Racial segregation is alive and well in London’s West End theatre district, where the producers of a new play thought it would be good and proper to put on performances exclusively for black people. (Or “black-identifying” people only, to be precise.)
Slave Play, starring Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington, will open for a three-month run at the Noel Coward Theatre in June. It came under heavy cr, iticism after announcing two “Black Out nights,” aimed at creating racially homogenous crowds that would be “free from the white gaze.”
Jeremy O Harris, the show’s playwright, said the nights would allow theatregoers “to feel safe with a lot of other black people in a place where they often do not feel safe.” Did he consider how excluding white theatregoers might make white people feel? Or, indeed, how black theatregoers would respond—not least since Harris assumes that black people would support this form of racial segregation?
Would Harris welcome a white public figure to call for ‘White Out nights,’ to allow white people “to feel safe with a lot of other [white] people in a place where they often do not feel safe?” Probably not.
Racial segregation is outlawed in Britain, which is why it doesn’t take much imagination to consider such thinking being applied to other everyday settings—schools, public transport—with disastrous results.
To get around laws against racial segregation, tickets were taken off general sale and made purchasable only through a unique code. Writing in Spiked, Thomas Osborne noted that “white—or indeed Jewish or Asian—Londoners will not be explicitly turned away at the door. But producers have tried to make it abundantly clear that they are not welcome for these two performances.”
Osborne added that the affair struck at the heart of “the great paradox of modern identitarianism.”
For all that the woke love to rage at the West’s racist past, they are the ones doing the most to try to revive its most regressive ideas. They are totally committed to dividing the world by race and viewing us all as racial beings.
After the government intervened, rather weakly describing the “Black Out nights” as “concerning,” one of the performances “vanished” from the production’s website, with the Mail describing the production as being in “chaos.”
Without realising it, Harris made matters worse still when he defended his reasoning by saying “black audiences and white audiences respond to things differently,” and “people have to be radically invited into a space to know that they belong there.”
The producers of the play said more details about the “Black Out nights” would be released “soon.”
UK’s Conservative Party has been in power for the last 14 years, and while they did leave de European Union in the long-delayed BREXIT movement, in many instances Tories have become simply Globalists.
They weakly bow to Brussels failed policies, and don’t fight the opposition Labour parties leftist lunacy with nearly the necessary vehemence.
That state of affairs has led to the emergence of the BREXIT party, that is now called the Reform UK.
Slowly but surely, the unabashedly right wing party founded by Nigel Farage has grown to become a real power alternative.
Now, it arises that Reform UK has hit its highest-ever polling support level in the aftermath of controversy over the suspension of MP Lee Anderson.
A YouGov survey published today (01) showed them at 14 percentage points – up one from the previous week.
As British ‘Tory’ Party Bows to Globalism, Reform UK Is Now Polling at 14%, Increasingly Becoming the Alternative to Conservative Voters via @gatewaypundithttps://t.co/wpOGmDTcm8
A trans-identified male who works for a UK-based charity to provide “diversity training” has been selected as a UN Women UK delegate to work with the United Nations Commission on the status of Women — despite his troubling history of publicly discussing his enjoyment at stealing his sister’s underwear in his youth.
Martin ‘Katie’ Neeves, who offers professional employment gender identity training services, prompted outcry on X after announcing his appointment to a role for women’s representation, with some critics pointing out his past admission of a fetishistic motivation for identifying as transgender.
“I’m happy to announce that I’ve been accepted as a UN Women UK delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women,” wrote Neeves.
I'm happy to announce that I've been accepted as a UN Women UK delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.@UNWomenUKpic.twitter.com/1h0EobEWHz
— Katie Neeves – Cool2BTrans – Trans Ambassador (@cool2btrans) February 29, 2024
In the footage, he can be heard describing how, as a youth, he would steal his sister’s “knickers” and try them on. Clips from the webinar were originally posted by Twitter user @SarahSurviving, who said she had been instructed by her employer to attend the webinar session.
“My earliest memories were of my mum catching me trying on a pair of my sister’s knickers. I remember when I did it, it felt so right. But then my mum came in, and she caught me and told me off,” says Neeves in one of the clips.
“In my childhood, I used to secretly dress in my sister’s clothes whenever I had the opportunity. And whenever I did it, it felt so right. But then those feelings of being right were very quickly overtaken by feelings of guilt, shame, and self-loathing. Because what I was doing was wrong, it was dirty, it was naughty, and not what respectable people did,” he continued.
