According to reports, a white supremacist in the UK was found to have a bomb order and sentenced to reading Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and other classics to avoid imprisonment Telegraph.
Ben John, 21 years old, is Sentenced to two years probation At Leicester Criminal Court on Tuesday. According to the “Daily Telegraph”, at the hearing, Judge Timothy Spencer told John that as long as he reads classic books and plays by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, and Tom Hardy, He can be released from prison.
“Have you read Dickens? Austin? Start with “Pride and Prejudice” and Dickens’ “Tale of Two Cities.” Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”,” Judge Spencer said, according to The Telegraph. .
According to reports, John was convicted of possession of terrorist materials in August. Lincolnshire PoliceInvestigators found an electronic publication named “Anarchy Cookbook Version 2000” on his hard drive, which contained instructions for making bombs.The police said they also found nearly 68,000 documents on his hard drive, which contained “a large number of White supremacism and anti-Semitism material. “Every British Broadcasting Corporation, Lincolnshire police described John as “a white supremacist with a neo-Nazi ideology.”
After writing a letter to his school, John was determined to be a terrorist risk at the age of 18. He attacked homosexuals and immigrants in the letter and claimed to be a member of the “Lincoln Fascist Underground”. Weekly newspaper. He was referred to the UK Preventive procedures, Which aims to prevent people from becoming terrorists, but continues to download right-wing materials. police It is also determined that he is part of the extreme right on the Internet.
According to an iTV report, Judge Spencer called John’s crime a “juvenile folly” and an isolated incident. The judge added that John had escaped from prison on the basis of “the skin of his teeth.”
According to the “Daily Telegraph” report, John will take a test of designated reading knowledge every four months. The judge also made John promise not to research radical materials on the Internet.
Activists called for review of this sentence. Nick Lowles, CEO of the British campaign group Hope Not Hate, Letter to the Office of the Attorney General, Said the punishment was too light. The organization shared a copy of this letter on Twitter.
“For crimes of this nature, the probation and the recommended reading list of terrorist convictions in the English classics is too loose,” Lorse wrote, adding that this sentence conveyed a message that “violent right-wing extremists may be subject to court Leniency”.”
“Such a lenient sentence may encourage other young people to access and share terrorist and extremist content because they will not be afraid of the consequences of their actions,” Lowes wrote In the letter.
According to reports, the Attorney General’s Office said on Thursday that it had received a request to consider sentencing under an overly lenient penalty plan, which covers crimes related to terrorism. protector“Legal officials have 28 days to consider the case and make a decision,” a spokesperson for the attorney general told the Guardian.
John’s lawyer did not immediately respond to insider’s request for comment on this story.
