Norma (Stuckasaurus) Roberts

No, Pat. His “only crime” was not protecting his family. Can we please stop rewriting this man’s documented history every time a court convicts him? Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s record includes: - assault and public-order convictions - drug offences - illegally entering the US using somebody else’s passport - a £160,000 mortgage fraud - repeated contempt of court after breaching an injunction imposed because his allegations against a Syrian schoolboy were found to be untrue and defamatory And now a jury has found him guilty of harassing two journalists causing fear of violence. This case involved hiring private investigators to locate journalists, targeting them and their families online and telling one of them: “I’m coming to get you.” That isn’t “protecting his family”. And spare me the endless “two-tier justice” routine. This is a man who has built a career raging about crime, lawlessness and other people supposedly refusing to respect British values while repeatedly ending up convicted under British law himself. That is the hypocrisy. You scream about law and order until the law is applied to somebody you’ve decided is a hero. Then suddenly the courts, the police, the offences and even the jury verdict are all illegitimate. He was prosecuted. He had a defence. A jury heard the evidence. They convicted him. You can dislike the verdict all you want. You don’t get to rewrite his criminal history into “his only crime was protecting his family”.