Allwyn Rondeau, der arme Kerl, der von den wobbelnden Busen seiner Arbeitskollegin bedroht wurde, ist von einem Arbeitsgericht eine Ausgleichzahlung von rund GBP 62000 zugesprochen worden:
Man wins £62,000 in sex discrimination compensation
Gay airport guard awarded compensation in sexual harassment case
Bleibt nur zu hoffen, dass sich der Arbeitgeber bei der dummen Kuh, die da ständig über Allwyn hergefallen ist, schadlos hält.
Die Westboro Baptist Church und ihre Hasstiraden absondernden Mitglieder dürfen nicht nach Großbritannien einreisen, entschied die dortige Innenministerin:
Two American hate preachers have been banned from entering the UK where they planned to picket a play by a gay youth group, the Home Office said today.
Extremist Christian leaders Fred Phelps and daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper were to protest outside a performance of The Laramie Project, the story of an American man killed for being gay, being performed at a school arts centre in Basingstoke, Hampshire, tomorrow.
But Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has barred them and a UK Border Agency spokesman said: “The Home Secretary has excluded both Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper from the UK.
Dementsprechend spärlich fiel der geplante Protest aus:
A threatened mass protest by an anti-gay US church failed to materialise when only one demonstrator turned up.
Selbverständlich wird sich jetzt der Zorn Gottes über dem Vereinigten Königreich entladen:
Westboro preacher Mrs Phelps-Roper had said the decision to ban her and her father from entering the UK would “bring great wrath upon your heads”.
Ganz schön vermessen, die …, hm, dumme Kuh habe ich oben schon geschrieben, also irgend so etwas ähnliches.
Ein weniger glückliches Händchen hatte die britische Innenministerin Jacqui Smith, als sie im vergangenen Jahr den Ayslantrag eines schwulen Mannes ablehnte und ihn gewaltsam zurück in sein Heimatland bringen ließ, wo er seither verfolgt wird. The Hight Court of Justice hat der guten Frau und ihrer Behörde eine schallende Ohrfeige verpasst, indem er entschied, dass das Abschiebeverfahren des schwulen Mannes, der nur als Mr X bezeichnet wird, fehlerhaft war und die britische Regierung gefälligst dafür sorgen soll, dass dieser Mann zurück ins Königreich gebracht wird:
The High Court has ordered the Home Secretary to secure the return of a gay man forcibly removed from the UK to his native country.
A judge condemned the failed asylum seeker’s removal as “manifestly unlawful” and ordered Jacqui Smith to “use her best endeavours” to bring him back.
The judge warned that the practising homosexual, Mr X, and his homeland must not be named because he fears persecution and is in hiding.
The judge said it appeared to him that officers of the UK Border Agency, which is responsible for controlling migration, had “deliberately misled” Mr X and effectively deprived him of his right to seek legal advice before his removal.
Their actions were calculated “to avoid any complication that could arise from his removal becoming publicly known”, said the judge.
In a statement seen by the court Mr X said that, last September, he was deceived into thinking he was being taken from Tinsley House immigration removal centre, located on the perimeter of Gatwick Airport, for an interview with an immigration officer.
Instead, without warning, he was taken in a van by four security men to a plane.
He said that when he resisted leaving the van he was handcuffed, punched in his private parts to make him straighten his legs so they could be belted together. Crying, he was lifted on to the plane and flown out of the country.
His mobile phone had been taken from him and he was given no chance to contact friends or lawyers, even though Home Office rules required that he should have 72 hours’ notice of removal to give him a chance to make calls.
Lawyers for the Home Secretary conceded in court that his removal was carried out illegally.
The judge added: “It seems to me they deliberately misled him to avoid him making any contact with the Refugee Legal Centre.”
Mr X said in a statement seen by the court that, on his return to his homeland, his circumstances had become “quite desperate”.
He had been beaten up during a period in detention and he had now gone into hiding to avoid being interviewed by the police about his homosexuality.
