the nine-bedroom hotel by themselves, leaving them exhausted.
Sources said that a number of guests staying at the hotel, which charges £92 a night for a double room, were having breakfast in its restaurant on March 20 when comments were made about religion.
One of those involved was the Muslim woman, who was staying at the hotel while she received treatment at a hospital nearby.
The couple, who are members of the Bootle Christian Fellowship, and their solicitor, David Whiting, said they could not discuss the content of the conversation for legal reasons. But the independent lobby group, the Christian Institute, which has seen both the prosecution and defence legal papers, is supporting their defence.
Mr Whiting, who last year successfully defended street preacher Anthony Rollins in Birmingham, said: ‘There is a dispute as to the facts of the allegations, but Ben and Sharon do not accept they were threatening, abusive or insulting.
‘They are committed Christians and it is the defence’s contention that they have every right to defend their religious beliefs and explain those beliefs to others who do not hold similar views.’
After the incident, the couple voluntarily attended St Anne’s Street police station in Liverpool, where they were interviewed under caution.
In July they were arrested and charged under Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 and Section 31 (1) (c) and (5) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
They appeared briefly at Liverpool Magistrates Court on Friday to hear the date of their trial before magistrates, and were granted bail on the condition that they did not approach any of the witnesses expected to appear.
The use by the police of the Public Order Act to arrest people over offensive comments has dismayed a number of lawyers, who say the legislation was passed to deal with law and order problems in the streets.
Neil Addison, a prominent criminal barrister and expert in religious law, said: ‘The purpose of the Public Order Act is to prevent disorder, but I’m very concerned that the police are using it merely because someone is offended.
‘It should be used where there is violence, yobbish behaviour or gratuitous personal abuse. It should never be used where there has been a personal conversation or debate with views firmly expressed.
‘If someone is in a discussion and they don’t like what they are hearing, they can walk away.’
He added that the police had a legal duty under the Human Rights Act to defend free speech ‘and I think they are forgetting that’.
A number of Church leaders in Liverpool have written to Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, voicing their concerns and pressing for the case to be dropped.
Christian Institute spokesman Mike Judge said ‘important’ issues of religious liberty were at stake.
‘In recent years, we have backed several cases where Christians have suffered unfair treatment because of their faith,’ he said. ‘We have detected a worrying tendency for public bodies to misapply the law in a way that seems to sideline Christianity more than other faiths.’
A spokesman for Merseyside Police said: ‘It would be inappropriate to comment as this is an ongoing case.’
Once again, our corrupt, and frankly deranged Judges have failed to protect the people. A woman is taken off the streets, raped and abused, yet these mental cases, who dont live in the real world, decide the attackers are not dangerous and should be released early. You could not make this up. These Judges need to be the subject of demonstrations and actions to let them know they ARE accountable for the lives they put at risk by repeatedly allowing rapists and paedophiles go free. NFSE
Suzy
Two men who laughed during a horrific ‘gang rape’ of a drunken woman have had their sentences slashed after three senior judges ruled they were not ‘dangerous’.
Rezgar Nouri, 27, of Preston, and Mohammed Ibrahim, 24, of London, were jailed indeterminately after being convicted of assaulting the 24-year-old in Preston last June.
Sitting at the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Hooper, Mr Justice Silber and Mr Justice Hamblen heard how the men ‘came across’ the woman before taking her to a flat where Ibrahim pinned her down while another man raped her.
Three appeal judges ruled there was ‘insufficient evidence’ that Nouri and Ibrahim should be defined as ‘dangerous’
After that, Ibrahim raped her before Nouri ‘grabbed’ her and ‘dragged’ her into a bedroom where he raped her, judges were told.
But today, despite the evidence, they ruled at the Royal Courts of Justice there was ‘insufficient evidence’ that Nouri and Ibrahim should be defined as ‘dangerous’.
By Matt Blake
PUBLISHED: 17:40, 27 June 2012 | UPDATED: 18:47, 27 June 2012
Two men who laughed during a horrific ‘gang rape’ of a drunken woman have had their sentences slashed after three senior judges ruled they were not ‘dangerous’.
