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AJ Bird-Cullen 💙 retweeted
On 19 July 2024, I published two posts on my X account in which I made allegations about Mr Mothin Ali being involved in the Harehills riots. I have accepted these were incorrect and I have jointly made a statement in open Court in order to apologise to Mr Ali and correct the record which is below.
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Young Alexander posted this apology late at night so thought I'd help him to get it seen by more people by sharing with all of you
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She was only four when Trump said he would end the war in 24 hours. Just turned six when Musk decided to join Trump on Putin’s side and help the Kremlin killers murder her
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This is Judge David Farrell, QC. In April of 2019, he handed Martyna Ogonowska a life sentence, with a minimum term of 17 years, for stabbing and killing a man who was sexually assaulting her.
In 2012, on the other hand, Judge Farrell handed down sentences of just 40 months to two men who raped an 11 year old schoolgirl because she was “willing,” and “looked fourteen.”
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Can anyone explain to me why Ofwat hasn't revoked South East Water's operating licence?
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I renew my appeal for an end to the ongoing violence against the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank, and I urgently call on the international community to work toward advancing the two-state solution, for a just and lasting peace.
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There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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This beautiful young woman is Vicki Williams, a history teacher from Pembrokeshire, Wales.
On February 5, a 15 year old student walked into her empty classroom and asked her to check his homework.
He then closed the door.
He walked up to her, pulled a knife out of his bag and stabbed her in the head. This was a sustained attack that only stopped when another teacher intervened.
Vicki was rushed to hospital and thankfully survived.
The boy was prosecuted and in court said that Vicki had tried to grab the knife from his bag and he “accidentally assaulted her”.
The prosecution said that he had sought out a lone teacher who he could attack.
Yesterday, he boy was found not guilty attempted murder. He was found guilty of wounding with intent.
He will be sentenced on September 3 but will probably get a few months at a juvenile facility. I doubt that this will change his behaviour.
AJ Bird-Cullen 💙 retweeted
The Justice Department is now 212 days past the deadline to release the complete Epstein files.
Survivors have waited long enough. The public has been misled long enough.
Who is being protected by the continued delay?
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This is MMA fighter Sean McInnes. When Anne Marie Boyle asked him to leave her alone, he punched her in the face so hard that he broke her cheekbone and her eye socket, knocked her unconscious, and left her with a life-altering brain injury.
He was given less than two years behind bars.
It would be a real shame if this post was widely circulated and impacted his career in a negative way.
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Look how they have romanticised this headline. Woman dies days after her partner is found dead.
Only when you read the article does it tell you Zoe Marie Dixon was bludgeoned with a hammer by her partner and it took her 6 days to die in hospital
He ran off and killed himself
AJ Bird-Cullen 💙 retweeted
Six of these ten Highland Councillors voted to allow a taxi driver who raped a passenger to keep his operator’s license — even though senior police officers urged them not to.
Please note that although we’re constantly told it’s women who grease the wheels for rapists, every single councillor who voted in rapist David Brown’s favor is a man. Take a good look at them, Scottish women: these 6 men would put you, alone and unwarned, in a taxi with a man who has already raped at least one passenger.
Brown has been put on the register for life; he raped an 18 year old girl and dumped her outdoors on a sub-zero January night in the Scottish Highlands; but these 6 men - Chris Birt, John Grafton, Ruraidh Stewart, Sean Kennedy, Willy MacKay, and Duncan MacPherson - are more concerned about his finances than they are about the safety of local women.
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THE CARE HOME SCANDAL THAT ONLY GOT SOLVED BECAUSE A JOURNALIST SHOWED UP
Terry Bryan was a nurse at Winterbourne View, a private hospital near Bristol run by a company called Castlebeck.
His job was looking after adults with learning disabilities. Instead he watched staff mock them, restrain them, and torment them for entertainment (!)
So he reported it. To management. To the local safeguarding board. To the Royal College of Nursing. To the Care Quality Commission @CareQualityComm, three separate times.
Four warnings. Zero action.
So Bryan went to @BBCPanorama instead.
A researcher went undercover with a hidden camera and filmed patients being slapped, held down, drenched in cold water and taunted like it was sport.
It aired in 2011 and the whole country watched it live on television, which is apparently the only regulatory mechanism that actually works in this country.
Eleven staff pleaded guilty. Six went to prison. The CQC admitted it should have acted sooner and said sorry. Castlebeck shut the home down.
Then in 2019 Panorama went undercover again, this time at Whorlton Hall, a hospital previously run by the same company. Same abuse. Same regulator. Same excuses.
The place had been visited by officials over a hundred times in the year before it got exposed and somehow nobody noticed a thing until the cameras did.
This is the pattern. The system fails because everybody who was paid to know, knew, and did nothing until a journalist did their job for them.
SOURCES
@BBCPanorama @BBCNews @CareQualityComm and many others
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‘Ruby’ has told Newsnight in an exclusive statement that she is ‘scared for her and her children’s safety’
‘The offender is being released from prison in less than 2 days. There is no team of people in place - despite the government saying there wld be a dedicated team for victims - that has not been done’
‘At the end of the trial we were told they wld all be deported once released, but not one of them has been’
‘Why are we still relying on legislation from over 50 yrs ago…we need these laws to be updated. Laws need it changed, and victims need to be heard’ 👇
The ringleader of a notorious Rochdale grooming gang is due to be released from jail this week and his victims have been told he can’t be deported
I spoke to one of his victims ‘Ruby’ in 2024 - and she told me she was raped 100 times from the age of 12
Here’s Ruby’s interview
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AJ Bird-Cullen 💙 retweeted
The ringleader of a notorious Rochdale grooming gang is due to be released from jail this week and his victims have been told he can’t be deported
I spoke to one of his victims ‘Ruby’ in 2024 - and she told me she was raped 100 times from the age of 12
Here’s Ruby’s interview
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma…
AJ Bird-Cullen 💙 retweeted
Dear @EnvAgency.
In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.
Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.
Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.
So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?
Today marks 50 years since the last severe drought in the UK. We must continue to evolve to meet future water supply challenges.
By working together across the sector, we can strengthen water resilience for the future.
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