KEIR STARMER SHOULD BE IN THE DOCK

PAUL SUTTON

This is by Jason Powell, a commentator below the line at The Spectator. It’s a very well-written exposure of judicial corruption, under Starmer, and needs to be as widely seen as possible:

Home Secretary
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA

20th April, 2025

Dear Yvette Cooper,

I will be requesting a judicial review into the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, because of how he broke the law in the aftermath of the Southport murders. Since those events, at least one case of improper trial and conviction has occurred, which is directly due to the Prime Minister’s actions. I am writing to you now, as a courtesy, so that your department can look into this specific case, before we resort to proceedings against your party leader. The Southport stabbing attack and murders took place on Monday 29th July, 2024.

On the 1st August, Keir Starmer held a COBRA meeting, where he formulated a response to the rioting which followed the murders. At the meeting, he discussed a co-ordinated response of police chiefs from different constabularies, and called on the help of the public prosector (the CPS), and other government ministers. At this point, the Prime Minister disregarded police independence, and Crown Prosecution Service independence. In this way, the executive illegally or unconstitutionally began to treat the public prosecutions, the police forces of the country, and the judiciary, as if they were arms of the state executive. The result was a period where courts delivered improper sentences, and lost their constitutionally guaranteed and historic independence.

Later in the day on 1st August, the Prime Minister prejudiced future trials by means of a public statement. He repeatedly informed the public at a press conference, that anyone arrested for disorder was ‘a right wing thug’ and a racist. The Prime Minister in this way prejudiced all future trials, and misled the public, lawyers, jurors, and judges with his unverified and personal opinions. He misused the office of Prime Minister; using his platform, he prejudged all trials, and accused all suspects of being ‘right wing thugs’ unworthy of justice.

It was reported the same day, 1st August, that justice would be swift, in order to ‘deter’, justice not for itself, but for a political message, so that judges would be sending a message on behalf of the government. The Prime Minister publicly informed the country, that the judiciary would be under pressure to work around the clock, and to give out swift and harsh justice on his instruction.

It has emerged since, that either at the COBRA meeting of 1st August, or before it, the Prime Minister had put pressure on the Crown Prosecution Service, not to reveal the identity of the murderer. Whether this was the cause of further misunderstandings among the public or not, it is prima fascia evidence of the Prime Minister forcing the CPS to act according to his designs, and not their own. Additionally, the CPS then, in their turn, put pressure on police forces around the country. Constitutionally, historically, and by principle, the CPS, the police, and the courts and the judiciary, absolutely must be protected from this sort of thing, and it is essential that they are independent of the executive arm of the state. This is so that the state does not arrogate to itself a totalitarian or despotic power, and so that it does not go retrograde into a third world, or failed state situation, and thereby become the master and enemy of the people.

On Saturday 3rd August, my acquaintance, who was 19 years old at the time, took the train to central Liverpool, where he meant to start work at his job. Outside Lime Street station, Merseyside police officers assaulted him and detained him with a crowd of other people who, unlike him, were gathered to cause trouble. His place of work was closed, and it was while he was trying to get back into the railway station so as to return home that this happened to him. Hours later, still unable to get away from a crowd of violent people, he was seen to throw a rock in a random direction; he did so for his own safety, trying to be inconspicuous by doing what the violent mob was doing. He is of excellent character and would not have been there by choice.

He was photographed throwing the rock, and it was alleged by the police that in doing this he had commited an offence; but no other allegations by the CPS have been made against him. The photographs of him trying to leave earlier in the day, when Merseyside Police assaulted him and prevented from leaving the city to get home, were not produced by the police at his court appearance. He had handed himself in on 23rd December after police distributed his photograph. He pleaded guilty at his court hearing, expecting lenience and advised by his solicitors, but he was sentenced to 18 months on 20th March, 2025.

Shortly after being sent to prison, he received a letter from the Home Office, saying he would be deported to Romania and not allowed to return to the UK, under the 2007 Immigration Act. He was born in Romania, but has lived in England since 2016, with his mother; he was a student at the university at the time of his sentencing. He has indefinite leave to remain, and has grown up here.

