Farmer Saint

No he didn't, this is what he did: Your victim in count 3 was a professional woman at the party of a man you both knew. It was July 2004, and she had seen you on the television and wanted to be introduced to you, as she thought you were funny. You were told there was a woman who wanted to meet you. That was all you needed to feel entitled to grab her breasts as she sat talking to you. In your trial, you said you had never touched a woman sexually without her consent, and that included this woman. In light of the jury’s verdicts, that was one of a series of lies you told. The effect on her had her wandering the streets of London, phoning a friend in the middle of night, tearful and distressed. I accept I need to be cautious in assessing her reaction, as the jury acquitted you of a later attack on the same woman, but something caused her that great upset. In her victim impact statement, which she read to the court this morning, she spoke of being extremely upset and traumatised, feeling vulnerable every time she went out for the evening, and feeling sick on the many occasions she saw you in newspapers or on the television. In terms of the relevant guideline, that offence falls into category 3B. It displayed your casual, arrogant disregard of any woman’s right to say “no” to you. In my view, the degree of upset caused to the victim is significantly above that which would normally follow from a sexual assault in the 3B category, so this is an occasion where I am satisfied it would be contrary to the interests of justice not to go above the prescribed sentencing range. Around the same time, the victim in count 5 was doing her job. You appeared with an entourage of a woman and two or three men. In the trial, the victim gave an account which I accept without reservation. She said: “He said, “aye, aye”, and grabbed me by my face and started to kiss me. He was pushing his body against mine, walking me backwards so my back was against the wall. The three men and a woman were stood there. He was just kissing me, he was very frenzied, no greeting, no time for me to understand what went on. This was a perfect stranger who just grabbed me and ran his hands over my body while I had my back against the wall. “The kiss was hard and sloppy, he kissed me all down my neck, and his hands were, at that same time, all over me. He touched my bum and my breasts, with his other hand just pinning me against the wall with his body pressed up against me, so I was not able to move. It was rough, very, very rough. I was in shock. “The others did nothing. I looked at the woman; I looked at her; she didn’t say anything, nor did the men, they did not move. It was the middle of my working day. There was a point where I somehow managed to put my hand and I pushed him and told him to “f*** off”, quite loud, then he kind of stumbled back and he made like a sound like it was funny, and there was a guy by the door, he started to laugh.” That offence falls into the upper part of category 2B as it was sustained, there was the added humiliation of you assaulting her in front of an audience and the laughter afterwards, and the violence used to pin her to the wall was beyond the force that any sexual assault will involve. Count 7 shows yet again your staggering arrogance, and it shows how your entourage indulged your dreadful behaviour. Towards the end of 2009, you were making an advertisement for a DVD of your work. You were there with two men who were your friends or associates. The victim was a woman, helping produce the advertisement. You got into a bad mood and she was then told by one of the men with you that you would not continue unless she gave you a massage. She was taken aback but felt she had no choice. You then entered the room and placed your face in her lap, positioned so that when you told her to get on with it, she could feel your breath on her vagina. She reluctantly pressed her thumbs into your shoulders, then exclaimed how bony you were, leading your acolytes to laugh (possibly at you rather than her), and you to leap up and start insulting her with childish but sexualised comments about whether she had a “fanny”. Those insults, in front of an audience, said after the assault, amount to an additional humiliation. The whole episode reeks of casual disrespect and your belief that fame meant you could act how you liked, when you liked, unhindered by the rules by which decent people live. Your victim for that offence wrote, in her impact statement, of being left upset, losing her trust in people and not feeling safe in her workplace: That count falls into category 2B of the guidelines, and her words are a reminder that even in crimes which, under the guidelines I have to follow, are not the most serious, the consequences for the victim are profound and lasting. I think you just don't understand how the law works.

What a prick, but far less serious than the sexual assaults that Brand got 18 months for. Don't forget there are also aggravating factors, such as humiliation as it was done in front of an audience.

Did you listen to the sentencing, and what each part of the sentence was for?

So come on, what's your net worth? You're asking other people so I guess you're happy to share that information.

He's like a child - it seems to be very common on this forum for those on the right to act like this.

Ahahahaha, net worth champions. What's your net worth?

It's funny.

I mean, that's not going to work, Nigerians may mostly be black but they're not made of tarmac.

But, but, flying cars are so cool.

This is really interesting, and a good reason to try to pull your ISAs and pensions out of stocks ASAP...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/11/07/millionaires-no-incentive-stay-uk-rugby-league-boss/ Great article outlining the issues we have with rich individuals wanting to use current tax laws as an excuse to move to a 0% tax haven. If they just wanted slightly lower taxes surely they'd move to the US or similar, not Switzerland, Greece and the UAE.

Considering we've created nothing next to nothing I'm not sure the lack of the striker is that much of an issue.

Hence why I put "tend" in there.

For @bpsaint - you want to stop young black men from Africa coming to Europe, then you need to solve global inequality. That is the reason for it, pure and simple.

Why do you think that the poorest countries in the world tend to be the most corrupt?

If as a country they didn't have mass poverty, then of course they wouldn't. Why do you think they come here?

In other news... BBC News - Pound rises to its highest level since the Brexit referendum - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6lykq2qjn2vo?app-referrer=deep-link "Some traders said the UK was being seen in a different light given relative political stability, solid growth and the rapprochement with the European Union. Sterling has responded strongly to Brexit developments and political uncertainty in recent years. Jim O'Neill, an economist and former Treasury minister, said: "I'm not surprised. People were, and to a lesser extent, are, underestimating the improving momentum in the UK."

If they had more funding their working age men wouldn't want to travel thousands of miles to come here for work.

A very odd way to put it. Unfit yes, but why lazy?

What's that mean?

I'm lucky I'm as much as I don't do it for financial gain, so I can play champagne socialist as and when I choose. However, I truly believe in this cause - millions of jobs will be affected.

So, today I have just resigned from my second non-Exec job in 6 months thanks to board recommendations for mass redundancies due to the role of AI within FTSE businesses. As I am advising on IT strategy I cannot support this, so have had to tender my resignation. This is an incredibly serious issue, and it will affect anyone and everyone of working age that is not in a trade. Coordinated Government intervention is needed, otherwise we will see further growth in the welfare state as roles are removed in favour of Agentic AI. Companies need to be limited as to how many roles can be shed in favour of AI.

Course they are - they can't wipe them all out if they don't kill them all.

He's playing better because he's playing with a much better CB. As I've repeatedly said over the last 3 years, THB was the reason our defence has been poor.

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