Judge frees Enoch Burke from prison on ‘open-ended basis’

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  1. A mistake by the judge. They’ll just end up rearresting him in January when he breaches the order again

  2. Makes sense, school is closed. Court are taking the high ground here.

    If/when Enoch returns to school grounds or breaks further Court orders he will be back. So ball is now firmly in his court and he can’t blame any future incarceration on his pronoun bullshit.

  3. Can see him turning up at home, family outside with little flags and bunting drapped around the house, “tie a yellow ribbon” blasting out of the gramophone.

  4. It may be time for new legislation on trespass, to add to the circumstances under which trespass is considered to be criminal. At the moment, trespass is only criminal if it causes fear or is likely to cause fear. Arguably, it should also be criminal if it is in breach of a court order, contrary to a direct instruction from the legal occupier, or undertaken with the purpose of committing another crime.

    In the particular circumstances of this case, such a change in the law would get us away from hand-wringing about whether it is right to imprison a person indefinitely for civil contempt of court, and instead impose a prison sentence or fine each time criminal trespass was found at trial to have occurred at the school in question.

  5. Judge made a couple of good points: 1. This is getting him attention that he doesn’t deserve and he knows it. 2. It’s costing the taxpayers money. Enoch is a bell end. The sooner he’s out of the public eye the better.

  6. I don’t agree with this as the Burke’s will take this as an huge victory and it will only empower them to cause more trouble in the future.

  7. I look forward to hearing about his swift return to prison once schools open again and he charges in to continue harassing the principal over a kid he wasn’t even teaching.

    What an absolute tool.

  8. He should never have gone to prison, he was standing by his beliefs, it’s dangerous territory jailing people for not conforming to fantasy land,

  9. Absolute bullshit. He didn’t purge his contempt and he’s free anyway. Now him and the rodent infestation he calls his “family” can claim they were vindicated.

  10. Sad to see. The judge caved in. Burke wins and the legal system loses. The next person who disobeys a court order can look forward to getting out of court even quicker.

  11. This is an open invitation for other lunatics to play hardball with the justice system and claim the upper hand when judges back down.
    Terrible decision. He should absolutely not have been released until he purged his contempt.

  12. Really makes him sound more like a kiddy fiddler that he’s only allowed out when the schools are closed and he can’t get near the kids

  13. I’m so glad to see the monstrous treatment of someone who didn’t do anything to deserve it finally end.
    Enoch Burke is released, and with it, his innocent cellmate can finally get a good night’s fuckin rest now that the prick is out and off planning his next school break-in.

  14. It was stupid that this ever got to the point that it was wasting court or police time.
    It should have been dealt with by the school headmaster

  15. Let’s not forget the school in all this. There were protestors at the school yesterday and the gardai were called.

    Guaranteed further disruption in January.

  16. Strange that the courts aren’t corrupt and acting in defiance of god now. Shower of absolute doses.

    Every single hearing has ended with *his fucking ma* screaming at the court.

    His *ma*. At his age.

    Of course jesus hates a child trying to find their sexual and/or gender compass.

  17. I presume this family and both minted and either related or socially connected to someone in the times.

    They constantly get articles about them, when there’s loads of anti-abortion headers going around who will never get a word written about them

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