>Senior District Judge Paul Goldspring sentenced the defendants to a conditional discharge, and both were ordered to pay £650 costs and a £26 court surcharge.
>”This was part of a deliberate and sustained campaign targeting the complainant,” he said.
>”This course of conduct was clearly designed to cause alarm and distress to her and she did experience alarm and distress. She stopped canvassing.”
>The judge said the case went “beyond the boundaries” of freedom of speech and was “beyond robust scrutiny or political process”.
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Article, likely intentionally, does a tremendous job of not explaining why they were actually convicted.
[Link](https://news.sky.com/story/activists-convicted-of-harassing-mp-alex-davies-jones-over-israel-hamas-war-13378503)
>Senior District Judge Paul Goldspring sentenced the defendants to a conditional discharge, and both were ordered to pay £650 costs and a £26 court surcharge.
>”This was part of a deliberate and sustained campaign targeting the complainant,” he said.
>”This course of conduct was clearly designed to cause alarm and distress to her and she did experience alarm and distress. She stopped canvassing.”
>The judge said the case went “beyond the boundaries” of freedom of speech and was “beyond robust scrutiny or political process”.
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Everyday our right to protest diminishes.
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