British Justice

[ozneil]

Isnt British Justice wonderful

AN Australian who was jailed after last year disrupting the University Boat Race on the Thames River has been told he must leave the UK despite his British wife about to have a baby.
Trenton Oldfield made headlines after he stopped the 158th Oxford and Cambridge famous boat race by swimming out in front the racing boats in a bizarre protest against elitism and government cuts.
He was found guilty of public nuisance by a court and sentenced to six months jail last year and was released in two but has now been refused leave to remain in the UK with his presence deemed not "conducive to the public good".

Read more: www.news.com.au/world-news/boat-race-protester-trenton-oldfield-kicked-out-of-uk/story-fndir2ev-1226668534259#ixzz2X5Z5BaTC


Yet people who preach against UK and incite violence are not deported.

Interrupting Oxford/Cambridge boat race must be a heinous crime much worse than inciting jihad

[notanimby]

This isn't uk justice, its actually English justice, he was tried, convicted and sentenced under the English legal system. It is wholly separate from the Scots legal system.

There is no such thing as the " British justice" it's either English justice or Scottish justice, not British justice.

[bormes]

Regardless of who has passed this sentence, it is completely over the top, frankly why was he even jailed at all?
Every week at football or rugby matches there is worse happening, why single him out?
Probably because of WHO he was demonstrating about.
It is still the old boy network in England for the wealthy and they do NOT like being shown up for what they are.

[ozneil]

Jun 24, 2013 6:10:48 GMT -1 notanimby said:

This isn't uk justice, its actually English justice, he was tried, convicted and sentenced under the English legal system. It is wholly separate from the Scots legal system.

There is no such thing as the " British justice" it's either English justice or Scottish justice, not British justice.

It is not the judiciary that decides on deportation, its the Home office whose jurisdiction covers both England and Scotland.

[notanimby]

Jun 24, 2013 20:24:17 GMT -1 ozneil said:

Jun 24, 2013 6:10:48 GMT -1 notanimby said:

This isn't uk justice, its actually English justice, he was tried, convicted and sentenced under the English legal system. It is wholly separate from the Scots legal system.

There is no such thing as the " British justice" it's either English justice or Scottish justice, not British justice.

It is not the judiciary that decides on deportation, its the Home office whose jurisdiction covers both England and Scotland.

Er, this can be challenged in Scotland via The Court Of Session.
Even under Engish law it can be challenged too, it is not a decision cast in stone. Far from it.

The Home Office do not have a monopoly on being correct, either in practice, in law or even in the process.

[Deleted]

Well call me cynical............but this boy would have had a fairer hearing in Scotland I BET.

He was basically objecting to upper class toff entitlement shite and good on him I say.

Though if he indeed was an expectant father I for one might question his risk taking behaviour swimming out on the Thames in danger of some Oxbridge undergrad smiting him on the head with an oar and all that..............

But as everyone here's already said there's one rule for anyone who attacks the 'establishment' and that's get em tae.

Is it any FECKING WONDER we sane smart Scots want away?
I think not.

[ozneil]

He is appealing against decision

BTW he went to one of Australia's top private schools and was a rower

[Sir Henry Rawlinson]

Jun 24, 2013 23:21:07 GMT -1 ozneil said:

He is appealing against decision

BTW he went to one of Australia's top private schools and was a rower

If he'd been a better swimmer he could have got away with it.

[ozneil]

Oct 30, 2013 15:08:22 GMT -1 Sir Henry Rawlinson said:

Jun 24, 2013 23:21:07 GMT -1 ozneil said:

He is appealing against decision

BTW he went to one of Australia's top private schools and was a rower

If he'd been a better swimmer he could have got away with it.

No he just wanted a free ticket home.

Airfares are getting bloody expensive