CPS warns people that they 'cannot hide on social media when stirring up hatred and violence'


A man who posted a Facebook message calling for all British Muslims to be killed in the wake of the Manchester attack has been jailed for a year.

Keegan Jakovlevs, of Wrexham in North Wales, previously pleaded guilty to publishing material with the intention of stirring up religious hatred.

The 22-year-old was sentenced at Mold Crown Court for the crime, which is made illegal by the Public Order Act 1986. 

Prosecutors said Jakovlevs posted his message shortly after the bombing at Manchester Arena on 22 May and that it was taken down shortly afterwards.

Isis supporter Salman Abedi killed 22 victims, including children, and injured 250 more when he detonated a homemade bomb as fans poured out of an Ariana Grande concert.

“Jakovlevs’s Facebook message expressed sympathy for the families of those caught up in the bombing but then, using racist and offensive language, he called for every Muslim in the country to be killed,” a spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.

“The prosecution argued that Jakovlevs’s single message was particularly serious because it was posted so soon after the Manchester bombing when public emotions were running high.”

The CPS said the message was accessible to his 2,154 Facebook friends “at the very least” and to other members of the public.

“Overall, there was potential for it to have been seen by a very large number of people and for serious harm to have occurred in addition to the obvious fear and distress suffered by any member of the Muslim community who may have seen it,” prosecutors added.

Sue Hemming, head of the special crime and counter-terrorism division in the CPS, said no harmful action was traced to the post but Jakovlevs’s “intention was clear”.

She added: “After the Manchester attack there were countless messages of support on social media for those affected but Keegan Jakovlevs chose to stir up religious hatred by calling for British Muslims to be indiscriminately killed.

“People should not assume they can hide on social media when stirring up hatred and violence. Where there is evidence the CPS will prosecute them and they will face imprisonment as a result.”

Numerous defendants have been prosecuted for social media posts in recent months, for offences including inciting hatred and violence, and spreading Isis propaganda.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-british-muslims-killed-manchester...

DNA caught criminals years later.

Near future cyber tools will get all these slobs on ozpolitics, hiding behind a computer screen, who have broken laws.

Oh look! BigOl has pulled out one of his 3 only arguments (two of which are pictures).

It's interesting to note he's pulled out one of his other 3 arguments in a thread in the Islam section only moments ago .. so expect to see trauma-porn of a woman being horrendously executed any moment.

mothra wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 4:28pm:



All muslim all the time.

This is who they really are, not the bullsh1t lies that you try and spin as the 'truth'.


You are a liar, nothing more

In a civilised society, inciting violence should dealt with by the police and the judiciary. However, in the Western World, we tolerate such dangerous rants when they comes from Muzlims, and we do this by saying, "Oh they aren't all like that. That's just few criminal types." And the police and the judiciary sit around until another Manchester type of event prompts someone to say something should be done in retaliation. This has been going on for 20 years, and while I don't think killing all Muzlims is the answer, I can see where this guy is coming from. We do need to retaliate, violence is the only thing Muzlims respect.

Has anybody from the Didsbury Mosque where the bomber (who slaughtered 23 people) was radicalized been arrested?

Oh well, at least they locked up a Facebook poster...yay.

mothra wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 3:55pm:



I am not aware of anything similar being called for here.

Criticising Islam and its adherents, even calling for the end of Muslim immigration or the deportation of all convicted terrorists and their circle is nothing remotely like calling for the murder of all Muslims in a particular country.

____ wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 4:30pm:



Maybe you want to talk to news.com about their reporting, then


http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/isis-flag-has-been-brandished-by-extremi...

Yet this was acceptable in the UK - go figure?

Kill the Mushriken wherever you find them.

I think so. 12 months seems a bit harsh though, seeing as he had a limited audience and took it down soon after. Not sure what it really means with probation. It was also pretty vague.

Should we also jail Muslims who call for the killing of all the Mushriken?

freediver wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 7:25pm:



Victim blaming. Typical.

mothra wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 3:55pm:



so should FD. As the owner of the forum he needs to be careful what he allows. Pretending just isn't going to cut it for him in the real world

Frank wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 6:16pm:





can't believe he said that

freediver wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 7:43pm:



Not if they're Muslims, FD. You forgot that caveat.

polite_gandalf wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 7:47pm:



Nice of you to say that Gandalf -
practically speaking - do you think
any of these people got 1 year's jail?

Bobby. wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 7:51pm:


you don't know if they did or didn't so stop pretending bobby

polite_gandalf wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 7:47pm:


What if they are reading from the Koran at the time?

One of the people who held up a beheading sign in Australia handed herself into the police afterwards. They basically told her to go away.

John Smith wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 7:38pm:



Well, you are stupid, Gino. That's why we keep you - the idiotic, South of Eboli, barbarian angle on thing. You know, Christ  stopped at Eboli and you peasants are unredeemed.

Otherwise you would have posted something to support your idiocy.

Lord Herbert wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 9:26pm:


If campaigning for the death penalty was a crime, you'd be in Goulburn's Pom section, Herbie.