A "trans ambassador" who is paid by NGO @en4ei to give talks on how to be an "ally" recently described dressing up in their sister's underwear during a training webinar. 'Katie' Neeves lobbies against single-sex spaces for women and claims to be on a @BBC transgender expert list. pic.twitter.com/oOMiOhTDKS
In January 2018, at the age of 48, Martin Neeves declared himself “Katie,” the alter-ego he says he used when crossdressing in private.
Neeves has on several occasions elaborated on how his crossdressing fetish led him to pursue a transgender identity. In an interview announcing his self-declared identity, Neeves told Leicester Live, “My earliest memory is when I was about three, I preferred to wear my sister’s knickers, not realising this was anything to bother about – until mum found out and chastised me.
“I still kept borrowing my sister’s clothes (and my girlfriend’s), in secret though, all through until my early 20s,” Neeves added.
The interview describes Neeves as having “soft skin” as a result of taking female hormones, and as “a naturally slightly-built person” with “an enviable figure.”
In 2019, Neeves recorded himself admonishing his sister for refusing to accept his gender identity. In the video, he reads a letter he had written to her to provoke her to respond.
“I’m writing to you to let you know how saddened I feel that I didn’t hear from you for my birthday… because it indicates to me that you don’t accept that I am transgender. That makes me very sad indeed. We were so close as children,” Neeves said.
In the leaked video clips of the 2022 Cool2BTrans training webinar, Neeves goes on to state that he now describes himself as a lesbian. “Previously, I was labeled as a heterosexual man, now I’m labeled as a lesbian… but obviously for my wife, her label hadn’t changed.”
Neeves had previously disclosed how his relationship with his wife deteriorated as a result of his sexual fetish. Speaking with Leicester Live, he describes the moment he confessed to his wife while watching a television program about a woman whose husband was a cross-dresser: “My wife at the time said jokingly, you’d never do that to me would you? I said, ‘well actually, I do’ … We patched it over and managed 13 years together but it was always there, and we finally divorced,” said Neeves.
Neeves decided to announce his new identity publicly and created a series of videos that he sent to all of his photography clients. In the videos, Neeves again tells of how he began crossdressing as a fetish and “envied the girls,” but began to “embrace” it as a hobby during his twenties.
Neeves explains that he was first able to “admit” to himself that he is actually a woman after consulting a “clairvoyant” who communicated with a “spirit.” He also has shared updates on his disappointment with his “boob growth” in a video he published to YouTube, telling viewers that “my breasts now are up to about an A, B cup — this is probably too much information, but what the hell.”
In a 2022 video, Neeves advocates for medically “transitioning” children via puberty-halting drugs in song format, while implicitly suggesting that children could begin the process as young as 3 years of age.
Neeves has claimed to be on “both ITV’s and the BBC’s lists of experts,” and has campaigned against women-only services and facilities.
Last September, Neeves was handed an Outstanding Female LGBTQIA+ Champion award, presented at the at the East and West Midlands Women’s Awards. According to its official website, the purpose of the Women’s Awards is “to raise awareness, recognize and honor the hard work and valuable contribution women of all cultures, communities, races, and beliefs, in all sectors make.”
In social media posts where Neeves shared the news, he also boasted about several other awards he’d received in the past twelve months.
“It’s been the most amazing year for me, as in the last 12 months I have won the British Diversity Awards Hero of the Year 2023, the Trans in the City Trans Community Champion Award 2022 and the This is Us Awards Training & Development Award 2023. Also, I was listed on the DIVA Power List 2023, I was a DIVA Awards Unsung Hero of the Year Finalist 2023 and I was named as a LinkedIn Top Voice as well as becoming a co-presenter of BBC Sounds series ‘Time for some LGBTea,’” Neeves wrote.
UN Women UK came under scrutiny from women’s rights groups and campaigners last month, after the news circulated that trans activist Munroe Bergdorf had been selected as a women’s delegate.
Bergdorf had previously been let go from a UK children’s charity over safeguarding concerns. The trans model had been hired as a campaigner for the UK National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NPSCC), but was removed from the role soon after when it was discovered that had invited children to message him privately on social media in a violation of safeguarding ethics.
During the controversy, it was uncovered that Bergdorf had posed for a professional photographer’s portrait series on “sex workers.” His portrait depicted him in the nude, and revealed that he had intact male genitals.
