By James Simons-
A retired engineer who sent racist and threatening emails to six MPs has escaped jail after being given a weak nine-week suspended jail sentence.
Despite the judge concluding that Halls’s comments crossed the custody threshold, chairman of the bench, Paul Wooding, let him off lightly. Hall was handed handed a 9 week sentence suspended for 12 months, and was ordered to complete 25 days of rehabilitation work and pay £735 in costs and a victim surcharge. David Hall eventually admitted the offences after an initial denial of them. The offences included sending six grossly offensive messages, including one warning Labour’s David Lammy to “remember what happened to Jo Cox” and others saying four Tory MPs deserved to hang for “treachery” over Brexit legislation.
The pensioner also sent emails last December to Nicky Morgan, Dominic Grieve, David Lammy, Anna Soubry and Heidi Allen, in the wake of an EU withdrawal bill vote in parliament. David Hall, an ignorant 72 year old, also sent an email to Wolverhampton MP Eleanor Smith last July, calling for her to be put on “the first banana boat” to the “jungle clearing you came from”. However, the court decided to let him walk in what was practically a kick in the teeth to justice, and those he greatly insulted.
Mr Lammy and Ms Morgan were in attendance at Wallsall Magistrates Court, prepared to give evidence against Hall until his change of plea.
The email sent to Mr Lammy read: “I would like to give you a friendly warning. As you attack the White population of Britain in your aims to gain Black Supremacy in this country, remember what happened to Jo Cox.
“I AM NOT ONE OF THEM but there are those out there who would like to see you suffer the same fate. Be careful!!”
The 72-year-old, of Windsor Gardens, Castlecroft, Wolverhampton, had denied six charges of sending grossly offensive and menacing messages, but changed his plea to guilty at Walsall Magistrates’ Court.
Littered with capital letters and exclamation marks, the email had the subject line “YOUR BACK STABBING TREACHERY” and read: “You deserve to be HUNG for your attack on our democracy yesterday. WE VOTED OUT OUT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and your attack on the British VOTE to leave the PARASITIC FRAUDSTERS in the EU amounts to an act of TREASON.
“In WW2 you would have ‘SWUNG’ for this act of TREACHERY – You join a long list of British TRAITORS – MAY YOU BURN IN HELL FOR ETERNITY.”
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