It wasn't planned, he didn't mean it. Seriously, what did he think would happen if he hit a police woman with a sledgehammer!

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Remember the man that hit a policewoman with a sledgehammer breaking her spine?

"Corner was also found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm after striking Sgt Kate Evans twice with a sledgehammer, fracturing her spine. He was cleared of the more serious offence of causing grievous bodily harm with intent."

"Corner had told the court he "would never want to seriously hurt anyone" and he denied using violence against people during the raid was planned."

It wasn't planned, he didn't mean it.

Maybe if Hamad hadn't murdered innocent Israelis, and hid behind their own people, then killed their own people who wanted them to stop, anger levels would be lower @ITMA2000 and @Anyahyacinth

or individuals could not harm each other whoever they are ?

When the IRA attacked London we didn't obliterate Ireland (and I lived through that)

Yes I lived through the IRA attacking Birmingham, but how are these things equivalent?
Israel has war declared on it as soon as it came into being, and has been in a state of war ever since. No peace has been brokered despite Israel's many attempts, Hamas has made it clear that nothing but the obliteration of Israel will do. So, in no way are these histories equivalent.

I think to get GBH with intent they'd have had to be certain he brought the sledgehammer to the factory with the intent of causing injury with it. It's not enough that he intended harm in the moment when he swung it at the police officer, otherwise pretty much all GBH would be 'with intent'.

It's a tricky thing to prove because the others also brought sledgehammers and just used them to cause criminal damage.

At least he got GBH and not ABH - there was a lot of downplaying of the severity of the police officer's injuries.

The flotillas are nothing but a publicity stunt. Plenty of aid is getting into Gaza now. If it was genuinely humanitarian, there would be a flotilla going to Yemen or Sudan.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/13/millions-in-war-ravaged-sudan-surviving-on-one-meal-a-day-say-ngos
But I guess it is not quite as exciting as wearing a keffiyah and sailing off to "Free Palestine"
BTW, I'm not against meaningful political action. Boring things like working to build Palestinian institutions of government to allow them to actually have a state, supporting and strengthening Israeli civil society to protect human rights. Nowhere as exciting as liberating Palestine through attacking a policewoam though, is it?

Clearly you don't know very much. Using hyberbolic and mawkish language like "razing villages and killing men, women and children by the thousands, who were living peacefully in their own homelands, peacefully farming and trying to make a living"
Not saying Israel hasn't done things which are wrong but Palestinians have done some pretty horrific things too and hardly have been pursuing for peace over the years. They haven't just been "living peacefully, peacefully faming and innocently trying to make a living" until evil Israel appeared and killed them by the thousands and razed their villages. This demonization of Israel and beatification of Palestine is actually part of the problem and the reason there is so much hate and anger, placing this conflict as somehow unique and a fight betwen good and evil, innocent victims and Nazi-like perpetrators, with no scope for nuance. That's how you end up with a poor policewoman in the UK being viciously attacked by someone with a sledgehammer in the name of "Freeing Palestine"

I can't believe anyone would defend him at all. Disgraceful

It would be enough that he intended to seriously harm at the point he swung.

Regular GBH can happen when you are reckless but don’t intend to hurt or if, say, you intend to hit someone but expect it just to cause injury amounting to ABH (bruising, swelling, etc. ) which is common in fights without weapons.

I really, really wish we could put some people down. Just remove them from society because they’re valueless.

the worst thing is this guy and his pals all think they were in the right and they are only saving innocent lives and the rest of us are in the wrong. Apparently he is now sorry and come up with some made up excuse but obviously that's because he's realised just how serious the sentencing guidelines are. If he were truly contrite, he'd have pleaded guilty....

He hit an unarmed woman. That’s all. There is no defence for that. If he believed his fellow criminal was being assaulted. Why not attack the person assaulting her? Maybe if they wanted to tell Palestine they could fly out and help rebuild? Funny none of these Pro Palestine knobs do that isn’t it?

Beating up a policewoman in a warehouse just doing her job isn’t really going to change anything through is it.
Sad fuckers.

The Jury had the job, not you! They had the option to go with the more serious “with intent” charge.

I think your anger is directed utterly in the wrong place. He was on trial for a charge that carries a life sentence. The law allows him to mount a defense, and you seem angry both that he is allowed to mount a defense and that he chose to use it.
What the hell do you think a trial is for?

I agree that the attack of the police officer was outrageous, and hope she fully recovers, I understand she is still living with pain.

They had to have a retrial.

How did this help Palestinians?
Did this have any kind of political impact? Will this impress Netanyahu? Palestinian leaders? any world leader?
Is there one less starving child? One less child in need of medical attention? Did they save anyone? Improve the lives of anyone?

No, the opposite. He smashed a woman’s spine! He caused pain, harm and injury.

So was this really to “help” Palestine? Or is this just a excuse?

The fact that some people try to minimise or justify this kind of violence is disgusting.

i think it is difficult to comprehend how he was found guilty of GBH without "intent" to cause serious harm ,because if you hit a woman with a sledge hammer you do intent to cause serious harm surely.
The lesser charge of GBH has much lower sentencing guidelines ?community service,suspended sentence to 4 yrs 6 months(also time on remand taken off) rather than up to life imprisonment for GH with intent. The judges sentencing remarks will be interesting.
Often when we find ourselves outraged at a sentence and we look at the offence the person is found guilty of and the judges sentencing remarks ,it becomes clear we aren't outraged at the sentence rather the verdict ie: the offence that the person is found guilty/nont guilty of.

Exactly this. He wasn't helping anyone, he was destructive and violent. When "protest" takes this turn, it's less about the cause, more about the ego and entitlement of those involved.

I hope he gets a lengthy sentence. He could have killed the police officer or caused paralysis. These twits are so bloody self rituous that they think they can do anything they want. They are sodding hooligans.

I hope that he has a seriously unpleasant time in prison

These kind of people give bad name to whatever they touch: climate protestors, Gaza, whatever - all of it now a byword for domestic terrorism and fucking middle class nutcases with too much time on their hands.

Exactly. The self righteous with plenty of time and money. They help no-one.

YANBU, the absolute bastard knew what he was doing.

I did think this thread was going on for too long with out all of the sympathisers for these violent shits!
“oh but they’re freedom fighters!”
”they have a cause!!”
what absolute nonsense!!