Enoch Burke sent back to prison

by mublin

15 comments

  4. Grand, don’t let him out until he apologises, commits to never going near that school again and pays his fines.

  5. >Random male who keeps standing outside school sent to prison.

    FTFY

  7. Good. Can’t be having a weirdo unvetted military age male standing outside a school everyday. I presume the usual right wing nutters support this decision

  9. I’ve seen this one before, Westport Baptist Church revival

  10. Hope they threw away the key this time. Creep.

  11. Good, he was taking the pi$$. When, they let him out again, if he returns to the school, he should be sent back to jail immediately. Time to stop giving him special treatment.

  13. If nothing else, the Burke case shows the need for clearer reform of civil contempt.

    Right now, if someone like Enoch doesn’t follow a court order just to get attention, the only solution the Courts are comfortable with is keeping that person in jail indefinitely until they follow the order. The repeated chances to clear their contempt provide additional opportunities for attention.

    Although the Courts can put someone in jail for a set time as a punishment for not following an order, the rules (which stem from precedent) are not sufficiently clear as to when they can do this. So, they avoid it.

    Someone needs to sit down in the Department of Justice and start on a reform of civil contempt, some of the work has already been done by the Law Reform Commission. It’s going to be complicated, but we should make straightforward rules for when the Courts can jail someone for a set period if they don’t follow an order.

    It would be simpler to just jail Enoch for two years, and everyone would know that sanction is possible from the start. If he goes against the order after serving time, a new order could be sought and he could be jailed again for the same period if he breaches it. The escalation pattern should be clear, unambiguous, and impossible to avoid.

    This would draw less attention to people like Burke, give a clear penalty, and offer clarity for those who get the order on how violations will be handled.

  14. This is what the wankwr wanted. Now he’ll be a marker to the rest of the nuts. Shoukd have just sent him to the lietrim

  15. Stick him in the general population in Mountjoy. He’ll say sorry and never go near a school again. Freak

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