WAS THE SHORT SENTENCE OF DISGRACED LABOUR MP, FIONA ONASANYA, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION?
It used to be regularly claimed that the
Criminal Justice system discriminated against Black and Minority Ethnic
Defendants and imposed heavier sentences on them than they would do for “White”
Defendants. Although the statistics on
the face of it looked disproportionate, most sensible commentators thought the
difference was actually about the level of criminality in the different “ethnic
minority” communities.
That was until the not so bright Labour MP,
David Lammy, made his 35 recommendations to reform the Criminal Justice system to
give a bias in favour of Black and Minority Ethnic Defendants.
Although the Judge’s reasoning has not been
published, it seems likely that the Government’s politically correct adoption
of David Lammy’s recommendations has led to the discrepancy. When the Liberal
Democrat MP and Cabinet Minister, Chris Huhne and his wife were convicted of their
much less serious case of Perverting the Course of Justice than Ms Onasanya’s,
they got more than double the jail time that Ms Onasanya got.
Any reasonable and objective commentator would
have thought that Ms Onasanya would have got a stiffer sentence.
It seems that we now live in a country where
Whites, even if they are not English, like Chris Huhne and his wife, get
stiffer sentences than Black and Minority Ethnic Defendants! Such is the joy of diversity!
Here is a BBC article
about David Lammy’s report >>>
Bias against ethnic minorities
'needs to be tackled' in justice system
Here is the Government’s press release on
David Lammy’s report in which the Notes to Editors should be particularly
instructive saying as follows:-
“In January 2016, the former Prime Minister
David Cameron asked David Lammy to lead a review of the Criminal Justice System
in England and Wales, to investigate evidence of possible bias against black
defendants and other ethnic minorities.
His successor, Theresa May, said on the steps
of Downing Street that: “If you’re black, you’re treated more harshly by the
criminal justice system than if you’re white”.
The Lammy Review was supported by the Ministry
of Justice and a panel of expert advisers. The review considered evidence from
the point of arrest onwards.”
Click here for the original
>>>
Press release: Lammy publishes historic review
Here is a report on an
approach that is being adopted >>>
Prosecutions in
London could be dropped or deferred as ministers respond to David Lammy report
on legal treatment of BAME people
What do you think?
Black preference is simply the visible proxy; tertius gaudens remains in the wings.
ReplyDeleteFor the present, anyway.
Past: see above...
ReplyDeletePresent:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/stansted-15-sentenced-protesters-who-blocked-takeoff-of-deportation-flight-walk-free-from-court-a4059476.html
Future:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/louella-fletchermichie-jurors-shown-image-of-boyfriend-of-holby-city-stars-daughter-allegedly-a4059726.html
Surprise!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6744321/Speeding-fine-lie-MP-FREED.html
Is she now actually out? If so 28 days only inside out of 3 months. Will she be back at HoC, tagged, and voting on Brexit?
Is anyone running a book on the odds for her getting off at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal?
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. Sarah Waite ... convicted in 1619 ... was "Fined at £500, committed to the Fleet and from thence one day to be whipped to Westminster and another from the Fleet to Cheapside and there to be burned in the face with an A. and an F for False Accusation, and from thence to Bridewell, there to remain all her life." - in Thos. Birch's "Court and Times of James the First", i., p. 135.