Rezgar Nouri, 27, of Preston, and Mohammed Ibrahim, 24, of London, were jailed indeterminately after being convicted of assaulting the 24-year-old in Preston last June.
Sitting at the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Hooper, Mr Justice Silber and Mr Justice Hamblen heard how the men ‘came across’ the woman before taking her to a flat where Ibrahim pinned her down while another man raped her.
Three appeal judges ruled there was ‘insufficient evidence’ that Nouri and Ibrahim should be defined as ‘dangerous’
After that, Ibrahim raped her before Nouri ‘grabbed’ her and ‘dragged’ her into a bedroom where he raped her, judges were told.
But today, despite the evidence, they ruled at the Royal Courts of Justice there was ‘insufficient evidence’ that Nouri and Ibrahim should be defined as ‘dangerous’.
They said Judge Anthony Russell QC had been wrong to decide that ‘imprisonment for public protection’ was necessary and hand down a jail sentence which gave the men no automatic right of release.
They allowed the men’s appeal against the imposition of an indeterminate sentence and instead handed each a 12-year term.
The court earlier heard how the woman had become separated from friends – when she was ‘quite drunk’ – in the early hours after visiting a number of bars and clubs, the court heard.
Ordeal: The woman had become separated from friends – when she was ‘quite drunk’ – in the early hours after visiting a number of bars and clubs in the centre of Preston, Lancs (pictured)
The judges were told that she ‘came across’ Nouri, Ibrahim and a third man in the town centre and went to Nouri’s nearby flat with them.
Her next recollection was of waking up naked with the three men nearby before the horrific ordeal began.
When it was over the woman left the flat before realising that she had left her phone behind. She was allowed back in.
Nouri then pinned her down and raped her again before ‘pushing’ her out of the flat, judges heard.
Judges said the woman was found in a ‘very distressed state’ shortly after she left the flat and police were called.
Mr Justice Hamblen said that before ‘imprisonment for the public protection’ could be imposed, courts had to be satisfied that there was a ‘significant risk’ to the public of serious harm through the ‘commission of further specified offences’.
He added: ‘There was insufficient evidence to justify the finding of dangerousness made and an imprisonment for public protection should not therefore have been imposed.’
Both men admitted rape at Preston Crown Court in November 2011.
Restaurant workers held in visa swoops June 27, 2012
Immigration teams have arrested 13 restaurant workers after a string of raids. The arrests were part of a wider national campaign by the UK Border Agency. Officers descended on the Lahori Badsha restaurant in Cheetham Hill Road, north Manchester, and carried out immigration checks on staff. Three men from Pakistan aged between 20-34 were arrested on suspicion of working in breach of their visa conditions and a 27-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of overstaying his visa. The teams also arrested a 24-year-old Pakistani man during a raid on ANS Convenience Store in Blackcarr Road, Manchester. Officers later visited The Palatine Bar and Sher Akbar restaurant in Palatine Road, south Manchester, and arrested a 32-year-old Pakistani man for allegedly working illegally. He was suspected of being in breach of his visa conditions. Seven men aged between 20- 51 were picked up in a raid at Lahori Shahenshah Bar and Restaurant, also in Palatine Road. All 13 men are now awaiting removal from Britain to Pakistan. A UKBA spokesman said: “Eleven men currently remain in immigration detention pending their removal from the UK whilst the two other men are on immigration bail.” Simon Cahill, Operations Director for the UK Border Agency in the north west, said: “We will not tolerate illegal working, which undercuts wages and can exploit vulnerable workers.”
Read more at: http://menmedia.co.uk/asiannews/news/s/1582057_restaurant-workers-held-in-visa-swoop
25 June 2012
Five immigration offenders have been removed from the UK after they were caught by our officers in raids on South Wales businesses.
On 17 May, an operation targeting illegal working was carried out at Chun Ho, Fforchaman Road, Cwmaman, Aberdare, and a man and a woman from China were arrested.
The 38-year-old man had stayed in the UK illegally after his asylum claim was rejected, while the 21-year-old woman had over-stayed her visa.
They were taken to immigration detention before the woman was removed from the UK on 25 May and the man on 8 June.
Also on 17 May, Jen Chang, Lower High Street, Merthyr, was raided and a Malaysian woman was arrested.
Checks revealed that the 36-year-old, who was working in the takeaway’s kitchen, had over-stayed her visa.
She was detained and removed to her home country on 25 May.
Two immigration offenders caught in a raid on Lilo Grill House and Juice Bar, City Road, Cardiff, on 11 May have also been removed from the UK.
A 19-year-old failed asylum seeker who attempted to flee across a flat roof when officers entered the business was removed to his home country of Afghanistan on 11 June.
A 20-year-old, who was also found to be a failed asylum seeker, was also removed to Afghanistan on 6 June.
Richard Johnson, UK Border Agency said:
‘Our message to people who are in the UK illegally is that they must leave. As these cases make clear, if they refuse to do so we will enforce their removal.
‘We are determined to crack down on offenders and are sending a simple, clear message to people who are here illegally – more raids are planned and you will be caught.’
Anyone with information about suspected immigration abuse can contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 anonymously or complete the Report immigration crime form.
27 June 2012
Thirty-six Indian nationals have been arrested following an operation to crack down on illegal working in Southall early on Tuesday morning (26 June).
Acting on intelligence, and with assistance from the Metropolitan Police, our officers targeted individuals who gather daily in the King Street area looking for casual labour. Officers moved into the area at around 07:30 on Tuesday carrying out immigration checks on individuals to see if they were entitled to live and work in the UK.
Thirty-six Indian males aged between 23 and 56 were arrested for a variety of immigration offences, 16 of whom had overstayed their visas, including several students.
Thirty-four of the 36 arrested are currently in immigration detention awaiting removal from the country. Two have been released on immigration bail.
One of those arrested for immigration offences – a 26-year-old Indian man – is wanted by police on suspicion of money laundering and is now in police custody. A quantity of cash was also seized from his home address.
Harpal Johal, UK Border Agency said:
‘This operation was very successful and shows the fruits of working with other agencies like the Metropolitan Police to tackle the problem of illegal working in Southall.
‘We carry out hundreds of operations like this every year across London, and where we find people who are in the UK illegally we will seek to remove them.
‘Illegal working has a serious impact on communities, undermining legitimate businesses and taking jobs from those who are genuinely allowed to work.’
Employers unsure of the steps they need to take to avoid employing illegal workers can visit thePreventing illegal working section, or they can call the UK Border Agency’s Employers Helpline on 0300 123 4699 .
Anyone with information about suspected immigration abuse can contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 anonymously or complete the Report immigration crime form.
PUBLISHED: 13:40, 27 June 2012 | UPDATED: 16:51, 27 June 2012
A British journalist was brutally sexually assaulted in Cairo’s Tahrir Square as thousands of Egyptians gathered to celebrate the nation’s presidential election results.
Natasha Smith, 21, has detailed how she was violently attacked by a ‘group of animals’ who stripped her naked, scratched and clenched her breasts and ‘forced their fingers inside her’.
She only escaped by donning men’s clothes and a burka and being whisked away to safety by two other men.
Assaulted: Natasha Smith has written about her horrific ordeal in Tahrir Square on her blog


Mixed: Tahrir Square was a scene of celebration, but also of a horror, as Natasha Smith was assaulted
Brutal: Smith was attacked as thousands celebrated the victory of the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate as the new president
Writing on her blog, she said: ‘All I could see was leering faces, more and more faces sneering and jeering as I was tossed around like fresh meat among starving lions.’
The incident occured on Sunday when Egyptians flooded the area celebrating the announcement Mohammed Morsi would be the nation’s first democratically elected leader.
Smith, who will graduate with an MA in International Journalism from University College Falmouth in August, was in Tahrir to film the crowd for a documentary on women’s rights.
But the initial ‘atmosphere of jubilation, excitement, and happiness’, quickly turned against her.
She said: ‘Just as I realised I had reached the end of the bridge, I noticed the crowd became thicker, and decided immediately to turn around to avoid Tahrir Square.
‘My friends and I tried to leave. I tried to put my camera back in my rucksack. But in a split second, everything changed.
