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Entirely innocent people, who had said nothing inflammatory or hateful, were caught in the riptide, too. Take Jamie Michael, a former Royal Marine from the Welsh valleys, who was arrested, held in custody for 17 days, sent home on a tag, and all for a Facebook video after Southport in which he called for a public meeting to discuss the threat posed by illegal migration and the need for security at parks and schools to protect children. If he wasn’t one of the few Southport speech criminals who pleaded not guilty, he’d probably still be inside now. In the end, with help from the Free Speech Union, he was acquitted by a jury in just 17 minutes, one for every day he had been in a jail cell. Apparently, his cup of tea hadn’t even had a chance to cool when he and his legal team were rushed back in for the verdict.Â
Tom Slater, Spiked, 29th July 2025.
