Flaneur it was a disgraceful sentence to hand out. Plead guilty to violent disorder (poorly advised?) and got 32 months, when the most he should’ve got was 12 months suspended (at the very most) and a stern talking to. The sentencing guidelines have been properly stretched for him. He wasn’t a well man before he went in there.
For reference, one of the lads (Haris Ghaffar) that tried to storm that pub in Birmingham after giving that guy outside a towsing got 20 months for pleading guilty to violent disorder, and him & his mates were bouncing about in a balaclavas and had been naughty beforehand on the streets around the pub.
Another recent sentence was a lad involved in a gang fight in Luton last year where a kid got stabbed to death. Timone Crossman, 18, was found guilty of violent disorder and possession of a bladed article, and was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.
Lynch was a 61 yr old, non violent odd ball, who had a history of attending marches carrying his placard. In all the video I’ve seen of him, he’s holding his hands in a prayer shape and ranting at the police. A couple of times he’s knocked back by riot shields.
Like I’ve said before, this is not about me agreeing with what he’s said, more about it fitting within what I deem to be acceptable boundaries at a protest, comparing it to other sentencing and not believing that it results in 32 months in prison.
There are people that deserve serious prison time for the Rotherham hotel incident, but he wasn’t one of them.
