A judge in Birmingham has acquitted a Catholic priest and a pregnancy counsellor of so-called “thought crimes” after police charged the pair in connection with praying outside an abortion clinic. District Judge David Wain dismissed the case against Fr Sean Gough, 33, an assistant priest in Wolverhampton and Staffordshire, and Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, 45, of Malvern,
UK Column’s policing commentator unpicks the unenforceable nonsense of one of Britain’s new wave of local council Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs), explains the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates and asks why the Church of England couldn’t care less about criminalised silent prayer. The tyrant state abhors an objective standard to which it is accountable;
Interrogated over ‘Unborn Lives Matter’ Bumper Sticker: Fr Sean’s Story (ADF UK/YT): A Catholic priest is facing a legal battle after he was charged for breaching a censorship zone by silently praying, in addition to holding a sign with the words “praying for free speech,” near a closed abortion facility in Birmingham. A further charge
Summary A second individual is now facing a penalty for praying in an abortion facility “censorship zone” in Bournemouth Adam Smith-Connor is challenging council fine, which is based on him saying: “I’m praying for my son, who is deceased” “Dear Suella”: ADF UK launch public letter, invite signatures to support freedom of thought in public
Woman Arrested for Silently Praying (AllThingsProLife/YT): A woman has been arrested and charged after she told police she “might” be silently praying whilst she was standing on a public street near an abortion clinic in Birmingham. Director of the March For Life UK, Isabel Vaughn-Spruce, was standing near the British Pregnancy Advisory Service clinic in