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5 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
#Colston4 cleared of damaging statue.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
It would have been very surprising had they been convicted, as I wrote at the time.
barristerblogger.com/2020/06/08/the…
This would appear to be the legal justification for the acquittal.
Oddly enough, it would not have ben a defence available had the charge been "damaging a listed building." But I doubt that would have made the slightest difference. It was always unlikely that a Bristol jury would convict.

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The jury had at least 3 separate legal routes to finding the defendants not guilty. The verdict was absolutely not an "assault on the rule of law."
1. A defence of honest (not necessarily reasonable) belief that the owners of the statue would have consented. S. 5 (2) (a) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971.
2. The use of reasonable force to prevent the crime of an indecent public display.
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Remorseless tinkering with the law, always with a view to filling up these warehouses of human misery at vast expense to the rest of us.
Nowhere else in Western Europe feels the need to imprison so many of its citizens. The Netherlands, a country very similar to Britain, has been emptying its prisons and its crime rate has plummeted.
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HT @jonnielovely for the appeal against sentence, which concluded yesterday. The criteria for a rare "common law life sentence" were not made out, largely because the offences of perverting justice though extremely serious, were not violent.
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The astonishingly brave Saif-ul-malook is again representing alleged blasphemers in the Pakistan Supreme Court. They have been on death row since 2014.
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