https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/a_uniquely_british_sense_of_justice.html
On May 25, human rights activist and journalist Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) was arrested while live-streaming at a trial of accused sex-traffickers. He was literally grabbed off the street by seven police officers; thrown in a van; and carted off to a waiting courtroom and judge, where he was sentenced to 13 months – a dangerous sentence, considering the prison population and his forthright stand against abuse of young girls by predominantly Muslim rape gangs.
The whole process took approximately four hours and went forward without Robinson having his own counsel present. He has since been transferred to different prisons and has remained in solitary confinement as the only means to prevent an attempt on his life in these prisons.
In mid-June, his family, with help from friends, hired attorneys to act for him – who filed an appeal, asking for bail to be set and a re-hearing.
Today we learn that this long awaited appeal hearing has been canceled. No, Robinson isn’t the holdup. After all, he’s been ready to have his side heard since May 25.
Nope. The Crown counsel is not “ready.” The counsel needs “more time to prepare.” This is remarkable.
It took these people a mere four hours to whisk the man off the public sidewalk in front of the Leeds public courthouse and throw him unceremoniously into one of Her Majesty’s prisons. Maybe they should have allowed time for him to “prepare” – meaning at least get his own lawyer into the courtroom. But sentencing a man to 13 months in a dangerous prison seems a minor thing.