Court Correspondent

This man spent £750 on Dyson hairdryers.

Elsewhere in the courts, the first jury had already convicted Mohammed Fahir Amaaz of three counts of assault, and he is on remand awaiting sentence on 26 June, so there was no ethnic or sectarian politics at play when it was unable to reach a verdict on the actual bodily harm charge against him and Muhammad Amaad. Nor could the second jury, so the case for that must simply have been weaker. Who cares what might have been on television or the Internet?

Both trials were held in Liverpool, which is 77.3 per cent White British, five per cent Other White, a notably low 1.4 per cent White Irish, 0.2 per cent White Roma, and 0.1 per cent White Gypsy or Irish Traveller. A nice, round 80 per cent White. It is wildly unlikely that a blocking minority might have been by provided once by the Pakistani 0.8 per cent of Liverpudlians, or even by a combination of that, the Bangladeshi 0.4 per cent, and the Arab 1.7 per cent. For that to have happened twice on the same indictment would be vanishingly improbable. Where two juries had failed to reach a verdict, a third trial would be for something that carried a maximum sentence rather higher than five years, with an average sentence of one to one and a half years.

That said, last year, when there was literally no evidence against me, and the Police had sacked the investigating officer for his conduct of my case, my barrister told me that what has since been acknowledged to be my baseless record made me unacquittable by a jury that anyway just would not have liked a defendant who dressed well, spoke well, and read books, so I was going to have to go guilty even though the whole thing depended on blog posts that did not exist, purportedly detected by a policeman who had been drummed out. At best, I might have hoped for a hung jury, but my brief had already established with the Prosecutor that the CPS would have sought a retrial. The vendetta against me was that obsessive. I am very, very proud that the right-wing Labourites, liberal Catholics twice a year, considered me more dangerous than almost anyone charged with murder, never mind ABH.

Ah, yes, murder. That same CPS will not be seeking the extradition of Kenneth Law, despite his 79 known victims in the United Kingdom. Were they all in England or Wales? If not, then might an extradition to Scotland or Northern Ireland be possible? The CPS is serving notice. If it will not prosecute this, then it would not prosecute any assisted suicide. Is that also true of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service? Or of the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland?

Still, the CPS has successfully prosecuted Vickrum Digwa for the murder of Henry Nowak. Fresh from wanting to ban kosher slaughter, Rupert Lowe now also wants to alienate the strongest opponents of ritual slaughter by banning the kirpan. Yet Digwa's murder weapon was not his ceremonial kirpan, being far larger than those customarily worn at least in this country, where, moreover, they are usually dull-edged. And Lowe favours something like the Second Amendment for the Britain from which he advocated mass deportations. Think on.