"You can see it in every local paper around the country, every day of the week. People appear in court and are spared jail despite having 3,000 convictions and goodness knows what else. And people throw their hands up but as we know, we've discussed it often, the prisons are in crisis. The fact that these three men attacked police officers is very, very serious. And again, they pleaded guilty."
"I'm not saying it's not serious. I'm saying that, for a fair-minded observer, somebody who turns up at a protest and it gets out of control and they behave badly yes, that's wrong but how do they get a sentence two and a half times longer? "Because they were wanting to take the law into their own hands? I don't buy that. I'm sorry, Jo, I just don't buy that."
Three Epping rioters received sentences of two years and four months, two years and two months, and one year and ten months after pleading guilty to attacking police and damaging police carriers. An illegal migrant claiming asylum who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl and a woman received a one-year sentence. The sentencing disparity has been described as evidence of a two-tier justice system and linked to systemic changes and a crisis in prisons. Commentators emphasized the seriousness of attacking police and noted the guilty pleas in the riot cases. Video footage captured rioters kicking and throwing objects at police carriers.
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