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Interesting.

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If you’re a UK citizen, please join me in signing this. Carrying out MGM is of course already an offence under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (as is FGM) but not specifically illegal, so we welcome this petition. FGM is specifically illegal as a result of legislation in the 1980s.

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Our thanks to Gerry for this. He writes:

“Forget about hate speech. Now banter is the crime. If the roles were reversed the man would go to jail. Everybody knows it by now. We’re watching the decline of the justice system, and therefore of democracy itself.” 

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We’ve just published this on the conference website.

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This is getting interesting.

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Our thanks to Lewis for this. A woman getting a suspended sentence, eh? That’s unusual. Of course a man had to be responsible for her crime:

“Representing Mason, Kane Sharpe said The Fire Fighters Charity raises ‘in excess’ of £8m a year to offer ‘context’ to the figure of her theft. He said she was ‘ashamed’ of her ‘terrible mistake’.

Mr Sharpe added that she had been in a ‘toxic and abusive’ 25 year marriage and was at ‘rock bottom’ mentally and financially at the time of the offending.

Bingo was ‘escapism’ that offered her a ‘haven’ from her marriage, the court was told.” 

The end of the piece:

“A compensation order stating she pay back £5,000 was also made, although the court heard she aims to pay back the full amount.”

Let’s get this straight. Her ‘punishment’ for stealing £18,000 was to pay £5,000, netting her a £13,000 profit. But she “aims” to pay back the full amount. Yeah, righto!!!