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Faced with two 16-year old youths who had desecrated Blackburn Cathedral by damaging a valuable cross and scribbling racist and sexually abusive graffiti on prayer books, the chairman of the magistrates’ bench said in sentencing: ‘Normal people would consider you absolute scum.’
His fellow magistrates agreed with him, but the clerk of the court objected to the language he used which she considered inappropriate. Unsurprisingly, the mother of one of the boys has lodged a complaint and an inquiry is now in progress.
Referring to the actions of the clerk, the magistrate later said, ‘She could have turned around and faced the bench and had a quiet word.’
He is absolutely right. Instead of wasting time looking into the language used by the magistrate and supported by many of us, the inquiry ought more to focus on why the court clerk bothered to interfere in this way.
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Faced with two 16-year old youths who had desecrated Blackburn Cathedral by damaging a valuable cross and scribbling racist and sexually abusive graffiti on prayer books, the chairman of the magistrates’ bench said in sentencing: ‘Normal people would consider you absolute scum.’
His fellow magistrates agreed with him, but the clerk of the court objected to the language he used which she considered inappropriate. Unsurprisingly, the mother of one of the boys has lodged a complaint and an inquiry is now in progress.
Referring to the actions of the clerk, the magistrate later said, ‘She could have turned around and faced the bench and had a quiet word.’
He is absolutely right. Instead of wasting time looking into the language used by the magistrate and supported by many of us, the inquiry ought more to focus on why the court clerk bothered to interfere in this way.
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