The Reform UK leader has taken aim at judges for giving Epping rioters longer sentences than a migrant sex offender.
Nigel Farage has blasted the “two-tier justice” as a rioter was sentenced to two years and four months, whilst an “illegal migrant” who sexually assaulted a 14-year girl and a woman got just “one year.”
Farage told GB News, “One of them has been jailed for two years and four months, one for two years and two months, and one for one year and ten months.
But then what about the illegal immigrant who is now claiming asylum and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl? What did he get? One year. One year?”
He added, “This is two-tier justice, and it’s a consequence of all the changes taking place in our system.”
Political commentator Jo Phillip said, “the prisons arse in crisis” and added that the men had pleaded guilty to attacking police officers during the riots and their offences are “very, very serious.
Phillips added, “You can see it in every local paper around the country, every day of the week. People appear in court and are spared jail despite having 3,000 convictions and goodness knows what else.
And people throw their hands up but as we know, we’ve discussed it often, the prisons are in crisis.
The fact that these three men attacked police officers is very, very serious. And again, they pleaded guilty.”
The Reform leader replied, “I’m not saying it’s not serious. I’m saying that, for a fair-minded observer, somebody who turns up at a protest and it gets out of control and they behave badly yes, that’s wrong but how do they get a sentence two and a half times longer?
“Because they were wanting to take the law into their own hands? I don’t buy that. I’m sorry, Jo, I just don’t buy that.”
Martin Peagram, 33, of Barfields, Loughton, was captured on video kicking a police carrier door and throwing an object at another carrier.
Dean Smith, 51, of Madells, Epping, and Stuart Williams, 26, of Duck Lane, Thornwood, had been seen to be behaving aggressively and violently, including towards police officers.
William said that he was protesting to “protect our kids” which is why he was involved.
Smith was given one year and ten months, Peagram two years and two months, and Williams two years and four months.
They admitted their offences at an earlier hearing and were sentenced to immediate custody today at Chelmsford Crown Court.
They were arrested outside the Bell Hotel in Epping after an Ethiopian illegal migrant Hadush Kebatu who lived at the hotel sexually assaulted a 14-year girl and a woman, he was sentenced to a measly 12 months for an offence which is far more serious than violent disorder.
Kebatu had arrived on a small boat days before he sexually assaulted the young girl and woman.