Accidental leader: Mohammed Morsi waves to the crowd during a presidential campaign rally

Rammed: Tahrir Square has become a focus point for the Arab Spring
‘Men had been groping me for a while, but suddenly, something shifted. I found myself being dragged from my male friend, groped all over, with increasing force and aggression.
‘I screamed. I could see what was happening and I saw that I was powerless to stop it. I couldn’t believe I had got into this situation.’
The former Weymouth College and University of Nottingham student said she was then stripped naked and assaulted.
Attacked: CBS reporter Lara Logan moments before she was assaulted in February 2011
She wrote: ‘I began to think, ‘maybe this is just it. Maybe this is how I go, how I die. I’ve had a good life. Whether I live or die, this will all be over soon.’
A friend eventually reached her and managed to guide her to a medical tent. Local women helped protect her as she put on the burka and clothes.
She said: ‘The men outside remained thirsty for blood; their prey had been cruelly snatched from their grasp.
‘They peered in, so I had to duck down and hide. They attempted to attack the tent, and those inside began making a barricade out of chairs. They wanted my blood.’
She then escaped by posing as a stranger’s wife and walking out hand-in-hand with the man.
She added: ‘The women told me the attack was motivated by rumours spread by trouble-making thugs that I was a foreign spy.
‘But if that was the cause, it was only really used as a pretext, an excuse, to molest and violate a blonde young Western girl.’
Smith is not the first western woman to be assaulted while working in Egypt. CBS News’ Lara Logan was attacked during the 2011 revolution. She said ‘men in the crowd had raped me with their hands’.
Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy was also assaulted by Egyptian security forces in November.
And Smith has vowed that the abuse would not stop her from exposing the wider issue of sexual assault in the country.
Broken and battered: Mona Tahawy was brutally assaulted last year
She said: ‘I will overcome this and come back stronger and wiser. My documentary will be fuelled by my passion to help make people aware of just how serious this issue is.
‘It’s not just a passing news story that briefly gets people’s attention then is forgotten. This is a consistent trend and it has to stop.
‘Arab women, western women – there are so many sufferers.’
A senior intelligence figure has told BBC London the biggest threat to the Olympics comes from British Muslim extremists.
The security services are said to be especially concerned because the Games will take place duringthe Holy month of Ramadan.
Noman Benotman, of the Qulliam Foundation, former Metropolitan Police commander Roy Ramm and Nabil Ahmed of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies react to this possible threat
By JAMES TOZER
UPDATED: 23:30, 30 April 2010
A Muslim protester who daubed a war memorial with graffiti glorifying Osama Bin Laden and proclaiming ‘Islam will dominate the world’ walked free from court after prosecutors ruled his actions were not motivated by religion.
Tohseef Shah, 21, could have faced a tougher sentence if the court had accepted that the insults - which included a threat to kill the Prime Minister - were inspired by religious hatred.
But - citing a loophole in the law - the Crown Prosecution Service chose not to charge him with that offence and he escaped with only a two-year conditional discharge and an order to pay the council £500 compensation after admitting causing criminal damage.
Yesterday the decision was attacked by politicians and veterans who were shocked by the desecration of the memorial in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.
Islamic message: Tohseef Shah’s graffiti ‘Islam will dominate the world’ was not religiously motivated, according to the Crown Prosecution ServiceConservative MP Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Parliamentary Counter Terrorism sub-committee, said: ‘This is an outrage against our war dead.’
Shah sprayed the words ‘Islam will dominate the world - Osama
is on his way’ and ‘Kill Gordon Brown‘ on the plinth of the memorial in December.
He was arrested after his DNA was found on the discarded spray-can but refused to give an explanation for his actions or show any remorse, a court heard.
A file was sent to lawyers at the Counter Terrorism Division of the CPS in London to see if there was a racially or religiously motivated connotation.
However when Shah appeared before magistrates this week, prosecutor Andrew Bodger said: ‘It was decided there was not enough evidence to prove this, and they decided it was politically motivated.’
