Judge Nicholas Rowland, who spared a teenage rape gang from jail, has a documented history of issuing lenient sentences. The Mail has the details:
The judge who spared the teenage traveller rape gang from detention did not jail a sex offender caught with extreme pornography and gave a speeding drug driver who killed a cyclist less than two years in prison.
Judge Nicholas Rowland, who has been heavily criticised over the Hampshire rape trial, gave Daniel Rushton a community order after the convicted sex offender was caught with extreme pornography.
In 2023, Rushton received a suspended sentence after admitting attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child online. He was arrested again after software installed on his mobile phone as part of a sexual harm prevention order flagged three images depicting bestiality.
Judge Rowland last month gave Rushton a 12-month community order for that offence.
In another case, he jailed a drug driver for just 21 months after killing a man.
Kornel Marcinek smashed into Joe Burton from behind in his BMW while high on marijuana and driving at 37mph in a 30mph zone.
Electrician Mr Burton, 33, from Southampton, had been married for three months. …
In 2024, Judge Rowland gave suspended sentences to two thieves who stole £76,000 worth of jewellery from a cruise ship.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: A former boxer who made almost £50,000 dealing drugs has been ordered to pay back just £1, according to the Mail.
Stop Press 2: Also in the Mail, a court has found that a migrant sex predator who attacked lone women avoided deportation for almost a decade thanks to “impermissibly speculative” human rights rulings about what might happen to him if sent back home.
Stop Press 3: And again in the Mail, the Deputy National Chairman of the Police Federation has warned that, under Labour’s new sentencing reforms, police will be reduced to acting as “caretakers in the community for criminals”.
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I wonder what sort of security protects such judges.
Long retired Judge Christopher Compton – Oxford – had a long string of very soft sentences for paedos. One he even allowed to go to live at home. Where he had abused his daughter.
They are sick. Judiciary no longer serves us. Needs a purge,
Yes, things will only get better when judges, immigration lawyers and military veteran-hounding barristers are arrested for Treason Against the British People, tried by jury, and imprisoned for years.
Only when these dudges are personally affected, will they ‘get a grip’.
The ‘soft sentencing’ is the application of the idea that crime is the result of deprivation and ignorance, not wickedness. Hence the rehab orders.
These two 14-year-olds had to be treated as children under sentencing guidelines. But what is a child? Is a person a child solely because they are young in years?
The concept of what is a child is the product of modernity. That is, a child is a person who is separated from the adult world, not because they are solely young in years. This separation was achieved by denying such a person access to work, knowledge of sex, use of tobacco and swear words. That combined latterly with a lengthy period in education.
This modern concept of childhood was threatened by the needs of the industrial revolution for plentiful labour. A person young in years working in the Victorian mines or factories had entered the adult world and had ceased to be a child.
This is the state they would be in prior to modernity. When archaeologists exhume the remains of an early medieval male aged twelve who was buried with a sword, this isn’t a child soldier as would be the case today. Such… Read more »
For the arguments about what constitutes childhood in the pre-modern and modern worlds, see the late Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood.
You wrote of Neil Postman’s claim “That is, a child is a person who is separated from the adult world, not because they are solely young in years. This separation was achieved by denying such a person access to work, knowledge of sex, use of tobacco and swear words. “
This sounds dangerously close to some kind of justification for paedophilia, as the Paedophile Information Exchange notoriously backed by Harriet Harman promoted.
Ah yes, Mrs Dromey whose husband claimed expenses for watching porn. The same Mrs Dromey who gave a seat in the Lords to a persistent blocker of grooming gang enquiries.
Unbelievable! I did not know that.
The ‘soft sentencing’ is the application of the idea that crime is the result of deprivation and ignorance, not wickedness. Hence the rehab orders.
These two 14-year-olds had to be treated as children under sentencing guidelines. But what is a child? Is a person a child solely because they are young in years?
The late Neil Postman argued in his The Disappearance of Childhood that the concept of what is a child is the product of modernity. That is, a child is a person who is separated from the adult world, not because they are solely young in years. This separation was achieved by denying such a person access to work, knowledge of sex, use of tobacco and swear words. That combined latterly with a lengthy period in education.
This modern concept of childhood was threatened by the needs of the industrial revolution for plentiful labour. A person young in years working in the Victorian mines or factories had entered the adult world and had ceased to be a child.
This is the state they would be in prior to modernity. When archaeologists exhume the remains of an early medieval male aged twelve who was buried with a sword,… Read more »
When I first heard about this gang rape of two girls, I wondered whether the gang rapists were “Travellers”, and now this is confirmed. It’s important for people to realize that GANG RAPE WAS ALMOST UNKNOWN IN THE WEST before the Mass Third World Invasion, and these “Traveller” gang rape cases clearly demonstrate that the “Traveller” culture, traditions and morality are NOT Ethnic European, as one would expect, since they originate in India.
They may have the appearance of Ethnic Europeans, but they are essentially HOSTILE to Ethnic Europeans, though it is difficult to understand why, since they have been lavished with welfare benefits and “special rights” to defy British laws in an organized criminal way, such as their military-style dumping of tons of hardcore on green pastures every Bank Holiday weekend, and setting up permanent homes disguised as “caravans. “Travellers” originating in Ireland and Romania demand and are given permanent homes in the British countryside, in addition to “Travelling” rights, and it is their criminal networks who commit the majority of rural crime and attacks on churches.
