Bexley council threat over ‘injustice’ video Press Release from Christian Voice – Immediate: 12.20 hrs 20th January 2016 The Head of Children’s Services at a local authority has threatened a journalist over a video claiming her department ‘visited injustice’ on a family in her borough. Jacky Tiotto, Head of Children’s Services at the London Borough of …
Category: Justice
Dec 16 2015
Taunton Evangelist Acquitted
An evangelist convicted in May by a Muslim magistrate of a public order offence for preaching in Taunton has had his conviction overturned. Michael Overd appealed to Taunton Crown Court. A group of us last Friday (11th December 2015) watched as the Crown’s case collapsed like a house of cards. Witness Darren Chalmers told the Court that …
Sep 09 2015
The Day the Sun Stood Still
An astonishing story has appeared on the BBC website about parking officials forging the time on photographs in car parks from Lincoln to Newcastle-under-Lyme. Many supermarket and shopping centre car parks are run by private firms and allow shoppers to park for, say, two hours. Employees at at least two car parks operated by UK …
Apr 30 2015
Aisling Hubert Loses Case
Pro-life activist Aisling Hubert has lost her case against Dr Prabha Sivaraman and must now pay the £25,000 bill to cover the abortionist’s legal fees. A Christian and anti-abortion campaigner, Ms Hubert carried a private prosecution against Dr Sivaraman for performing an abortion based on the foetus’ gender. But last month Dr Sivaraman asked the CPS …
Feb 11 2015
Pardons for Homosexuals
At the end of January 2015, Benedict Cumberbatch and Stephen Fry sent a letter to the Government asking them to pardon 49,000 homosexual men convicted of gross indecency under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Acts 1885. Mr Cumberbatch recently played codebreaker Alan Turing, who was convicted of gross indecency in 1952, and pardonned …
Jul 12 2014
Theresa May Resurrects “Snooper’s Charter”
Theresa May has resurrected plans for a “snooper’s charter” in order to counteract, she says, terrorist threats from British jihadists in Syria. She stated again that she wants to “equip the state with greater surveillance powers—including the ability to access citizens’ email and social media accounts.” May claims that it is vital for security authorities to have …
Feb 06 2014
Roache verdict casts Yewtree in poor light
Coronation Street actor William Roache has been cleared of rape and indecent assault charges by a jury. Mr Roache, 81, of Wilmslow, Cheshire, was found not guilty of two rapes and four indecent assaults after a trial at Preston Crown Court. Five women had claimed he assaulted them when they were aged 16 or under …
Jan 23 2014
Gardener who beat thieves is cleared
A gardening contractor who left one thief with two broken legs and rugby tackled another has been cleared of causing grievous bodily harm. Andrew Woodhouse, 44, from Govilon, Monmouthshire, was woken at about 00:30 GMT in March 2013 by a text message telling him a burglar alarm had gone off at the tyre yard where his …
Jan 14 2014
BBC investigates Social Service child-snatching
The BBC’s flagship current affairs programme has investigated child-snatching by social services. In a landmark edition of Panorama screened last night (13/01/2014) entitled ‘I want my baby back’, a number of cases of horrific injustice were revealed. The programme is available to watch on BBC iPlayer for a year and is required – and sobering – viewing …
Sep 03 2013
German SS Snatch Homeschool Children in Morning Raid
German social services officials have raided the home of a family and abducted their children on the sole grounds that the parents were exercising their right to home-school. The armed raid occurred on the morning of 29 August, just as the Wunderlich family was beginning lessons. The team of 20 SS personnel, police officers and …
May 29 2013
Abortion and the Problem of Personhood
By Robin Phillips Our earlier post, ‘Live-birth Abortions and the Politics of Choice‘ ended by asking why there has been such reluctance among abortion defenders to acknowledge that a child who survives an abortion is a human person of value. Hadley Arkes’ book Natural Rights and the Right to Choose offers some possible answers to …
May 28 2013
Live-Birth Abortions and the Politics of Choice
By Robin Phillips Earlier this month, long-time abortion provider, Kermit Gosnell, was sentenced to life imprisonment on multiple counts of first degree murder and a string of lesser charges. The verdict was issued after it emerged that his Philadelphia based ‘Woman’s Medical Society’ had snipped the spinal cords of hundreds of babies born alive. Gosnell’s …
May 27 2013
Privacy and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom
By Robin Phillips In Hadley Arkes’ book Natural Rights and the Right to Choose, he makes some penetrating observations about American society which apply with equal force to some of the issues Britain is now facing. He writes, In the name of ‘privacy’ and ‘autonomy’, [Americans] have unfolded, since 1965, vast new claims of liberty, …
May 27 2013
Nick Ross Creates Controversy With Rape Comments
In a book being released next week, former Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross debunks some of the most common myths surrounding women and crime. The book, Crime, has already enraged feminists after a publisher’s preview of chapter 12 reveals that Ross believes aggravated rape sometimes happens. At the centre of the controversy is Mr. Ross’ claim …
May 02 2013
Bill Roach, Max Clifford and Jason McCue
What is the link between an actor, a publicist and a builder from Lancashire? Bill Roach has been accused of raping a girl of 15 in 1967. Max Clifford has been charged with 11 counts of indecent assault between 1966 and 1985. Both men are highly public figures and both have vehemently protested their innocence. …
Dec 18 2012
Traviss verdict exposes false accusations
The not guilty verdict in the rape case brought against the late singer Amy Winehouse’s ex-boyfriend illustrates the potential for false accusations in rape cases. Reg Traviss was acquitted last week of two counts of rape. His accuser claimed he had raped her at his home while she was too drunk even to stand, but …
Oct 10 2012
Jeremy Hunt’s abortion view ‘untenable’
Jeremy Hunt’s view that the abortion limit should be halved to 12 weeks is untenable, says the National Director of Christian Voice. The Health Secretary said he believed there is a moral case for cutting the current time limit of 24 weeks. “Everyone looks at the evidence and comes to a view about when they …
Sep 24 2012
Evangelist not guilty in Tesco case
A Christian evangelist has been found not guilty of a public order offence after he handed out leaflets criticising Tesco’s decision to donate £30,000 to the 2012 London Gay Pride parade. Raj Bhachoo, a Christian Voice member, was arrested, kept in a police cell for hours and charged with “threatening, abusive or insulting words or …
Jun 20 2012
Swedish Court Vindicates Johansson Parents
The parental rights of Christer and Annie Johansson will not be terminated, a Swedish district court ruled. Last week’s ruling comes three years after Domenic Johansson was forcibly abducted from his parents by social services minutes before the family’s departure for India. In a press release issued last Thursday, the Alliance Defence Fund commented The …