Sentence for driving while banned after killing six people: 150 hours unpaid work, 12 months supervision and a restriction of liberty order for four months between the hours of 7pm – 7am. https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-bin-lorry-crash-driver-12828178
Sentence for planning to stop traffic in a peaceful protest trying to save the world: four years in prison.
https://theconversation.com/why-courts-favour-cars-not-the-climate-234535
These sentences are the wrong way around, there is something very wrong with the UK.
I partly got the impression for the JSO 4 year terms was decided on their behaviour in court too. So not just for planning to disrupt the motor way but they were also contempt of court.
@zleap @kim_harding they weren’t sentenced for contempt as such, if I’ve understood correctly, but the judge said he was taking their disruption of proceedings into account when passing his outrageous sentences
Yes, that was it,
@Simon318ppm @zleap So they got stiffer sentences because they didn't have professional legal representation? That is not a fair trial, then.
Remember that the previous UK government wanted to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights.
Maybe you are happy to see the UK slide into autocracy, I am not.
@kim_harding @zleap I wasn’t justifying the judge’s decision and certainly not the fascist laws that enabled him, just trying to clarify for someone what I’d understood the claimed “rationale” for the sentences was
@zleap Where did you get that impression from?
Here is some background to what is going on https://theconversation.com/just-stop-oils-harsh-sentences-are-the-logical-outcome-of-britains-authoritarian-turn-against-protest-235148
Also, a UN representative believes may “violate the UK’s obligations under international human rights law”. https://bylinetimes.com/2024/07/18/just-stop-oil-sentencing-m25/