Unrepentant: the court heard that Mr Shah had shown ‘no remorse’Defending, Mumtaz Chaudry said Shah did not hold extremist views. ‘This is nothing to do with his religious beliefs, his family’s beliefs or his cultural beliefs,’ he said. ‘He is just an ordinary guy.
‘He is remorseful, but at the time of his interview he was simply answering questions and didn’t realise that was the right time to show remorse.’
Local veterans reacted with horror last night. Roy Whenman, 78, who fought in the Korean War, said: ‘If what he wrote on the memorial wasn’t evidence of racial or religious hatred then what is?
‘The memorial commemorates people of my generation who died for our freedom as well as those fighting in wars today.
‘It’s diabolical that someone could deface it in this way.’
Community leaders among Burton- upon-Trent’s 4,000-strong Muslim population also slammed Shah’s actions.
Khadim Thathall, a former president of a mosque in the town, said: ‘This young man has clearly been radicalised by groups which are looking to cause trouble and it’s a pity that the court hasn’t been able to dealwith him more strictly.’
Shah - believed to be a former student of De Montfort University in Leicester - uses as his Facebook profile photograph a flaming lion’s head superimposed on crossed Kalashnikov rifles.
He lives with his parents in a £200,000 detached house and works at his father’s car spares shop. Last night, he refused to discuss the case.
Instead he appointed Abdullah Ibn Abbas, who described himself as spiritual leader of a group called Road to Jannah, to speak on his behalf.
He said: ‘It really doesn’t concern us how the British people feel about the graffiti he wrote - the real outrage should be about the thousands of Muslims who are being killed and butchered as a result of British foreign policy.’
The CPS said Shah’s offence could not be charged as a hate crime because the law requires that damage must target a particular religious or racial group.
It said: ‘While it was appreciated that what was sprayed on the memorial may have been perceived by some to be part of a racial or religious incident, no racial or religious group can be shown to have been targeted.’
The case comes after a senior judge ruled on Thursday that Christian beliefs had no right to protection by the courts.
Lord Justice Laws told Christian counsellor Gary McFarlane he had no right to appeal after he was sacked for refusing to give sex therapy to a gay couple.
The judge said legal protection for views held purely on religious grounds would be ‘irrational’.
8:57PM BST 09 May 2012
Nine white men are found guilty of grooming young Asian girls, aged between 13 and 15, whom they picked up on the streets of London. The girls were lured with free fish and chips before being raped or pimped as prostitutes. One Asian girl from a children’s home was used for sex by 20 white men in one night. Police insist the crimes were not “racially motivated”.
Imagine if that story were true. Would you really believe that race was not a factor in those hateful crimes? Do you think that, despite conclusive DNA evidence from a girl raped by two men, the police would have hesitated to press charges because the suspects were white and it could make things a bit sensitive in the white community? Would the Crown Prosecution Service have refused to prosecute, allowing the child-sex ring to flourish for three more anguished years?
OK, now let’s try switching the ethnic identities round. Change the fish and chips to kebabs, London to Rochdale, white to Asian and vice versa and you have the case that ended yesterday at Liverpool Crown Court. Nine British Muslim men were jailed for a total of 77 years for rape and trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation. The whole case made for disturbing reading, but somehow it was the tiny, paralysing details that made it real. Like the fact that one of the convicted men, father-of-five Abdul Rauf, was a religious studies teacher at a local mosque. Rauf asked his 15-year-old victim if she had any younger friends, and drove some of the girls to meet other men, who had sex with them despite knowing they were under-age.
You will already have noticed a lot of embarrassed evasiveness about this disgusting case, particularly on the BBC. Turning a blind eye to appalling, illegal practices because “it’s their culture” is what has brought our country to this obscene pass. I have watched it unfolding since I did my teaching practice in 1982 in Southall, west London. I remember being encouraged to “teach the children their own culture” even as I found myself wondering why British Muslim girls couldn’t be taught the enlightened beliefs of the egalitarian land in which they lived.
When it comes to women’s rights, not all cultures are created equal, particularly those whose attitudes are frozen some time in the mid‑14th century. But we weren’t allowed to say that. Actually, we weren’t even allowed to think that. If you inhaled enough toleration of the intolerable, then you were well on your way to the opium of political correctness.
