Jonathan Arnott MEP on ‘deeply disturbing’ Lib Dem Councillor
remarks regarding alleged Tyneside sex attack victim.
Reacting to the news that a Lib Dem Cllr suggested an alleged Tyneside
sex attack victim was too ugly to be targeted, Jonathan Arnott MEP
said:
“There is much about this case that is deeply disturbing. For an elected
councillor to describe a woman as ‘too ugly’ to be raped is deeply disturbing
and distressing. Frankly, comments like that have no place in politics. He has
resigned from the Lib Dems; he should resign from the Council
altogether.
“I can’t comment on suggestions by Italian police that she might have
‘made it up’ because I’m not in possession of the full facts of the case. But
this shows the danger of the European Arrest Warrant: thanks to Cameron signing
back up to it, British citizens can still be extradited to face trial abroad
without a British court having reviewed the evidence. In such cases there is a
serious risk of miscarriage of justice because we’ve given up the right to
protect our own people.”
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