Terrible that it took so long. Even *if* harassment isn’t going to be taken seriously on an individual level, the fact that a single individual was accused of criminal activity by so many people, so frequently, for so long, is in indictment of a system that should be resourced to flag up and stop these persistent criminals.
I’m no psychologist, but I’d place a bet on him continuing to bother women once he’s released.
Surprise surprise – ASD and an incel. I question whether prison is really going to do anything, and could make him worse. 9 year sentence, he’ll be shit scared and keep his head down, so he’ll be out on good behaviour before he’s even 35 – hardly an old man who’ll have learned his lesson, if he’s even capable of learning anyway. His condition will probably mean he sees this punishment as something to be even more angry with society about, and like incels do, it’ll be “everyone else’s fault but mine”.
What he needs is serious psychiatric counselling and to be held under the Mental Health Act, but that would require a government that funds and legislates mental health services properly.
Also stunning that police, again probably due to serious under-funding, took so long, given *they knew who he was*. Surely he could easily have kept his identity secret, but seems he almost gave it away on purpose, perhaps his flawed thinking meant he thought he’d get sympathy? The fact is though, police knew who he was, interviewed and arrested him 10 times, and still nothing happened.
Was he a member of the Met? If so, that probably helped quite a bit.
Well if he had made a racist tweet the first one would have gotten him a custodial sentence, but he only stalked women so nothing to make a fuss about. /s
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Terrible that it took so long. Even *if* harassment isn’t going to be taken seriously on an individual level, the fact that a single individual was accused of criminal activity by so many people, so frequently, for so long, is in indictment of a system that should be resourced to flag up and stop these persistent criminals.
I’m no psychologist, but I’d place a bet on him continuing to bother women once he’s released.
Surprise surprise – ASD and an incel. I question whether prison is really going to do anything, and could make him worse. 9 year sentence, he’ll be shit scared and keep his head down, so he’ll be out on good behaviour before he’s even 35 – hardly an old man who’ll have learned his lesson, if he’s even capable of learning anyway. His condition will probably mean he sees this punishment as something to be even more angry with society about, and like incels do, it’ll be “everyone else’s fault but mine”.
What he needs is serious psychiatric counselling and to be held under the Mental Health Act, but that would require a government that funds and legislates mental health services properly.
Also stunning that police, again probably due to serious under-funding, took so long, given *they knew who he was*. Surely he could easily have kept his identity secret, but seems he almost gave it away on purpose, perhaps his flawed thinking meant he thought he’d get sympathy? The fact is though, police knew who he was, interviewed and arrested him 10 times, and still nothing happened.
Was he a member of the Met? If so, that probably helped quite a bit.
Well if he had made a racist tweet the first one would have gotten him a custodial sentence, but he only stalked women so nothing to make a fuss about. /s