All those years ago in the classroom, it was clear to me how dangerous it would be if we didn’t insist that newcomers signed up to our social norms. What was going to happen if we were nervous of offending them, not the other way around? This week, over Liverpool, the sky was dark not with rain clouds but with chickens coming home to roost.
Rochdale girls who were living in what is imaginatively known as “care” were recruited into sexual factory farming by Muslim men described as “pure evil” by detectives. The 59-year-old ringleader was banned from court for calling the judge a “racist bastard”. His barrister explained that his client “had objected from the start to being tried by an all-white jury. He believes his convictions have nothing to do with justice but result from the faith and race of the defendants.” In other words, a racist who treats poor white girls as sub-human seriously believes it is he who is the victim of racism, when he is called to account for organising the gang-rape of under-age females. To be fair, it takes 40 years of well-intentioned multiculturalism to achieve that kind of moral mess.
The layers of denial run so deep that it’s important to try to be clear where we can. First, it is an insult to Hindus, Sikhs and decent, integrated Muslims to classify those brutes under the catch-all title of “Asian males”. All but one are Pakistani Muslims who come from a patriarchal peasant culture that obviously regards young white British girls as easy meat. Those children were considered fair game for degrading sexual acts on an almost industrial scale. The men took a calculated gamble that no one gave a damn about the girls. And you know the worst thing? They were right.
The number of adolescents “passed around” like a congenial hookah pipe by the gang is believed to be more than 50. There were 631 documented cases of abuse over a five-year period, and many will have been too afraid to tell their story. Some may not even be alive to tell it. We will never know the full extent of their pain.
Nazir Afzal, Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England, who at least had the guts to bring the case to court after social workers and the police turned away for fear of being seen as racist, admitted that “imported cultural baggage” played a role in the crimes. That’s the same baggage that brought quaint customs like forced marriages, honour killing and female genital mutilation to these isles.
Crucially, Mr Afzal says that what defined the convicted men was their attitude to the opposite sex. “They think that women are some lesser beings. The availability of vulnerable young white girls is what has drawn men to them… These girls were on the streets at midnight. It made them easy prey for evil men.”
So the case turns out to be a tale of two cultures. On the one hand, we have white girls, raised in a godless, under-parented, over-sexualised society, who have little respect for themselves or their bodies and – even worse – no adults taking responsibility. On the other, we have a different kind of “respect”, the warped creed of a sub-section of unreconstructed, brutally over-parenting men. Their own daughters and young female relatives must not be violated or they will lose their market value, so why not take out your sexual frustration on the despised native slappers instead? It’s as simple as that.
It’s not just the Pakistani men who considered their prey to be beneath contempt. “I think the attitude of the local authorities for many years was that these chaotic girls were not held in very high regard,” explains Simon Danczuk, the MP for Rochdale, choosing his words carefully. “I don’t know if it’s political correctness, but the attitude was, ‘These are the life choices the girls are making’.”
Life choices? Dear God, they were raped for years. One girl left a letter for the staff at her children’s home saying she was being abused. It was ignored. So the poor kid wrote another. It was only when a teacher spotted that one pupil was pregnant and a suspicious number of Asian-looking men were picking her up at the school gate that the alarm was raised.
I spoke to Mr Danczuk yesterday, and he strenuously disputes claims that this is a one-off case, or even a recent phenomenon. The grooming of white girls by a small sub-section of the Pakistani community was being discussed in Blackburn council 15 years ago. Recently, the MP was outraged when male relatives of the accused in a similar child-sex case came to his constituency surgery to ask for support. “They spoke about white women in an exceptionally derogatory way. I nearly threw them out.”
While the majority of Asian men in Rochdale are “extremely respectful towards women”, Simon Danczuk laughs at the view of Keith Vaz that “this was not a race issue”. One can only marvel at the skill of the optician who continues to supply Mr Vaz, the chairman of the Commons’ home affairs committee, with spectacles of ever-rosier hue.
