Victoria Thomas Bowen avoids jail after throwing milkshake at Nigel Farage in Clacton during election campaign
https://news.sky.com/story/victoria-thomas-bowen-avoid-jail-for-throwing-milkshake-at-nigel-farage-in-clacton-during-election-campaign-13274797
Posted by SlySquire
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> She had hurled the drink at the Reform UK MP, 60, as he left the Moon and Starfish Wetherspoon pub in the Essex town on 4 June.
Great, now she can get back to selling pictures of her moon and starfish.
Why on earth would it ever have resulted in a prison sentence?
I wonder if the publicity has resulted in enough new subscribers to offset her legal costs.
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How can this savage be allowed on our streets?
Anyway…
> In a victim impact statement read out in court, Mr Farage said he “felt humiliated” by the incident as it was “broadcast on national and international media”.
Hmm I’m sure he said the opposite at the time.
Nice, I’m glad.
It still won’t stop Nigel and his cronies thinking twice about their braindead hatred though.
>Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, was sentenced to 13 weeks in prison suspended for 12 months.
>The criminal damage to the jacket Mr Farage’s security officer James Woolfenden was wearing amounted to £17.50, the court was told.
>Thomas Bowen was ordered to pay Mr Woolfenden the £17.50 compensation, as well as £154 in a victim surcharge to Mr Farage and £450 in costs.
>She will also have to complete 12 rehabilitation activity requirement days and 120 hours of unpaid work.
Seems fitting but can we not normalise milkshaking. It’s pathetic. There are a lot of ways to advertise that you don’t like someone’s political stance without having to throw things at them.
I’ve never wished a man milkshaked, but I’ve read some dry cleaning bills with great pleasure.
We shouldn’t be violent towards politicians
Nigel Farage being milkshaked is objectively funny
These two positions are not mutually exclusive
Thankyou for listening my TedTalk
Doesn’t matter enough to warrant a prison sentence fine her and be done with it. If anything it just gives Farage publicity which he always turns into a good thing for him.
> She will also have to complete […] 120 hours of unpaid work.
Surely in a situation such as this where the offender has a particular set of professional skills, that the unpaid work takes the same form as her paid work but done for free to the taxpayer.
Interesting comments here saying that she didn’t deserve any sort of punishment.
If this had been about a right winger throwing milkshakes at a left wing politician, I imagine the same people would be calling for hard jail time.
Now imagine if it happened to one of the media darlings that the left leaning love. I think the script and outrage would be very different.
I sit central on the political scale before anyone sends their attack dogs to downvote me 🙂
Waste of a milkshake. A cup of week old piss would have been more appropriate
How many people have been assaulted and police have made no effort to pursue the attacker, let alone have them?
Let us not forget the violence this man has inspired and personally caused…
He does not have a political or religious view, he’s an enemy of the state.
Good. Look, this shouldn’t be encouraged and it is assault, but also? It wasn’t anything hot, toxic or caustic. It was never intended to injure him, and it didn’t injure him.
It was an impulse drawn from the traditions of circus, pantomime and summer school fetes where you throw a custard pie at a clown or a wet sponge at your teacher. It wasn’t an attempt to terrorise anyone.
A suspended sentence for throwing a milkshake over somebody? What a joke this country is. It’s a shame she didn’t just lie in public office, fraudulently make millions from POE or nonce up some kids, she’d have got away with an ever lesser sentence.
This sub is extremely interesting these days. Nigel Farage is deeply unpopular and posts aimed against him get massive support. On the other hand, when threads about immigrant and Muslim crime in the UK are posted as they frequently are now (one of Farage’s big issues) then everyone pretty much agree with Farage although without mentioning him by name. Cognitive dissonance or just different segments of the sub weighing in?
Two tier policing right there.
Not many people crying about spilt milk would have it investigated.
Yes it was wrong, no it shouldn’t have happened, but I’d very much like to see all victims of assault be helped with as much gusto as the pepperami animal has been
Ok let’s all throw one at starmer now we know we can’t go to prison. Make sure it’s cold so he knows how your granny feels
Most people will see this and think she may well not deserve prison time for throwing a drink over Nigel Farage and that’s fine
The problem is that some people have been sent to prison for 2-3 year sentences for posts on social media
Two Tier system
She essentially paid the grand sum of £171.50 to have her only fans account advertised on mainstream media through the reporting of this “case”
It’s currently #1 read article on BBC this morning.
What would jail time have achieved? Not to mention the cost ti the taxpayer and the space she would’ve taken up mightve meant a domestic abuser etc. didn’t get put away.
Genuine question, but if launching a milkshake at someone is assault, does that mean swilling someone with a drink in the pub is too?
The world’s gone woke. When I was a kid, we used to just find this kind of thing [hilarious](https://youtu.be/nAh_MenKY6U?si=qrK4ZFl5OF4Cmoi7). Nowadays you get arrested and sentenced because the good old British humour has been killed.