The System™ On Which We Are Supposed to Rely - UK Edition

Rely for our safety, that is.

Conditions are even worse in the UK, because you are not allowed to defend yourself. You are certainly not allowed to own anything that might enable self-defense. And The System™ will not protect you. How could lover who held me hostage soon be free to live in my village? | Daily Mail Online

This is a fairly typical story of domestic violence. It starts out good. Then it isn't good. Then it is bad. Then she leaves. He doesn't react well.

Gareth, however, refused to accept it was over and began a campaign of stalking.

He’d watch me from the road or lie in wait for me at the farmhouse. When I finally summoned the courage to call the police, he was arrested for harassment and menacing behaviour.

In fact, over a three-week period, he was arrested twice more, but devastatingly the CPS decided no further action should be taken, and his campaign continued.

So for menacing and harassment he was jailed for much less than 3 weeks. Are we surprised? Then things got bad.

Oh, and he was threatening her childern during this time, but police couldn't be bothered to follow up.

He showed up with a gun - in gun-free UK? Color me shocked! - and held her hostage, threatened to kill her, to kill himself. Eventually he drove her to a doctor's appointment that she had scheduled.

He followed me to the surgery —but finally, alone in the GP’s room, I could tell someone what was happening. The police were called, the surgery was locked down and Gareth was arrested as he waited for me in the car park.

So for kidnapping and threatening, and having a gun in gun-free Britain, (no longer Great Britain) and the existence of security camera video to prove he was lying about some stuff, he was sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison with 25 percent reduction for his guilty plea. Oh they sentenced hin to 20 years, but a bunch of the time is concurrent.

Gareth has since been jailed for a total of 20 years on five different charges including making threats to kill and false imprisonment.

But with concurrent sentencing and a 25 per cent reduction owing to his guilty plea, he is serving four and a half in prison and five on licence.

Recently, I learned that he had been transferred back to prison from the medium-secure psychiatric unit where he was being held. That means he could be considered for parole as early as August 2022.

And so he will be free to restart his campaign of terror. Do you think he learned a lesson? Do you think 3 years is long enough for all of this? All of this took place in August of 2019.

This the future that the gun-hating Left want to import into the US. Where the small are at the mercy of the large. Where the old and the infirm are at the mercy of the young and the violent. Because self-defense is icky, or something, and you should just rely on "The System," the very same system that the Left wants to defund.