Mr Vaz warned yesterday that blaming a particular race or religion for grooming young girls for sex “risks opening up a Pandora’s box over race relations”. If he would only take off his goggles for a minute he might spot the National Front supporters strutting their rancid stuff outside the Liverpool courtroom. The intimidation of two Asian barristers to the point where, shockingly, they withdrew from the case suggests that the contents of Pandora’s box are swarming all over the place.
What a relief to hear Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, a moderate Muslim youth group, accusing Pakistani community elders of “burying their heads in the sand” over this poisonous problem. He welcomes police intervention and insists that race is “central to the actions” of the criminals. “They think that white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused without a second thought; it is this sort of behaviour that is bringing shame on our community.”
By now, even the most trusting and generous-minded liberals must have woken up to the fact that our fear of being tarred as racist has allowed ugly practices and outmoded attitudes to flourish, hidden away behind a nervous respect for “difference”. Stymied by political correctness, social workers, carers, police, lawyers and council staff all failed to protect those young Rochdale girls.
They were victims twice over. First, of the despicable men who traded and abused them, and second, of our well-meaning, foolish and deadly desire to avoid the issue of race at any cost. They deserved better.
14 July 2010 Last updated at 21:38
Sarfraz Ibrahim had brought disgrace on the Crown Prosecution Service, the Director of Public Prosecutions said
A senior crown prosecutor who accepted a £20,000 bribe to drop a case has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.
Sarfraz Ibrahim, 51, of Cyncoed, Cardiff, who worked for Gwent CPS, was caught in a police sting.
He was jailed at Swansea Crown Court after previously admitting corruption, perverting the course of justice and misconduct in a publicoffice.
The judge told Ibrahim it was a “great” breach of trust and he was sure he was motivated by personal gain.
The CPS is the body that reviews evidence gathered by police and then decides if cases should go to court.
Ibrahim was arrested last August after being caught in an undercover sting operation carried out by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).
He and an associate were put under surveillance after Soca grew anxious about Ibrahim’s potentially corrupt activities.
An “integrity test” was devised to see whether he and the associate were prepared to act corruptly.
The associate was eventually identified as a man called Saifur Rahman Khan, 37, who lived close to Ibrahim in Cardiff.
Over four months, until their arrest last summer, both men were gradually tested to see whether they were honest.
The alacrity with which you collected your half of the £20,000 bribe tells its own story”
Mr Justice Treacy
A fictional scenario was created which presented them with a chance for Ibrahim to use his position to intervene in a case in exchange for money.
It centred on an assault case which Ibrahim was able to “manoeuvre” in such a way that he was eventually able to mark it “no further action”.
‘Potentially corrosive effect’
Unknown to either man, the case was bogus and specifically created by Soca to test their honesty.
Mr Justice Treacy, passing sentence, told Ibrahim: “You did not just offend the core principles of your profession, but you committed crimes which are universally recognised as serious.
“The breach of trust is great. I am sure that you were motivated by personal gain from the outset.
“I know also that you lied to the police to conceal your guilt. It is clear to me that you were not persuaded or led in any of these offences by anyone else.”
The judge also highlighted the speed with which Ibrahim had collected his share.
“The alacrity with which you collected your half of the £20,000 bribe tells its own story,” he said.
He told Ibrahim that his actions had had a “potentially corrosive effect beyond this case”.
When the guilty pleas were entered last month Ibrahim was immediately dismissed by the CPS.
Speaking after the sentencing, Director of Public Prosecutions, Kier Starmer QC, said the CPS would prosecute all cases of corruption “robustly”.
“This behaviour will not be tolerated in our organisation,” he added.
“The public has the right to expect the highest standards of professional behaviour from CPS employees and I will not tolerate anything less.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south+east+wales-10636116
2:30pm Monday 6th December 2010
A leading human rights expert has called for a change in hate laws after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided not to bring charges over alleged hate crimes against a Morden-based religious group.
Lord Eric Avebury, vice-chairman of the Government’s Parliamentary Human Rights Group, also called for an investigation into why the CPS had only brought one case against incitement to religious hatred since the law came into being four years ago.
In October, the Wimbledon Guardian exclusively revealed evidence of hate speeches, leaflets, and boycotts against members of the Ahmadiyya community, an Islamic minority sect.
