bill40
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The jury was unable to give a verdict after hearing all the evidence and deliberating for 20 odd hours (which is long). This should be the end of the matter as any retrial will be at least a year away. IMO this case had no business in a crown court and there are only two reasons it ever got that far. 1. Celebrity nuff said. 2. The charge of coercive control which carries a maximum sentence of 5 years. Every man reading that should be terrified.
The charges: It was a minor drunken domestic altercation that ought to have been settled by magistrates or in the civil courts. No I am not trivialising domestic abuse, it needs to clamped down on but using a celebrity to do so is just pathetic. Had he been found guilty my magistrates he'd have probably been bound over given no previous convictions.
Now to the nub of the matter coercive control (CC). If any of you guys know what it is please write to the MoJ because they've had to put a call out for papers because this law is so badly drafted. CC is by it's current definition impossible to prove and all but impossible to bring against women it's a tool of oppression brought by rank misandrists. Well done the jury I think they reached the correct verdict.
To end on a note of agreement he ought to have been jailed for at least 10 years for his poetry.
The charges: It was a minor drunken domestic altercation that ought to have been settled by magistrates or in the civil courts. No I am not trivialising domestic abuse, it needs to clamped down on but using a celebrity to do so is just pathetic. Had he been found guilty my magistrates he'd have probably been bound over given no previous convictions.
Now to the nub of the matter coercive control (CC). If any of you guys know what it is please write to the MoJ because they've had to put a call out for papers because this law is so badly drafted. CC is by it's current definition impossible to prove and all but impossible to bring against women it's a tool of oppression brought by rank misandrists. Well done the jury I think they reached the correct verdict.
To end on a note of agreement he ought to have been jailed for at least 10 years for his poetry.