The Trial of Jeremy Bedford-Turner, May 2018

Originally uploaded in May 2018, just after the trial itself.

On Monday 14th May, 2018, at Southwark Crown Court, London, Jeremy Bedford-Turner was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment, six to be in custody, the rest to be served under licence. Better known as Jez Turner, Chairman and organiser of The London Forum, he was convicted of 'Incitement to Racial Hatred' under Britain's increasingly contentious race hate laws.

He was pursued for nearly three years by a charity calling itself The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) who were determined to make an example of him after he staged an Anti-Shomrim protest near Whitehall in July 2015. The Shomrim are a type of private police force, or vigilante group, formed for the protection of London's Jewish residents. They use cars that look like police vehicles, and its volunteers look like uniformed police officers. Mr Turner asked why no other racially-exclusive group is allowed to form its own private protection force, and behave like an official branch of the police.

This legitimately-organised protest met with no charge of criminality from the Metropolitan police, but the CAA threatened the Crown Prosecution Service with a judicial review unless it agreed to prosecute Mr Turner. This video briefly describes how Britain's judiciary, supposedly independent, can bow to pressure and influence from a racially-exclusive group determined to bend the law to its own purpose. It gives a disturbing insight into how laws supposedly for the common good can be manipulated by certain determined pressure groups.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogzYKzH3Kts