Evidence included video footage from a conference at the Tooting Islamic Centre (TIC), in which scholars called for a boycott of Ahmadi-run businesses and urged attendees not to associate with Ahmadis.
Last month, the Crown prosecutor for Wandsworth, Hilary Ryan, said the allegations fell short of being criminally actionable.
Lord Avebury, an 82-year-old Liberal Democrat peer, said the threshold for prosecution was too high.
He said: “I believe the law on incitement to religious hatred has not been effective, partly because the prosecution has to prove not only that the accused did incite, but that he intended to do so
“At any rate, there has been only one case brought since the law was enacted, over a four-year period when incitement was becoming more prevalent.
“The reasons for this inactivity by the CPS need to be investigated.”
A CPS spokesman said: “A CPS London prosecutor gave initial advice that the material submitted could not constitute an offence.
“If the police ask for a full review of the material, the file will be passed to the central casework divisions.
“A full review is always carried out by prosecutors who specialise in racial and religious hatred offences and after careful consideration of a number of cases since this legislation was introduced, there has only been one case that reached the threshold for prosecution.”
A spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association (AMA), which is based at the Bait-ul-Futuh mosque in London Road, said it was seeking independent legal advice before thinking about pursing a judicial review of the claims.
Tooting’s MP Sadiq Khan has arranged for a meeting between senior memebrs of the AMA and TIC on Monday, December 13.
04/12/2006
The Crown Prosecution Service’s Racist and Religious Incident Monitoring report for 2005-2006 shows an increase in prosecutions on the previous year for both types of offences.
Prosecutions for racially aggravated offences rose by 28 per cent with 7,430 defendants, of which the CPS prosecuted 6,123 defendants or 82 per cent. Religiously aggravated cases rose by 26.5 per cent with 43 defendants, of which the CPS prosecuted 41 defendants or 95.3 per cent.
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Ken Macdonald QC said: “Racist and religiously aggravated crimes are particularly nasty because victims are targeted solely because of their identity or beliefs. These crimes don’t just affect individual victims and their families but whole communities.
“The CPS is determined to take a robust view of these cases. Prosecutors will work closely with the police to make sure the strongest evidence is put before the courts to convict offenders.”
The number of defendants pleading guilty has increased by two per cent to 71 per cent in 2005-06, with 16 per cent being found guilty after trial, so that convictions accounted for 87 per cent of the 8,114 charges prosecuted. This is an increase of three per cent on the previous year’s figure.
For the third year, the report carries data on religiously aggravated offences. The overall conviction rate for religiously aggravated offences was 98 per cent, with a significant rise in the number of guilty pleas, from 46.5 per cent last year to 70.5 per cent this year.
A total of 51 religiously aggravated charges were prosecuted, an increase of 18.6 per cent on 2004-05. Nearly 70 per cent of these cases were prosecuted in the magistrates’ courts with religiously aggravated public order offences accounting for almost half the charges.
The actual or perceived religion of the victim was not known in 21 out of 43 cases. In the 22 known cases, 18 victims were identified as Muslim, three as Christian and one as Sikh. The data covers the period following 7 July 2005 London bombings and the number of victims identified as Muslim throughout the whole of last year was 81.8 per cent, a rise of five per cent on the previous year.
Mr Macdonald said: “After the 7 July bombings it was feared that there would be a significant backlash against the Muslim community and that we would see a large rise in religiously aggravated offences.
“The fears of a large rise in offences appear to be unfounded. Although there were more cases in July 2005 than for any other month, the rise did not continue into August and overall in 2005-06 there was an increase of nine cases compared to the previous year.
“From the summary case reports sent to me for religiously aggravated offences, we have noted 12 such cases for the month of July after 7 July and in six of those cases the defendants referred specifically to the London bombings.”
Mr Macdonald said that since January 2006, the CPS has held a series of “Listening, Reassurance and Information” evenings with Muslim communities across the country.
He said: “Part of the purpose of holding these events was to explain how we prosecute cases of racially and religiously aggravated crime and to encourage communities to come forward and report incidents of crime.”