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!

[HeyHoHenryHippy]

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.

Again you've stated "spinal cord"

No answer then @Anyahyacinth ?

Any concern at all for the policewoman or all concern just for the gentle lamb (AKA cowardly scrote, found guilty of GBH without intent). Just whataboutery, minimising and deflection?

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/filton6-retrial/

I read 5 of the 6 of the defendants had barristers making closing speeches

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2xekkye04o

Have a read.

In his closing speech at Woolwich Crown Court, Tom Wainwright, defending, also described Corner as "an academic, an Oxford graduate, a mathematician, a linguist and a philosopher

Direct from the story linked above

Ah, verifiable sources, eh? Here you go!

For those curious about the KC being charged with contempt of court, here is the background to that story.

I have read it

You have completely changed your comment from NONE to 5 out of 6" . He clearly had a defence lawyer making a closing speech so comment was incorrect.

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I read 5 of the 6 of the defendants had barristers making closing speeches

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I read none of the defendants had barristers making closing speeches"

Edits can be read you know!

Didn't understand it though 😕 he had a lawyer make a closing speech about him.

@Anyahyacinth
Any concerns at all for the policewoman? Anything?

But no ‘outrage front and centre’ when the Iranian theocracy murdered tens of thousands of Iranian citizens over the course of a week or two…

From Leona, one of the defendants closing statements:

"The prosecution’s whole case against us has been quite disingenuous and contradictory. The prosecutor told you yesterday that their case has just been all about damage, and it doesn’t matter who we are or why we did what we did. But many parts of the evidence that they presented weren’t about damage at all. They were about trying to discredit us as people. We spent about a day going through the sequence of events, though it felt like much longer to all of us, but how much of it was actually relevant to the issue of damage? Why did you need to know that I may have been hungover after a party? Did the homeopathy messages from my mum help you work out whether we damaged anything? And of course the video of Fatema Zainab and Lottie laughing, when they had no idea of what had just happened to Sergeant Evans. Was that there to help you work out whether we damaged anything? Obviously not. It was there to convince you that we’re bad people.

While these moments have been quietly drip-fed through the case, on the surface the prosecutor accepts that we’re people of good character. The most disingenuous part of the prosecution case has been the allegations of me intimidating security guards and resisting arrest. I am not charged with threatening anyone or resisting arrest. So if the prosecution were really so sure of their case, then they would say it, and prosecute me.

The first thing that you might have noticed about the prosecution case is that they didn’t call a single security guard to give evidence. The prosecutor asked you to see things from Volante’s perspective [described in evidence as the most violent of the Elbit security guards], and you could have. She chose not to call him or any security guard to actually give evidence, because they know that they were the ones intimidating us. And if that wasn’t true, they would have called them to the stand.And I think that brings me to the CCTV. Everything that we’ve heard about the CCTV system came second-hand from PC Sarah Grant. Once again, the prosecution did not want to put an Elbit Systems employee in front of you to answer for themselves. They know that the explanation of why there is missing footage doesn’t make sense. The low frame rate cannot explain the missing footage. You’ve seen it. We spent way longer than a minute in that alcove. No matter how low the frame rate was, it’s impossible that nobody was pictured on that camera, where Volante was being incredibly violent. Coincidentally, we don’t have any body-worn footage from the alcove either. We also don’t have CCTV of the area where Luke [another Elbit guard] had Lottie screaming on the floor, or body-worn. Or when Mr. Volante hit Jordan in the neck with a sledgehammer – you only saw that because it’s captured on police body-worn.

PC Phoebe Webber accepted that there were CCTV cameras that covered all of these areas, and we know that security all had body-worn cameras. Sarah Grant accepted that someone would have to set the frame rates, but of course, Witness Alpha [described as a senior Elbit employee whose identity has been withheld from defence lawyers] , who hasn’t been here at all, couldn’t remember the password to access the settings. Could anyone really believe that a multi-million pound weapons and technology company that specializes in surveillance drones didn’t have a CCTV system that worked?"

The case is so much bigger than they way you wish to present it...so much so their defence barristers are being prosecuted into silence...a KC no less

The jury would not convict first try ..so they shuffled the deck

As mentioned at the top, Sam Corner retained his legal representative, Tom Wainwright [Garden Court Chambers], and this was Mr Wainwright’s closing speech on his behalf:

"There is no dispute, as Ms Heer said in Closing, that on 6th August 2024 PS Evans was doing her job as a public servant. There is no dispute that she did not deserve to be injured. Of course you will feel sympathy for her, I’m sure everyone in this courtroom does"

"Every piece of evidence you have heard, every step along the path that lead him to be on that factory floor is consistent with that explanation. None of it is consistent with the prosecution explanation, such as it is, which appears to be that Sam Corner – a lifelong pacifist who had never committed an offence in his life – got frustrated and made a deliberate decision to injure a police officer for no reason."
"You have agreed facts about the effects of PAVA spray. It’s a highly effective incapacitant. It causes temporary blindness, eyes to close and tears to run. It causes severe pain and nausea. I don’t make any criticism of PC Buxton for deploying his PAVA spray, didn’t explore with him the reasons for doing so or his perception of whether it was necessary, as it’s not about that, its simply the fact that it happened which is so important in understanding what took place afterwards. There can be no doubt that this was the effect it was having on Sam Corner from hereon in. You can see it on the footage, groaning, rubbing his eyes. He told you about the all-consuming pain. Trying to force his eyes open. And so when you view events through his eyes from now on, that vision is blurred, he is confused, disorientated.