Now, he himself, and his family, were prepared to accept the prison term. He is of such good character, that he is likely to be released well in advance of his sentence, on licence. However, the deportation instruction is too much. I personally have decided that this is too much, and I am acting on my own initiative, when I now begin considering how the current Prime Minister has done too much harm, and how he must be prosecuted, after investigation by the same judiciary which he has used for his own advantage, and harmed so much. For, it is as Macaulay wrote in The History of England:

“.. that no man could be imprisoned, even for a day, by the arbitrary will of the sovereign, that no tool of power could please the loyal command as a justification for violating any right of the humblest subject .. [these are] fundamental laws of the realm.” (History, Ch. 14)

According the Act of 2007, any sentence over 12 months results in immediate deportation. This young man is not equipped to make an appeal against his sentence on his own account. He is currently in prison, and has limited access to advice or the outside world. He cannot afford a legal appeal. He is effectively serving 18 months for throwing a stone aimed at nothing which hit nobody, after being assaulted by police and ordered to remain within a dangerous mob; and on release, he faces deportation to a country where he has no family, and which he left nearly a decade ago.

The sentence makes no sense. A judge should not have given this sentence for this crime. But this is why the judicial review into the Prime Minister seems to me to be necessary. At COBRA meetings through early August, and in public statements, Keir Starmer demonstrated to judges and police and lawyers, that the political stability of the country was at stake, and that judges must obey him, and give harsh sentences such as my acquaintance has received, or else. Swift justice would be applied, and, in his own words to the press on 1st August:

‘We will ramp up civil justice. There have already been hundreds of arrests, some have appeared in court this morning. I have asked for early consideration of the earliest naming and identification of those involved in the process who will feel the full force of the law.’

I will be seeking a review into how an individual, Keir Starmer, has abused his position of Prime Minister, so as to pressure the police forces of England and Wales; to push the CPS toward advocating for very harsh and extraordinary sentences; to force independent judges to award unusual sentences. In one case, these abuses will lead to the deportation or exile of a young man who has lived here since he was eleven years old, who has an exemplary character.

The Crown Prosecution Service works with the courts, to advise sentencing. And the Prime Minister directly briefed the CPS on sentencing and how to work with Crown Court judges, at his COBRA meetings through early August. That judges had no choice but to make extravagant sentences, was openly declared at the young man’s hearing; court officials told him that they no longer had any choice or independence. I believe that this needs to be looked into in a court, and I want to see Keir Starmer put on trial for using executive powers to interfere in justice.

I will be applying for a judicial review into the Prime Minister’s abuse of his temporarily held position. I cannot appeal for a reduction in the sentence of my acquaintance, because only a solicitor can do this; he cannot do it for himself; and the expense is too great for us to use the services of a solicitor. Besides, by the time the letter from the Home Office arrived, the period in which an appeal against the sentence could be made, had expired.

But I can petition the court to have the man who put us in the position investigated and tried for his crime. Therefore, it remains to ask the judiciary itself to examine the behaviour of the Prime Minister; that is: to have a hearing in which all of the sentences given after the Southport riots, all of the guilty verdicts, including the one of my acquaintance, are collectively reassessed, in the light of the unconstitutional activity of the Prime Minister.

I would like to hear from you within three weeks, telling me what you are going to do about my acquaintance. If you can bend the rules in such an obvious and ill-judged way, to suit Keir Starmer, then you will find it easy to see to it, that my friend is not thrown out of the country because of Keir Starmer’s activities. If I do not hear from you, I will begin proceedings, alleging that your party leader has abused his office. I will be hoping to bring criminal charges against him. To achieve this, I believe that a judicial review is the appropriate method, similar in character to the one brought against Alexander Boris Johnson, one of Keir Starmer’s predecessors.

The CPS, on its own website, says that its purpose is to: “Work closely with police, courts, the judiciary and other parties to deliver justice”. The Crown Prosecution Service is the public prosecutor, but not the state prosecutor. Mr Starmer has been using it as an arm of the executive power, in order to coerce it to prosecute individuals during a moment of national panic for which he is in part responsible, with the subsidiary aim of defaming his own personal opponents in politics.

He has also been dabbling in the judiciary, by means of pressure on the CPS and its advocacy in the court room, and prejudicing cases before they reach trial. There has also been pressure applied to police forces via the CPS, as was reported this week, respecting the delay in revealing the person who had committed the Southport murders, when the CPS ordered police forces to remain silent and not reveal information which might have made many rioters not bother rioting. We will be seeking information about what happened at the August 1st COBRA meeting, where it is likely that what happened will be revealed. Needless to say, the constitutional settlement of England and Wales needs to be protected against these abuses.

I have provided details of my acquaintance in attachments with this letter, his name, date of birth, and prison number.

I look forward to hearing from you in the near future, and potentially, if all else fails, relying on your help in the prosecution of a man who has done serious damage to the political settlement of the country.

Yours sincerely

Jason Powell

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