Nigel Pelham is being charged with 8 counts of “publishing” threatening hateful content designed to incite animosity against Muslims and faces over a year in prison. Authorities apparently now consider posting on your private Facebook page to constitute “publishing”. The charges brought against Pelham are extremely serious and rarely prosecuted as they must be personally evaluated and determined by the Attorney General to officially be ruled hate speech.
On June 16 he was sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court in London to 20 months for each of the eight counts to run concurrently. He also has to pay £100 victim surcharge and has had two hard drives and his tower computer confiscated.
Pelham will be spending over a year in prison for publishing content to his private Facebook page deemed hate speech by the Attorney General.
Sussex Police Hate Crime Sergeant, Peter Allan thinks prosecuting people for hateful rhetoric, be it spoken or published, stated publicly or in private behind closed doors, is long overdue.
Many people see social media as a harmless and sometimes faceless place to air their opinions, however I hope this shows we will not tolerate this type of behaviour and will act when someone reports their concern about what someone is posting.
“I hope the sentence handed down by the court on Friday acts as a deterrent to others and sends a reassuring message to those who may be directly targeted or are more widely affected by people’s use of social media to spread messages of fear and hate.
“I encourage people who witness such content, to report it to the provider of the social media platform, but such reports can also be made to us online.”
Maybe Peter Allan is just trying to ensure that police continue to fund his important job on stalking people’s social media profiles. But, to most people, this speaks to a terrifying imminent future where everything you say or do is being monitored.
Source: Sussex Police
Only the TRUTH will stop them.
Rediculous
Welcome to the$#%&!@*state of libtards.
For 1400 years. Islam has hated the truth to be known. An cowards crawl under rocks afraid it might offend them. F**k them for their whole sick ideology offends a civilized world.
Vote out the lib.lab
Con or you are the cause
RUBBISH WE ARE IN A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY
Well they had better arrest me too then, as I hate everything Islam stands for. They hate us with a ferocity un-equalled anywhere on earth. They take everything from us, our homes, jobs, benefits, rape and murder our children and are the biggest hate crime abusers of them all, yet you arrest a man for speaking his mind. I feel sorry for this Government when the penny finally drops on this sorry lot, as we Brits never forget. We never forget the treachery of anyone, as we remember your face, your name and what you did to appease the biggest load of anti Christian despots the world has ever had the misfortune to be forced to know. I am ashamed of the corrupt, vile and hateful treachery of our Government, and all its divisions, including the Police, and when push comes to shove, they will pay for their crimes against our right to free speech. SHAME on YOU ALL. Free this man and TOMMY ROBINSON!
Democracy is dead. I’m a Catholic and my religion has been ridiculed after the Child Abuse by Catholic Priests and I have to take the shame because of what my Church was doing and is still doing. No Liberal stuck up for us and rightly so. I had to accept the criticism and Muslims have to accept Criticism if bad things happen in their name.
They have quite the scam going. “I can do whatever I want because this book says so, have to dress this way, have to have my church where I want, and can interrupt anyone or anything to do what I believe, and no one is allowed to stop me”. Besides getting into the kill everyone that doesn’t believe angle, these people must have a lot of MONEY from getting their way because politicians and governments LOVE them. And money is the only thing they really love….