Thread 1/8- Insp.Warhurst @PoliceScotland blasted in Employment Tribunal said female firearms officers shld be accompanied on duty by males & shared topless photos on WhatsApp Grp, is now a Scottish Police Federation rep providing help 2female colleagues🙈 bbc.com/news/uk-scotla…
2/8- In his 2018 note, Insp Warhurst, warned against sending 2 women on a callout due to “obvious differences in physical capacity…For operational reasons I don’t want to see 2 female officers deployed together when there are sufficient male staff on duty”
3/8 -Insp said “This is based on my experience in firearms & routine policing environment, other than the obvious differences in physical capacity,it makes more sense from a search, balance of testosterone perspective.If you want 2discuss my door is open.”assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/615c5cc7…
4/8 In 2020 the Insp.was made Scottish Police Federation Rep-it’s head Calum Steele said: “Mr Warhurst’s candidature & election was a matter for his colleagues & peers.The outstanding tribunal claims of a retired police officer has no bearing on this” 🙈 google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dail…
5/8- The retired officer Rhona Malone was not supported by the Federation “the impact of the ordeal forced her to seek early retirement on ill-health grounds. Her lawyer said she had endured behaviour “designed to get her to take flight from the firearms unit”
6/8- The hearing was also told one cop in the unit had referred to a colleague's pregnant partner as "a f****** fat bitch". Another was said to have stated "you are going to end up f****** that" when referring to a female officer.
7/8- Its ruling said: "The tribunal accepted in evidence the examples of the "absolute boys club" or "horrific" culture given by the claimant's witnesses." Rhona Malone was vindicated yesterday after fighting years to prove what happened to her- what next @PoliceScotland ?
8/8- A former Dep. Chief constable ‘backed’ the Inspector who prompted an employment tribunal. Tom Wood said Inspector Keith Warhurst had “had a good point” when he said that women should not be deployed together when enough men were on duty”🙈 thetimes.co.uk/article/ex-dep…
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🧵1/21 Crushing defeat for @RishiSunak on Suella & Priti’s cruel flagship policy-Supreme Court rules unanimously UK Govt.’s inhumane policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda ‘UNLAWFUL’- not just ECHR but a no. of international treaties apply-a summary👇
🧵2/21 This Government is not above the rule of international law, as the Supreme Court unanimously dismisses the Home Secretary's appeal & upholds the Court of Appeal's conclusion that the Rwanda policy is unlawful. supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-202…
🧵3/21-This is because there are substantial grounds for believing that asylum seekers would face a real risk of ill-treatment by reason of refoulement to their country of origin if they were removed to Rwanda.
🧵1/8 Canada’s Parliament along with Trudeau & Zelensky gave a standing ovation to Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian because he fought against the Russians in WW2, but he’d served in the Nazi’s Ukrainian 14th Waffen, aka SS Galincha. implicated in the mass murder of Jews & others
🧵2/8 Formed in 1943, SS Galichina was recruited from Galicia region in Ukraine. The unit was armed & trained by the Nazis commanded by German officers. In 1944, the division was visited by SS head Heinrich Himmler, who spoke of the soldiers’ “willingness to slaughter Poles.”
🧵3/8 Three months earlier, SS Galichina subunits perpetrated what is known as the Huta Pieniacka massacre, burning 500 to 1,000 Polish villagers alive. The town was razed to the ground and most of its inhabitants were murdered, including many young children.
1/14 -🧵🪡 on the outrage over Sean Hogg, 21, who raped girl, 13, in park freed from court after judge considered him too young to be jailed & imposed 270 hours community service- but sentence guidelines for young people don’t stop custodial sentences👇lbc.co.uk/news/man-who-r…
3/14🧵-A spokesperson for the Crown Office said: "As with all cases, the Crown will consider the sentence and give consideration to whether it might be unduly lenient."
1/5 🧵Queen not even buried, but Charles appoints disgraced Prince Andrew as Counsellor of State to stand in for him if he’s ill or out of UK- he was friends with rapist sex trafficker Epstein & settled a sexual assault case with £12M of our money -but don’t criticise the 👑?
2/5 Remember in 2021 we were told that Charles opposed Andrew’s return- what happened? I wait to hear what the fervent Royalists have to say about this ‘man’ being a defacto head of state🤴🏻🇬🇧 marieclaire.co.uk/royal-news/pri…
3/5 Andrew’s sister Princess Anne is not allowed because under the Regency Act 1937 male heirs had 1st right to the throne over females – a rule known as male royal primogeniture.
1/13 Put bluntly the most senior Judges in Scotland have delivered @scotgov a devastating indictment on its consultation on Legal Services Regulation Reform- essentially accusing 🏴Govt of interference with the rule of law & an independent judiciary judiciary.scot/home/media-inf…
2/13- “The foundation of our democracy is the rule of law & ..the separation of powers. An independent legal profession & ..judiciary, is central to the operation of the rule of law; the protection of the public from the arbitrary abuse of power by the state depends upon it”
3/13- “It is of grave concern that this consultation fails to recognise suitably the constitutional importance of the Lord President and the Court of Session’s role in regulating the legal profession.”
1/14 -a thread - Three years ago today, the body of a 16-year-old child was found hanging in his cell at Polmont, some 72 hours after he arrived there on remand. His name was #WilliamLindsay 💔
2/14- On the 4 Oct 2018 William was sent to prison by our courts because our criminal justice system could not find a children’s secure unit place & the desperate concerns of his social workers went ignored.
3/14William was in & out of care since the age of 3, he had multiple placements, and resided in secure accommodation, self-harming since the age of 8, considered a high risk of suicide from the age of 13 & had on several occasions attempted to take his own life.