An autistic young man, in an unfamiliar place and an unfamiliar scenario. Alarms going off. Smoke in the air. PAVA in his eyes. You may remember the evidence that was read from PC Neale who arrested Charlotte Head some time later. They said that when they started to caution her they had to stop because even then due to the alarm, the smoke and the residue of the PAVA on Ms Head, they became so disorientated that they couldn’t continue. So imagine what it was like twenty minutes earlier.

And in those circumstances, having just seen Mr Volante strike Jordan Devlin, Sam Corner turns away, and when he turns back, through blurred eyes, he sees a similar looking figure in black grappling with Jordan Devlin. Did he think it was still Mr Volante? Possibly."

None of security guards who hit with hammer and sledgehammers were called to give evidence. They wore the same kit as the police (as demonstrated in court) and CCTV has gone "missing"

Once you say that the law doesn’t matter in this case, you cannot say the law matters at all.

That isn’t really to anyone’s advantage, except the bloke with the sledgehammer who doesn’t mind ( maybe wants) to use it on another person.

If you think that there should be no law against breaking into property, damaging it, and attacking anyone who tries to stop you, campaign to change or abolish those laws, for all property, for all violence incurred, I don’t think you will get much support ( although I could be wrong as several countries demonstrate).

So in short Anyahyacinth you have no concerns whatsoever for the policewoman hit with the sledgehammer. Received loud and clear, despite your wall of words attempting to deflect from the simple question.

“Threatened with the end of their civilisation”? By that you’re referring to the many thousands of Iranians who were slaughtered by the Islamic regime, right? Including nurses and doctors who helped the injured? Teenagers killed for protesting their oppression by the IRGC?

Strange, because I recall there was very little media coverage of this for weeks, so little that people were calling out msm for their clear bias.

Recollections may vary, I suppose. Or, like you said, selective outrage?

And the people who are against the police, calling out to defund the police etc…I recall a politician in America who was very vocal about defunding the police. And yet, when she was robbed, who do you think she called? Not fucking Ghostbusters!

Hmmm, I've seen pro Palestinian groups attack Iranians.
I dont think you know how much Iranians HATE the pro Palestine cause. They may have some sympathy for Palestinians but they hate that their government has been involved in causing all this chaos.

Oh and it very much is a bandwagon. There are no marches to Free Sudan, no anger at the UAE for funding the genocide, no one is attacking Arabs in the UK for Arabs committing genocide against Africans in Sudan.

Total.and utter hypocrisy. Adding "and Sudan" to Free Palesinte is an afterthought

I know, it really beggars belief how little these ‘human rights’ activists, who apparently care so much about the well being of innocents, have acknowledged the treatment of Iranians over the years. Silence from people like Greta Thunberg and others of her ilk. It’s baffling. And pathetic.

I'll take that as a no then. No concerns for policewoman at all. Nothing from YOU at all, just repeating the mantra of your heroes.

Indeed. No concerns at all. Just waffling statements about her heroes.

What a load of waffle! None of that detracts from the fact that none of the convicted had any business being there. They broke into a facility. As far as I know that's still a crime. They clearly weren't there for a guided tour of a chocolate factory.
I'm sick and tired of these activists thinking they can do anything, plead nuorodivergence and it will get them off the hook. If they had any courage of their convictions, they would accept responsibility, plead guilty and be the martyrs they want to be.

Poor little lamb, were those alarms triggered on breaking in too loud for his ears, so he just had to hit out due to being scared and disorientated. Maybe not break into places armed with sledgehammer ready to cause damage. Perhaps stay at home like law abiding people.

Hopefully the law will punish the scrote for his guilty verdict of GBH without intent, so he might reconsider breaking and entry, damage and attacking another person the next time he fancies a night out with his friends. Maybe find something useful to do instead.

“When he bludgeoned the police officer on the floor with a sledgehammer, he thought he was bludgeoning a security guard” Oh well THAT’S OK THEN

These people, who were wielding sledgehammers and smashing up equipment and causing a million pounds worth of damage seem to be offended that anyone try to stop them from doing it. It was the job of both the security guards and the police to stop them.

But of course our moral heroes, fuelled by self-righteousness breaking into private property and smashing shit up are the goodies of this tale and not the people doing the (probably low-paid) jobs that pay them money to put food on their tables.

How fucking dare they put those security guards and police officers in that position and then cry about how they treated them poorly.

Naturally to these self righteous, paragons of morality, security guards and police officers don't matter. Nothing can get in the way of virtue signalling for 'gaza'. They are so deluded that they actually think they are helping their 'cause'. Plonkers need to get a job and contribute to the society that they live in, or is that too much like hard work and they'd rather just smash things up and hurt people.