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I might have a new hero. Well played m' lud.

'Judge Robert Linford then rounded on Cann telling him that according to his police interview he discussed with them "about the better use of taxpayers' money and why people were having to pay to keep these people in this country after committing such heinous crimes."

Judge Linford then launched a stinging rebuke to Cann saying: "So let's look at how the taxpayer have been funding your activities over the last 38 years - let's see what you've cost the country: you've got 10 aliases, four fictitious birth dates, you're 51 years of age, you've been convicted of 170 offences, you been convicted of theft, arson, taking cars, handling stolen goods, obtaining by deception, burglary, dangerous driving and possessing bladed articles. In all over the years that you've been visiting the criminal justice system you've received sentences totalling 357 months in prison, many of them concurrent.

"In other words, nearly 30 years. That Mr Cann is what you've been costing this country and you sit there in that interview and saw fit to be critical of others. You have no right whatever to say who should or should not be in this country."

Love it. Do you have a link?

Not excusing the miscreant but could he (to an extent) have been played. Vulnerable groups pitched against each other by far right agitators and enabling (disabling?) social media giants. Either way they've made an example of him now.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/judge-savagely-puts-plymouth-riot...

'Cann and Bailey were first to appear to be sentenced and prosecutor Lewis Aldous noted how Cann had been seen on police video footage on his mobility bike on the north side of Royal Parade, first bending down and picking up an item and throwing it at the counter-protestors. He was then shown later picking up firework and hurling it just before it went off.

He told police during his interview following his arrest that he went into the city with a friend to view the protest, thinking it would "kick off because an immigrant had killed some girls".

He insisted he held no animosity towards police and that his own nephew was an officer. He confirmed he was on medication, but had also been smoking cannabis. He told police he was not a racist and that he did light the firework with a cigarette he was smoking.'

Yes, yes. All very incriminating. He's be dealt with now by the judiciary. No need for further social media pile-ons I don't believe.

We are all collectively paying money for that utter moron to be banged up - so we all have a stake in it. If he was in the stocks, I'd happily throw rotting fruit and veg at him as a punishment. As it is, a bit of ribbing on here is unlikely to make the slightest difference to him: I have a hunch that he doesn't go climbing or hillwalking.

Although he has taken a 95 foot fall. And survived that. Parkour perhaps...

As a general comment, I think the speed with which prosecutions are taking place in respect of the recent riots is admirable. And I have zero problem with any of those convicted being publicly identified, and mocked. Maybe - just maybe - all this might cause other similar morons to think more carefully in future. I hope so.

As I said on another thread, Rwanda would be poetic justice.