It's probably like the Great Escape - cups of tea, Red Cross food parcels, and sodomy.

The skinheads must love it in there.

Frank wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 9:41pm:


Oh look, it's the idiot post.

Don't you look, Hole. The old boy's mine.

I won her in a bet with the Islanders.

freediver wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 9:24pm:


For the sake of veracity I feel obliged to clean this up a little.

This woman in a hijab at no time held up the sign herself, but while walking with a pram and her young boy they came across a discarded sign in the park where all this raging was still going on, and got her son to hold up the sign for her to take photos of it.

She was no doubt the wife of one of the protesters, and one would assume she was fully supportive of the 'beheading' messages, but the fact remains that neither she nor her kid held the sign up as part of the protest. 

Lord Herbert wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 8:58am:


The cities have never been fuller, Herb. But strangely enough, crime's at an all time low.

I'd love to relieve our cities, but I don't know if making up fake crimes to fill up prisons with is the best idea.

We tried that once before.

Dr Mengele wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 9:28am:


Working out okay for you, FD?

Perhaps you've not caught a faint smell on the wind?

I would pay attention to it, if i were you.

Mr Hammer wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 9:52am:


Angry? No. It takes more than that to make me angry, Hammer.

A better question would be do i think a black person thinking black people are superior would trouble me.

The answer is no.

However, i am troubled by white people claiming supremacy.

Can you work out why?

mothra wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 9:55am:




Because you are a self loathing socialist who hates 'whitey'.

mothra wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 9:59am:
why?

mothra wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 10:04am:

The power issue is irrelevant. It's a personal choice. There are loads of black nationalist groups in the US.

mothra wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 10:09am:


because white run the best countries.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 10:51am:




Well when a muslim threatens to kill an infidel /whitey they are representatives of the religion of peace if whitey complains or retaliates they are filthy racist islamophobes.

Mr Hammer wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 11:15am:



Oh Hammer! You really believe that crap, don't you. Bless.

No Hammer. I do not believe myself superior to anyone.

I think most people do not consider themselves superior to anyone.

I consider thinking yourself superior to anyone to be a sign of mental illness.

.... or gobsmacking stupidity. Tremendous ignorance at the least.

BigOl64 wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 11:55am:


Do you? In what way? In all ways?

You seriously think that people with mental health issues and those who fail to meet your standards of intellect are worth less than you?

Seriously?

BigOl64 wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 11:55am:


I am in your club, BigOl64.

Us Superior people are ............ just better.
That is all

mothra wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 11:58am:

mothra wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 12:10pm:



Fkk jesus, he has nothing to do with anything. First up he isn't real, second he isn't real.

mothra wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 12:20pm:



Look at you all ready to divide and conquer. 


You going to retract your insult to mentally ill and gobsmakingly stupid?

mothra wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 12:30pm:


Your making such a comment is superfluous..... everyone has their merits and their deficits.... thus you are the best mothra around the traps....... and BigOle is the best BigOle.... longie the best longie... without the input of all these various characters, this would be a very boring place...

mothra wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 12:30pm:



Then you need to learn to read and comprehend better shouldn't you?


You can't demean the mentally ill and gobsmakingly stupid without feeling superior, or didn't you realise how demeaning one or more groups make them feel?

mothra wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 12:10pm:




Quote:


Matthew 7:17-19

mothra wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 12:48pm:


You are an incredibly stupid person aren't you?

I mean kicked in the fkken head by a mule level of stupid.

No wonder people treat you with such contempt and derision. 

BigOl64 wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 1:30pm:



Oh good. We've reached the "insult in lieu of argument" stage of proceedings.

What one does, i suppose, when one just makes stuff up and is called on it.

BigOl64 wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 5:06am:


We should, if and when that ever happens.

polite_gandalf wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 6:17pm:


The guy in the OP was not threatening to kill anyone. If I could tell when Muslims were going to actually start killing people I would be a rich man. Or at least, important.

BTW, you didn't answer the question Gandalf.

How many of the beheading placard people were actually threatening to kill someone?

Gandy, there seems to be a fair bit of agreement from all sides that the subject of the OP should be punished in some manner yet no unilateral concensus that Muslims demanding beheadings should suffer a similar fate.

Why?

Gordon wrote on Sep 13^th, 2017 at 11:46am:



Well moth would never condemn muslim threats under any circumstance, she would be more inclined to attack the messenger than show any real concern that these people are in our midst




mothra wrote on Sep 11^th, 2017 at 4:28pm:




We even had greenswine tried to lie about the veracity of the evidence presented, though his lie was easily proven wrong and yet unacknowledged by him.


The apologists for muslim terrorists are without shame or intellect it seems. 

cods wrote on Sep 13^th, 2017 at 12:08pm:


Oh?  I always taught to never make threats, just promises, Cods...   

polite_gandalf wrote on Sep 13^th, 2017 at 10:43am:


So how do we tell whether a Muslim talking about slaughtering the Mushriken wherever you find them is actually talking about slaughtering the Mushriken wherever you find them?

freediver wrote on Sep 12^th, 2017 at 8:28pm: