JUDGE BROWN MOCKS JUSTICE

IT IS SAID THAT if you live long enough nothing surprises you anymore. Then along comes  a British judge to reinvigorate the anger we should all feel when an injustice is committed. The case in point is that of 22-year-old Rhea Page, who, along with her boyfriend, were returning home after a night out in Leicester.

                Rhea was approached by three Somalian women who had been drinking, and was assaulted by them. To a backdrop of racial abuse (‘kill the white slag’), she had clumps of hair ripped from her scalp and was brought to the ground and  punched and kicked. If it had not been for the intervention of her boyfriend and the arrival of the police, things may have been far worse. But even so Rhea suffered much bruising from the attack to her  head, back, legs and arms.
                The three Somalians were later arrested and appeared before judge Robert Brown, who gave each of them a six month suspended sentence. His leniency for an offence that carries a maximum of 5 years imprisonment, was due to the fact that the attackers were not used to alcohol as it is banned by their Islamic faith, and therefore they did not know what they were doing.

                Judge Brown, according to the Daily Mail, also said he accepted the women may have felt they were the victims of unreasonable force from Rhea's partner Lewis Moore, 23, who tried to defend her from the attack -  so Rhea’s partner, Lewis Moore was made to feel the real criminal by the judge.

                Were the three Somalians even charged with a hate crime? Of course not, this is reserved for white racists and does not apply to any other skin tone. The judge, apparently, never even discussed the possibility of such an offence on top of the assault. But because they were disobeying the customs of their faith by drinking in the first place, the judge decided this was, presumably, sufficient punishment.

                Sadly this is not an isolated example of the way our judiciary administers justice. Judge Brown was no eccentric; there have been example after example of Judges’ seeing the criminal as a victim and the real victim as in some way provoking the criminal - as no doubt the judge in this case saw Mr Moore, from his comments during the trial.

                RHEA PAGE NOW SUFFERS flashbacks, and has panic attacks as a consequence of her night out. She has been short changed like hundreds of others, by our justice system. Our judges are, in the main, (if we believe what we read)  like Robert Brown. There are however many judges, thankfully, that administer the law in a way intended by the politicians, who are answerable to the people – a concept, it appears, that a lot of judges find disagreeable.

                The scales of justice have long since been tipped prejudicially toward the criminal, as in Rhea’s case; and left the victim filled with anger at such a rearrangement of justice in our land.

                Our politicians seem powerless in the face of the judges. Whatever law they pass, it is either overruled by Europe or ignored by our judges. Our judges are indeed a law unto themselves, while our politicians who are supposed to be our lawmakers, just sit on sideline shrugging their shoulders and collecting their salaries and expenses.

                Rhea Page was the victim and her assailants the criminals. But her assailants have received the ‘justice’ that was denied to her. This is an Alice in Wonderland fantasy, instead of a respected system of justice. Many, but thankfully not all, of our judges are like Robert Brown and share his liberal interpretation of justice.

                The vast majority of the British people are small ‘c’ conservatives when it comes to crime and the criminal. They wish justice to be administrated on behalf of the victim and in accordance with the wishes of the politicians they elected. They want judges to obey to the letter the laws passed by their still sovereign parliament. If not, then we must consider electing our judges in the same way they do in America.