The judge said the evidence before him made it perfectly plain that Mr X had come to the notice of the authorities, and this had added to the risk of his human rights being breached by reason of his homosexuality.
He rejected the Home Secretary’s argument that there was no point in him returning to the UK to pursue his asylum application.
The judge said: “I find it impossible to conclude, on the basis of the evidence as it now is, that there is not the real possibility that a judge might find that he is at risk if he is returned (to his homeland) by reason of his homosexuality.”
Schön ist, dass der Richter die vom der britischen Regierung im Zusammenhang mit Asylfragen gerne vertretene Auffassung, schwule Männer sollten einfach auf gleichgeschlechtlichen Sex verzichten, dann passiere ihnen auch in ihren Heimatländern nichts, nicht goutiert. Ich bin gespannt, wie es in diesem Fall weitergeht.
Michael Causer war Mitte letzten Jahres durch seine ‘Freunde’ brutal ermordet worden, als diese realisierten, dass Michael schwul war.
But last July, as the 18-year-old lay in an upstairs bedroom at an after-pub party, sleeping off the effects of a night’s drinking, he was viciously assaulted and his bleeding body dumped outside in the street. The attack took place at the home of a friend’s grandmother, in the Liverpool suburb of Huyton.
According to evidence put before the jury, the trigger-point for the violence came when sexually explicit images of the trainee hairdresser were found on his mobile phone, prompting a “sustained and brutal” attack on his naked sleeping form and leaving him with a fractured skull and a swollen brain. Mr Causer was punched, kicked and finally battered around the head with a heavy history book so forcibly that the book’s spine broke, the court heard. It was alleged that Mr Alker, who had never met Mr Causer, screamed “You little queer faggot” adding, “He’s a little queer, he deserves it.” During the trial it was also claimed that a cigarette lighter was used to burn the hair on Mr Causer’s legs, and that threats were made to rip out his body piercings with a knife.
Die Polizei in Liverpool hat damals ausgezeichnete Arbeit geleistet, von Anfang an keinen Zweifel daran gelassen, dass es sich hier um ein homophobes Hassverbrechen handelt, und einen schnellen Fahndungserfolg erzielt.
Ein Teil der Meanstreammedien jedoch wollte das Verbrechen verschweigen:
It is a point likewise made by Ben Summerskill of Stonewall. “It is testament to the lack of seriousness with which these kinds of incidents are treated. They are simply not regarded as newsworthy. The BBC has reported every single murder of an adolescent in the past 18 months in this country as a national news story, but not this one.”
Und nun kommt eine homophobe Jury daher und meint, Michael Causer sei selbst schuld an seinem Unglück, er habe seine Mörder geradezu gezwungen, ihn zu ermorden:
But the jury accepted Mr Alker’s evidence that he had been acting in self-defence after he denied making homophobic comments, blaming the attack on O’Connor.
Damit dürfte die Sache aber noch nicht erledigt sein:
On Friday however, Mr Causer’s family and friends who had packed into the public gallery at Liverpool Crown Court to hear a jury decide on Gavin Alker, a 19-year-old man accused of carrying out his homophobic murder, were left in tears as the defendant was acquitted at the end of a three-week trial.
Last Sunday, 100 friends and relatives returned to the court precincts to express their sense of shock and outrage at the verdict and to demonstrate for what they see as justice in the case. They said they are now hoping to launch a private prosecution.
“We were so shocked at Friday’s judgment. Michael was made out to be a thug in that trial. Gavin Alker claimed he acted in self-defence,” said Mr Causer’s mother Marie, holding her grand-daughter Daisy who her son had helped deliver just six weeks before his death, remaining “tender and calm” throughout the birth.
“Michael weighed seven-and-a-half stone. He couldn’t have hurt a fly. If anyone acted in self-defence that night it was Michael. I want someone to explain to me how a lad who worked in an old people’s home for free, who called bingo numbers, who volunteered for the British Lung Foundation’s Breathe Easy scheme can be a thug,” she said
