Debbie Hicks, the anti-lockdown activist who is facing a number of attempts to prosecute her for protesting in various ways, was found not guilty earlier today in Cheltenham Magistrates Court. BBC News has more.
A woman who helped to organise a rally during lockdown has been found not guilty of breaching Covid regulations.
Debbie Hicks attended the Freedom Rally in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in November 2020.
The free speech activist was arrested on the day and faced two charges relating to lockdown regulations.
A district judge has found her not guilty and said police were incorrect to act as though there was a blanket ban on protests at the time.
Cheltenham Magistrates Court was told the Freedom Rally took place in Stratford Park on November 7th, two days after the latest round of lockdown regulations had come into effect.
Those regulations banned gatherings of more than two people.
More than 50 people attended the rally and police, who identified Ms. Hicks as an organiser – something she denied – approached her and told her she might be arrested if she did not leave.
Ms Hicks, who said she was not against vaccinations but wanted to take part in the rally to support “freedom to protest”, remained at the scene and was eventually arrested.
PC Tim Burch, from Gloucestershire Police, told the hearing that officers had been briefed that the rally was “not reasonable” because of the lockdown restrictions coming in.
Ms Hicks, of Stratford Road, Stroud, faced two charges; holding or being involved in a gathering of more than 30 people, and participating in a gathering of more than two people.
She said she was exercising her rights under the European Convention of Human Rights articles 10 and 11 – that deal with freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.
“I felt human rights superseded that [lockdown] and it was my right to be there to protest,” she told the court, adding that she was “shocked” by the level of policing on the day.
Clearing her of both charges, District Judge Nicholas Wattam said while the evidence proved she was one of the event organisers, he found the police response to the rally was “not proportionate”.
“I’m concerned that the understanding of police officers on the ground was flawed,” he said, adding that it was not the fault of the police at the event as they were taking their instructions from senior officers.
The judge added that a blanket ban on public gatherings was not in place at the time, and if it had been it would have been a breach of human rights.
Debbie was only able to fight this case because readers of the Daily Sceptic generously contributed to her crowdfunder, meaning she could afford a crack legal team from Murrays Partnership. Wish Debbie luck – she still has four more cases to fight.
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Bloke!
That’s what I thought when I saw the picture somewhere earlier, without knowing what the story was about.
One would be hard pressed to identify the person in that picture as anything other than male.
Absolutely, obviously and definitely a bloke!
Imagine needing the Supreme Court to determine the definition of what a woman is? Yes the de-feminization/de-masculinization of society continues at pace. This is undoubtedly an attack on female sex-based rights and anyone who says otherwise is in denial and not on the right side of justice. I shared this news the other day but this is a different source;
”Judges at the Supreme Court are considering how women are defined in law in a landmark case brought by Scottish campaigners.
It is the culmination of a long-running legal dispute which started with a relatively niche piece of legislation at the Scottish Parliament, but which could have big UK-wide implications.
It will set out exactly how the law is meant to treat trans people, and what it really means to go through the gender recognition process.
And it could have implications for the running of single-sex spaces and services, and how measures aimed at tackling discrimination will operate in future.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgv8v5ge37o
Nice to know that if you pay a fiver for a gender recognition certificate you too can strip search women despite being an actual man with a fetish/perversion/mental health diagnosis;
https://x.com/NotFarLeftAtAll/status/1860359961781354950
Seriously tragic what vulnerable people are doing to themselves because they’ve been captured by the cult. This is neither male nor female, just very, very messed up;
https://x.com/NotFarLeftAtAll/status/1860985617254936900
Bloody hell Mogs that last link needs a viewers discretion warning.
Yes it’s harrowing, what’s happening. I’ve cared for women who’ve had mastectomies due to cancer, some with reconstruction and some without, and I always think how horrified these ladies must be knowing there’s basically a ‘trend’ nowadays of teenage girls and women getting their perfectly healthy breasts removed. All courtesy of this seriously twisted and dangerous gender identity cult though. It’s basically mental illness manifesting as this extreme self-abuse. Well, via medical professionals, anyway. People encouraging and affirming this need locked up.😒
As do the doctors who do the ops.
Primum non nuocere.
Holy jesus.
Things that make you hummm
Is that bloke in the picture supposed to be a woman…?
I mean… are they taking the Mickey?
I bet he’s in full possession of something more than football here.
See the link of him receiving the award below. The worst part for me? All of the women clapping and cheering. As a female I can honestly say that this is the worst betrayal, to be stabbed in the back, essentially, and have our rights as women trampled all over by fellow women. You always expect a degree of flack or hostility from certain men but when the full-on assault is from members of your own sex the betrayal cuts deeper. So women really haven’t got a hope in hell of ever overcoming the direct attacks on us courtesy of the woketards via the trans agenda because, once again, the enemy lies within. What of young girls who are talented at sports and have the potential to progress to a higher level? What will they think seeing this?
To my mind, these women are no better than the German citizens who acted as informers for the Nazis and would snitch on any neighbours they knew were hiding Jews. Literal traitors. I can only hope that there are more of us than them and it continues to be so;
https://x.com/HoodedClaw1974/status/1861439987830407320
BBC being BBC.
(It’s obviously a bloke, a handsome lad, and a bloke)
The man is a Total, Shameless Fraud, grinning with “Duping Delight” like any manipulative psychopath.
MAD T.V. Season 3 (2/2) Eyewitness Report From Ms. Swan (1997)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4EH0RtVlgE
Bit like that Boxer Bloke then !
I have observed how sports people with DSD ( Disorders of Sexual Development ) are never Caucasian. By far and away black, actually. Would be interesting to see the breakdown across ethnicities…
Would it be unfair to suggest that the BBC only exists now to extort money with menaces in order to pay both the untalented politically correct and David Attenborough‘s extraordinarily high airfare bill as he jets around the globe to find examples of why we should all live in 15 minute cities and forego foreign travel so as to save the planet.
He is a man. He is not a woman and never will be. And especially as he is black- high T levels anyway. This communist mental illness has to stop. When are we going ro get our Trump. MEGA – Make Englanf Great Again
Yes, when President Trump blocks msm reporters from the WH daily briefings, it will be one more nail in the coffin for msm, including the guardian
Cheat.
I think this psychologist clarifies this issue: “These men are very likely a new breed of psychopath.
I call them Trans-Type Psychopaths (TTPs).
They have no empathy.
Other people are not ‘real’ to them. They will destroy everything and everyone in their path in order to get their deviant emotional ‘needs’ met.
Don’t be fooled by the ingratiating smiles, the make-up, the hair, the head tilts and the ‘woe is me’ sob stories.
TTPs are more dangerous than Ted Bundy or BTK or the Green River Killer, or any ‘typical’ psychopath.
Although they don’t leave a trail of dead women behind them, these men’s ability to bring about the systematic destruction of women’s rights and safeties makes them far, far more dangerous than even the most prolific serial killer.
We need to reframe our psychological understanding of the modern ‘Transw***n’.
They are not helpless victims of unbearable inner anguish who can only achieve mental respite by being their ‘authentic’ selves.
They are not even simple, self-serving opportunists making hay whilst the sun is shining.
No.
They are stone-cold, manipulative, ruthless psychopaths.
The sole guiding ‘principle’ which governs all of their
actions is self indulgence and personal gratification.
Absolutely nothing else matters.
We pander to them at our deep peril.” https://x.com/Psychgirl211/status/1861352959583387857