They are all between 16 and 17 years old and arrived in the south of the country on various migrant boats. They then travelled up the peninsula and arrived in Milan, where they were taken in by a home for unaccompanied minors near the “Bicocca” student district.
Milano, 7 rapine violente in 5 giorni alle fermate dei mezzi pubblici armati di bottiglie e coltelli: arrestati 6 minori #migranti, tutti egiziani e tunisini tra i 16 e 17 anni, ospiti di un centro di accoglienza. pic.twitter.com/awkP3jUdca
The gang, which consisted of six Egyptian and Tunisian “UMA” migrants, had made theft and robbery their daily bread. They roamed the corridors of the Milan underground or near bus stops, looking for individuals to beat up and rob. They were systematically armed with knives and broken bottles so that they could quickly subdue their victims. One student tried to defend himself against the robbery but was brutally beaten with a bottle. The young student escaped with 20 days sick leave. Investigators attested to seven robberies committed by the gang between late November and early December 2023, but the gang likely committed many more offences.
Five of the perpetrators were sent to the juvenile detention centres in Milan and Naples. One of them is still on the run and is being actively searched for by the police. Milano Today
A 39-year-old man of no fixed abode was arrested by police forces in Nancy on the night of the 27th to 28th February 2024. According to a police source, he had made threatening remarks in the L’Ambassy bar in Rue Stanislas (…).
Inside the bar, the person made friends with the customers and managed to get paid for his drinks. When he went to leave the bar, he shouted “Allah akbar” and claimed he was going to get a machine gun. When he returned to the bar without a weapon, he managed to get drinks bought for him again. Before he left the bar for good, he shouted “Al-Qaida, they’re the greatest!”.
Outside, the man attacked some young men and threatened to burn their motorbikes. He also hit cars parked in the neighbourhood several times with his fists. (…)
As there were no terrorist threats, the man will probably be prosecuted for making death threats.
Jordan Bardella, head of National Rally (RN) in France, presented his party’s strategy for June’s European Parliament elections, “clarifying” its intentions regarding the European Union.
While RN is leading in the polls, its opponents often accuse the party of being extremist and secretly wanting to leave the EU under a so-called “Frexit”.
In his presentation, Bardella appeared to want to make clear what his group really desires.
On February 29, during a press conference dubbed “100 days to win!”, the party leader laid out a “tricolour strategy”, where green stands for European co-operation it approves, orange for what it wants to change and a red for what are its “hard No Go’s”.
European projects supported by Bardella and RN are, for example, the Erasmus student exchange programme, which he has cited as “the pooling of the material resources of the Civil Protection”, and “industrial, economic and scientific co-operation on major projects for the future”.
Changes sought include those to do with free movement within the Schengen area, which he said he wanted to be “exclusively reserved” for European nationals. RN also is critical of the single-market model and advocates for a “[favouring of] our companies at the national level”.
The party draws red lines on issues regarding “sovereignty”, such as migration, energy, diplomacy and defence “including the ownership of our nuclear deterrent”.
On immigration, RN demands a national referendum.
The enlargement of the EU and dropping Member States’ unanimity voting in favour of qualified majority decision-making are also “No Go’s” for the right-wing nationalists.
Bardella referred to these ideas and the EU Green Deal as “suicidal”.
(En direct) Conférence de presse : présentation des axes de campagne.Conférence de presse : présentation des axes de campagne. https://t.co/jiybaT3lNv
If the RN wins big, it will push to “rewrite the European treaties”, he added.
The primary focus seems to be at the national level. “The vote on June 9 is an opportunity for the French people to put a stop to the increasingly palpable drift of the presidency,” Bardella stated.
“This vote is of vital importance and will also provide a clear debate between two major conceptions of Europe,” he said, referring to what he called “fanaticism from Brussels”.
“For five years, the MEP delegation has fought tooth-and-nail to defend France and protect the French people, within the limits of the powers granted to the opposition,” Bardella said.
“We have been the French people’s watchdog against the European Commission.”
He depicted the French President Emmanuel Macron as a “stooge” for the European powers: “Macron and [EC President] Ursula von der Leyen are two sides of the same coin: ‘Vonderleyism’ is the parent company, ‘Macronism’ is the regional branch,” Bardella said.
“They are partners in action and partners in results.”
Such Vonderleyism, he continued, enacted with the Green Deal “a policy of energy decline … industrial decline … and agricultural decline”.