I have never understood their hostility, nor their culture of bitter hatred for all Non-Travellers, especially since Non-Travellers are completely funding the… Read more »
“I have never understood their hostility, nor their culture of bitter hatred for all Non-Travellers, especially since Non-Travellers are completely funding the Travellers’ lifestyle.”
I don’t think the idea that the response to generosity is gratefulness is true in general.
On the contrary – undeserved handouts result in contempt and a sense of entitlement.
I think it puts the idea in the receiving party’s head that they are owed something.
Did black people ever express gratitude to Britain for outlawing the slave trade and actively stopping save ships…? Nope. Instead all I can see is resentment and demands for “reparations”.
Excellent points! Gratitude is a very delicate thing, isn’t it? If parents lavish too much money and gifts upon their children, for example, the kids become spoilt, responding “in contempt and a sense of entitlement”, exactly as you described.
And yet some people give money and gifts in order to deliberately instil a burdensome sense of obligation in the recipient, as a control mechanism to shackle them forever to the giver, who can end up behaving like a stalker, with a stalker’s false sense of “ownership” of the recipient. Even if the recipient wants to break free, they are bound by the sense of “obligation” to repay the giver, and only once the gifts are repaid can the recipient feel free of the burden of obligation.
The best and most appreciated gifts are infrequent, and often small, with no strings attached.
“I don’t think the idea that the response to generosity is gratefulness is true in general.”
You are right, and why should they? As you say, they are entitled.
Please allow me a bit of history.
Prior to the post-war welfare state, poverty relief was heavily reliant on local, private, and religious philanthropy, and the recipients of alms did show their gratitude. Enter Labour’s preaching that Charity is nothing but another way for the rich to humiliate the poor and remind them to “know their place” (forgetting that most religions encourage charity – Faith Hope & Charity in Christianity, Tzedakah in Judaism, Dana in Buddhism…).
To remove the “stigma” of “charity”, they shifted the “hand-to-mouth” donations (the purest form of philanthropy) into grabbing forcibly people’s money (taxes) and generously giving it to professional scroungers.
it’s getting better. Labour do-gooders then started charities-by-name only, flooding the Companies House website, scoring millions for their CEOs with about 7% of donations reaching the needy (extensive expose by the Telegraph some years ago).
Remember how hostile France’s General de Gaulle was to Britain? Yet we provided him with sanctuary and a home all the while Germany occupied his French home.
Truly an ungrateful whinging sod.
This is why judges need to be accountable to Parliament and sackable by them. This bleeding hearted liberal could of been got rid of a long time ago.
There should also be a statutory minimum sentence for every crime that’s at least 50% of the maximum prison sentence or fine. Presumably it would only need one new Act of Parliament to introduce this rather than having to amend every piece of criminal law.
”accountable to Parliament”. You’re having a giraffe, right?
No, a Parliamentary Enquiry, where said judge is required to answer questions from a cross-party panel of elected MPs.
And Lucy Connolly received a 31 month sentence for a tweet.
Yes. That’s because she wanted to deport ‘the treacherous government and politicians with [the bastards]’.
Instead of getting a decent sentence which would act as a deterrent for other would-be teenage rapists, what this judge has done is provide a deterrent for all rape victims coming forward and reporting their attacks, thereby enabling the perpetrators to reoffend with impunity.
I can’t imagine the courage it took for these victims to come forward and proceed to go through the retraumatizing experience of going through the courts, being cross examined, reliving the harrowing details in front of a courtroom full of strangers and then this is the outcome they’re having to contend with.
The ordeal itself is bad enough but if your attackers can be banged up at least it’s something but these rapists, with their demonstrably disrespectful and unhealthy attitudes towards the opposite sex, are free to reoffend. And I’m very confident they will. The deterrent provided is for entirely the wrong individuals and the judge should be sacked.
As ever, I’m left wondering what sort of upbringing these boys have had and how they view their own female family members. Talk about red flags..their home lives and parents should be under investigation and thoroughly scrutinised because normal, well-balanced teenagers don’t go out and do something… Read more »
From a protected group, so why are surprised!
And what would’ve happened if the victims were from a “protected group”? Which group cancels the other one out? Because, I don’t actually know, but I’m just assuming the girls were white.
But you see how utterly ludicrous that sounds? The judge should be sentencing based on the crime, nothing else whatsoever, and the law should be being applied equally to all. No mitigating factors such as daft labels ( e.g: ADHD), which I’m sure are inaccurate half the time. No leniency shown due to anybody’s ‘protected characteristics’ and what “group” they belong to should never come into it because the accused needs to be held personally responsible as an individual. The ethnicity, sex, religion etc of the victim and accused should be entirely irrelevant. And when it comes to minors committing serious crimes, as long as they’re above the age of criminal responsibility they should be tried as adults, but I’m all for investigating the parents and making sure they take some responsibility for their child’s crimes, too. No way will any of those teenage rapists have a normal, well-balanced home life, and it makes you wonder what sort of behaviour is being mirrored due to a dysfunctional upbringing.… Read more »
No rehab order?
“Deputy National Chairman of the Police Federation has warned that, under Labour’s new sentencing reforms, police will be reduced to acting as “caretakers in the community for criminals”.
That’s all they are now any way.
Or as Peter Hitchens has called them, social workers in uniform.