This is a thread looking at sentences handed down by Judge Christopher Hehir. 🧵
Deliberately crashing a car into the gates of Downing Street and possessing indecent images of children:
suspended sentence
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-669267…
On-duty police officer having sex in a patrol car with a vulnerable woman who he’d offered to drive home after she was ejected from a nightclub:
suspended sentence
impartialreporter.com/news/national/…
Failures contributing to the spread of a fire in which two women died:
£40,000 fine
app.croneri.co.uk/feature-articl…
Charging refugees for legal work despite having been struck off:
£2858 fine
archive.ph/HgVj5#selectio…
Claiming benefits while making money as the creator of Rastamouse:
community service - thanks in part to an intervention by Hehir’s eight year-old daughter
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
Participating in a Zoom call as part of a successful campaign to stop the UK government licensing new oil and gas, thereby saving many lives:
four years in prison
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Let’s think about what the future holds for Christopher Hehir’s daughter and for all young people.
What will he say when she asks him: “Daddy, what did you do?”
What will you say?
There was supposed to be another tweet in this thread about @RogerHallamCS21: 5 years for advocating for civil resistance on a zoom call.
He explains all here.
Echoes of the Chicago 7 trial where the prosecution had to check the extremism of the judge.
If you would like to do something to help address this injustice, please donate to the #WholeTruthFive's Crowdfunder if you can: chuffed.org/project/suppor…
Throwing soup at a painting that was in a protective glass frame: 2 years.
juststopoil.org/2024/09/27/sen…
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