If there are politicians or activists with a genuine interest in fixing the problems in investigating and prosecuting sexual offences, there are many criminal justice experts happy to help. I just mention it because we don’t hear from many of you unless it involves defendants of certain races. - ThreadSky

barristersecret.bsky.social • 123 days ago

If there are politicians or activists with a genuine interest in fixing the problems in investigating and prosecuting sexual offences, there are many criminal justice experts happy to help.

I just mention it because we don’t hear from many of you unless it involves defendants of certain races.

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miniratne.bsky.social•123 days ago

Considering the discovery of a Telegram group by a radio investigative team in Germany with 70k global members sharing pictures of victims of sexual assaults, and the fact that it’s still active with no police investigation. This issue needs more legal understanding, action and intervention.

mikeywohl.bsky.social•123 days ago

And ... the fact that the Conservative party is trying to make political capital out of the issue is just cynical. Why didn't the Tories launch a national enquiry?

timb33.bsky.social•123 days ago

There was an independent inquiry in 22. The Jay report.

mikeywohl.bsky.social•123 days ago

Wasn't that in 2014? If that's what you're thinking of, it was restricted to cases in Rotherham - whereas Badenoch is calling for a much wider enquiry. Same point is relevant though: the Tories could have set up an enquiry at any time during their fourteen year tenure.

timb33.bsky.social•123 days ago

You're right. I'm getting my reports mixed up. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4ynzppk80o

mikeywohl.bsky.social•123 days ago

Yup. 2022 was her report on Church safeguarding.

revdjulia.bsky.social•122 days ago

IICSA was far wider than just the church

tallmattuk.bsky.social•123 days ago

what about addressing white collar crime too; there seems to be a perception that money buys "justice", and bent rich people are still good for wealth creation. Fix that and you might have a more equitable society

n1cecup0f7ea.bsky.social•123 days ago

I read somewhere that in 2022 the Tory government refused a request for a public inquiry such as Badenoch is asking for now. Why is it now important, but wasn't back then?

Musk and Trump should concentrate on fixing their own stuff instead of sticking their noses in other people's business maybe

kladly.bsky.social•123 days ago

This is toxic in the 'other place'. Total distortion for political purposes.

skybluedt.bsky.social•123 days ago

Really hoping with Kash at the head of the FBI, we finally get a look at the Jeffery Epstein list.

kaneclements11.bsky.social•123 days ago

Not with Trump on it you won't.

skybluedt.bsky.social•123 days ago

If Trump were on it, we'd know about it already.
That's simple math...

jacg1.bsky.social•123 days ago

Trump is on it. Epstein had multiple phone numbers for Trump, he appears on Epstein’s jet manifests & there’s court papers linking them to assaults on a number of young girls.

He also equivocated on releasing it when directly asked. Odd from someone who can’t keep his mouth shut otherwise

skybluedt.bsky.social•119 days ago

Do you have links to said "papers"? Maybe some some later than July of 2024?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/11/trump-epstein-documents-ted-lieu/

jacg1.bsky.social•119 days ago

I have a link to the Guardian about the Epstein tapes but not sure how I upload it on here 🤔

jacg1.bsky.social•119 days ago

Then there were some older court documents where a young female stated she had been assaulted by Trump multiple times at either Epstein’s home or MAL - can’t recall where- but she dropped the case because of intimidation

jacg1.bsky.social•119 days ago

The documents that I saw were after July 2024, I think. MeidasTouch showed flight manifests & callback messages. Then a journalist released some recordings of Epstein talking about Trump that had been made contemporaneously. That was on 3rd Nov, I think

stu31.bsky.social•123 days ago

Musk seems to be getting more media coverage of his views than that of people with knowledge of the sector.

murmeration.bsky.social•123 days ago

That’s why he overpaid for Twitter.

dirtyoldanduseless.bsky.social•123 days ago

He's not stupid, just bad.

evilaye.bsky.social•123 days ago

That's assuming that it's Elon doing the tweeting & not one of the Russian or Saudi backers using the account.

murmeration.bsky.social•123 days ago

Agreed. But he ain’t smart either. None of his companies has products designed by him

rosimac.bsky.social•123 days ago

I guess you've forgotten that this country is fed up of experts😂😂. Not really funny I know (appalling actually) but this being Blue-sky at not Twitter I couldn't resist!

lhoyano.bsky.social•123 days ago

All too true.

thebigbadme.bsky.social•122 days ago

📌

ivorbolakov.bsky.social•123 days ago

The first problem to be dealt with is public servant immunity, triggered by the holding of an inquiry, a rule created by the HO to protect the reputations of public bodies by allowing 'officials' to get away with it.

Many allowed to resign blemish free

i.e.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lord-fraud-above-law-ex-8445568

cristiv.bsky.social•123 days ago

bring back Axel Foley! (Columbo is away atm) and Vic Mackey - literally there should be further sequels UK based like: Foley in Grimsby, Vic in Blackpool

macsibob.bsky.social•123 days ago

Spot on!

offcentre.bsky.social•123 days ago

I was hoping the current crop of ministers might be paying a bit more attention. As you'll know much better than me, Jess Philips is a longstanding domestic abuse campaigner.

But I guess you're talking more the Tories and Reform.

oldhuman2.bsky.social•123 days ago

Nobody interested in the 95% of gangs as they're white. It's that simple.

thinkitthrough.bsky.social•123 days ago

😁

alexisyor.bsky.social•123 days ago

The thing is there isn't much scope for political opportunism in being serious.

domooo88.bsky.social•123 days ago

Amazing how important something becomes when you're the opposition looking to further an agenda or point score.

Wasn't an inquiry already done during that time anyway?

timb33.bsky.social•123 days ago

"Jay enquiry 2022".

pascalr57.bsky.social•123 days ago

There was an enquiry, it published its findings in 2022, those findings and recommendations were ignored by government.

robwiny.bsky.social•123 days ago

I just can’t see Badenoch surviving until the next election. Even if there hadn’t been an enquiry, the obvious question would be “well, why didn’t you set one up during your 14 years in power?”

wakeylass.bsky.social•123 days ago

Just to be clear...Tory government.

Some may have forgotten that Labour have only been govt for 26 weeks.

pascalr57.bsky.social•123 days ago

2022, yes. Badenoch is asking for a national enquiry on "rape gangs" when it was the government she was part of who ignored the previous one.

kenstephenson.bsky.social•123 days ago

That's because Badenoch is an opportunistic hypocrite. She jumps onto issues her Party did nothing to deal with while in Government now because she is trying to score cheap political points to make her obnoxious Party more popular amongst voters.

jacg1.bsky.social•123 days ago

And because she thinks she’s got to skewer Reform by appearing tough on Asian gangs, like the Rwanda crap.

foggymac.bsky.social•123 days ago

Kudos, SB! Is there anybody OUT there!

chim500.bsky.social•123 days ago

This is appalling . Musk is, maybe clever, definitely rich, but the idea that he has anything to say about an appallingly difficult area of law/ policing needs to be stopped.

jacg1.bsky.social•123 days ago

He’s not clever but he is rich