On 7th January, we exposed how rapidly the UK justice system is moving into dangerous territory. Recent cases reveal a pattern that should alarm anyone who believes in justice, fairness, proportionality and basic common sense.
We now live in a country where someone can receive a longer prison sentence for words posted online than another person receives for multiple proven sexual offences against a child. This is not merely an inconsistency or an unfortunate legal technicality. It represents a profound failure of justice, moral judgement and human conscience itself.
In one recent case discussed by barrister Daniel ShenSmith, a man convicted of seven serious sexual offences against an 11-year-old child—committed over a period of two years—was sentenced to just two and a half years in prison.
Meanwhile, Lucy Connolly received a longer custodial sentence for an online post.
Whatever legal distinctions the Establishment may use to explain this disparity, the fully evidenced reality remains impossible to ignore: sentencing outcomes have become detached from moral gravity, proportionality and real-world harm. A system that punishes words more severely than the repeated sexual abuse of a child is not delivering justice in any meaningful sense.
What makes this even more disturbing is the language authorities use when presenting such crimes to the public. Greater Manchester Police publicly described the victim as a “teenage girl”, despite the fact that she was 11 years old when the offences began—a child by every legal, moral and ordinary definition.
Why use language that obscures that essential reality? Whether through deliberate deception, institutional carelessness or a desire to soften public understanding, the effect is the same: the seriousness of the crime is diluted, and accountability is weakened. Words matter, particularly when they are chosen by institutions entrusted with protecting children and informing the public truthfully.
Judges are frequently presented as the public face of these sentencing failures. Yet the deeper issue lies in the guidelines created by the Sentencing Council. These guidelines allow—and in some circumstances encourage—leniency in extremely serious offences, while the same justice system demonstrates growing severity towards speech, expression and opinion.
This creates a judiciary increasingly driven to punish words while failing to confront violence and abuse with anything approaching the same force. That imbalance does not happen by accident. It reveals the Establishment’s priorities. When justice becomes selective—severe towards some and extraordinarily forgiving towards others—public confidence does not merely weaken. It collapses.
Yet who exactly is the Sentencing Council? Have you ever heard of it? Most likely not. Ask yourself why.
The Sentencing Council is an independent, non-departmental public body associated with the Ministry of Justice. But what does the public truly know about how it operates? Who sits on it? How are its decisions reached? How much scrutiny is applied to guidelines capable of producing such morally indefensible outcomes?
Why is public anger so often directed towards the figures placed visibly before us, while the largely unknown institutions shaping the system remain hidden from meaningful public examination? The Establishment presents convenient faces for blame while the bodies exercising deeper influence continue operating beyond ordinary public awareness.
We must pay far closer attention to authorities whose decisions carry such widespread consequences for all our lives. We must recognise when Establishment institutions manipulate their powers against ordinary citizens while shielding themselves from accountability.
Never accept the story or image presented on the surface. Look deeper. Enquire. Examine who holds the power, who creates the rules and who benefits when public attention is directed elsewhere.
Every lawful mechanism available must be used to expose and challenge these failures. Justice does not defend itself. When left unchecked, it does not merely fail—it is quietly reshaped until it no longer serves the people it exists to protect.
When justice stops making sense, it is not the public that is confused. It is the system that is broken.
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The more I look into the justice system, the more I realise it’s a “just is” system. i.e. “that’s just the way it is… because it just is”. So many rules, bodies, organisations set up to operate without the public’s understanding. The Sentencing Council? Never heard of them before reading this post. The more you look into these realities, the more you see how the system really is rigged, and it’s really not in the public interest. It’s set up in the interests of the so-called elite with the illusion of serving the public. Hence why we need Citizen Intervention Global.
My understanding of the justice system was always very limited, almost non existent, and the more I learn about it and the way it works, the clearer it becomes that it is actually an injustice system with different rules for different people.
It is disturbing that we are not being educated about powerful institutions like the Sentencing Council that make decisions with consequences for the whole population. These hidden power structures need to be exposed to stop the Establishment from controlling and abusing people.
It’s examples like this that very much corroborate with the writings of The Secret Barrister who gives an insightful insider view of the UK Judicial System. It is so unfit for purpose and in desperate need for reform.
Yet, the more I learn, the more I see that an unfit judicial system makes sense for the Establishment to have. This is because such a system can be weaponised and used as a means to exhaust as well as drain the resources of those the Establishment seeks to destroy…
This is disgusting. As the Secret Barrister says, until one has been through the “Justice System” one has no idea how unjust it actually is and how appalling the search for truth actually is. We can see the reality of this by these cases where the outcome is politically led – not human justice led.
How is there ANY way to justify such a disparity! It truly is madness and completely lacking in wisdom and when we live in a country that is being run on that basis, the country isn’t going to run for much longer before everything breaks down. But then, perhaps that is the Establishment’s plan all along? To welcome in a ‘great reset’! We the public will only be mocked, bullied and controlled to the degree we don’t realise that the real power is with us. We have the numbers and we have the power to prevent such abuses, what we need is transparency, education, involvement and accountability from independent citizen bodies. Something that Citizen Intervention is there to bring about.
This is absolutely horrific, and this is just one case among many.
It’s the same with the lack of reporting on the Rupert Lowe Rape Gang Inquiry. There seems to be a failure to bring the full extent of these issues into public view. If people are not fully informed about what is happening, meaningful action becomes much harder.
It is outrageous that situations like this can exist in what is supposed to be a democratic and civilised society. It is barbaric, to say the least.
Only our Lord can save us from this diabolical world. 🙏
Thank you for this article.
I have never heard of the Sentencing Council until now. It makes sense that is such a body, to unite judges decisions across the country and provide them with fair guidance, but like so many systems and good intentions, it also provides another means of control!
Now we are back to the question of ‘who watches the watchers?’
The way that the media can and does manipulate the public is diabolical. Using “Teenage Girl” wow, this is a child, teenager or not. She has been violated, and this needs to be published as such. The system is so wrong, getting a longer prison sentence just for posting something incorrect on social media than a person who has violated another human being…
Thank you for sharing this article. Yes, it has infuriated me, but towards the system and what needs to change. The record needs to be corrected…
This is appalling and I ought to not be surprised by such humane injustice anymore but I still am. Because I cannot believe that a social media post that was deleted after four hours is receiving equivalent time to abusing a child. The fact that this isn’t setting Commons into a frenzy to rectify this as quickly as possible shows me that they do not care about the welfare of children or have any intention of making sure that the sentencing council operate in a fair, reasonable and proportional way. Times like this make it feel desperate but we have to remember that nothing is a surprise to God and everything is happening exactly as He intended and the He will be bringing all things to God and those who are hurt and labouring under injustice will be vindicated and liberated from their suffering. Praise God for this hope
This article really challenged me to think more deeply about what justice is meant to look like. The contrast it draws is deeply sobering and raises important questions about proportionality, accountability and the values reflected in our legal system. It also made me realise how little most of us know about the institutions shaping these decisions. Thank you for another thought provoking article that encourages people to look beyond the surface and examine these issues more carefully.
I had not heard of the Sentencing Council until this article and I cannot believe “leniency” and “extremely serious offences” are mentioned in the same sentence! What do criminals have to fear when there are inappropriate consequences to their actions?!
There is nothing that justify or explain why someone is sentenced to a longer term of imprisonment for posting online than a convicted child abuser…absolutely nothing.
I pray for the healing of this child and that she is getting the help she needs. 🙏