Tommy’s friends are turning into a real demonstration in the streets of London since his arrest.
This might actually backfire on the Judge and the POLs.
There are several aspects to this.
First, as large as the rape-trial has become....there’s no way that it functioned to this size, with gangs openly carrying this on, without the cops just looking the other way. Even if they were good cops....they just looked the other way and allowed the gangs to function. You’d have to go and transfer/fire every single cop in that region.
Second, as amusing as it sounds....an attorney can bring up this matter up through the EU appeals court, and the EU ‘Supreme Court’ might tell them to release Robinson.
Third, if anything happens to Robinson while in prison, and he ends up dead...I think the public will shift...demand elections, and the UKIP folks might get just enough votes to be the majority government. It would be a shock to the Tories and the Labor party.
Finally, with the landscape as fragile as it seems, I’m drawn to spring of 1924, and how the Bavarian court system felt that they could deal with Adolph Hitler. They sent him off for five years of prison and figured that would fix everything. Hitler produces his blueprint (his book) while in prison, and is released nine months into the sentence. He basically promises to respect the rule of law, and to participate in elections. I could see Robinson writing his own book while in prison, and getting released right around BREXIT.
I think all the legal system did was open up a path to a massive mess. Just to suggest that you could be arrested in the morning, charged in the afternoon, and get a 13-month sentence by 5 PM? What kind of banana-republic does that? The same one that allowed the rape-gangs to function.