“The culmination of this ‘tricolor’ strategy aims to redefine the basis of a new treaty that will be that of the ‘European Alliance of Nations’.”
He did stress that RN wanted to change things, not destroy them. There was no “public or hidden” Frexit being prepared, he insisted.
“You don’t leave the gaming table when you’re winning the game”, Bardella noted, referring to polls that indicate right-wing gains across Europe in the upcoming Parliament elections.
In France, RN is set to win and become the biggest in political force in country, while Macron’s Renaissance party is polling poorly.
Anti-Semitic sign in Toronto, Photo by BlazingCatFur
“Islamophobia” seems to be everywhere these days – or at least accusations of it. What does it mean?
Too often it leads to silencing people who have questions about Islam and its teachings. I don’t know of any laws preventing people from criticizing or questioning Christianity or Judaism – in Judaism it seems that what is said is based on context!
Remember Prof. Gray, who when asked whether pro-Palestinian student activists calling for “Jewish genocide” violated Harvard’s code of conduct on harassment claimed it would depend on the context. Deduction: If Jews are actually being killed, that is probably the proper context.
In 2015, Eric Brazau, not particularly fond of Islam, decided to run an experiment on free speech on a Toronto Subway. He, another fellow in Israeli colours and carrying an Israeli flag, and another acquaintance who videoed the proceedings, got on the subway where Mr. Brazau began loudly denouncing Islam and its holy book, the Koran. He did this around the time Israel was at war with Gaza (yes, Gaza is not a new enemy of Israel).
Seems a passenger was so offended he pulled the emergency cord. The subway was stopped at the next station and police brought in. Mr. Brazau was charged for his actions on the subway. He was denied bail before his trial and was held in custody from his arrest that day, July 29, for five months and nine days.
Ontario Court Judge, Gerald Lapkin, slapped him with breach of the peace (for interfering with Toronto Transit Commission service – the subway was delayed 30 minutes), and causing a disturbance ( using insulting language). A female passenger had testified she had felt intimidated, though not in danger. She had shared her views, too. Judge Lapkin was not impressed. He snapped, “Language can be a weapon, too.”
Now, this was not Brazau’s first interaction with the court over his views on Islam. After Hillary Clinton’s apology in 2012 for the film that “caused” the riots that started in Benghazi, Brazau had distributed fliers at Dundas Square in Toronto, and on the Ryerson Campus, now called the Toronto Metropolitan University. He was heard shouting:
“I do this in support of free speech & artistic expression. This is my expression.”
What is Koran 9.5?
But once the Sacred Months have passed, kill the polytheists wherever you find them, capture them, besiege them, and lie in wait for them on every way. But if they repent, perform prayers, and pay alms-tax, then set them free. Indeed, Allah is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
For all of Brazau’s actions, Judge Lapkin gave him 20 months; 5 for mischief, 5 for causing a disturbance and 10 for breach of the probation. As well as a jail sentence, Brazau was given two years on probation.
“You had a ticket to ride. Not a pass to harass”
Ironically, Mr. Brazau said that as his “social experiment” on the subway began that day, “me and this other gentleman were having a conversation about whether we could [even] have the conversation.” And they discovered that they could not.
Today, in 2024, there seems to be a double standard in Toronto. Although Brazau was charged because language can be a weapon, those calling for the extermination of Israel and the Jews are allowed to speak whatever they want and protest anywhere – without fear. The October, 2023 barbaric massacre of Jews in Israel by Muslims from Gaza led to full-throated Muslim protests.
At York University in Toronto, student unions shared a statement; less than a week after Hamas fighters stormed into Israeli communities in a brutal rampage that killed an estimated 1,200 people, including children. They called the Oct. 7 attack “a strong act of resistance” by the Palestinian Arabs, while affirming their right to “self-determination and liberation.”
So, rape and burning people alive and decapitating babies is now resistance. Free speech? Not: “Language can be a weapon, too.”
Guess it depends on context.
At Toronto Metropolitan University, a group of law students posted a letter praising “all forms of Palestinian Arab resistance,” following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, which also saw the militant group drag back an estimated 240 hostages into Gaza.
The director of the centre for free expression at TMU, James Turk, commenting only on the tensions at York University, said that “when it comes to free speech, you have a right to say what you want as long as it’s not contrary to the law.” Hmmm. What happened to “Language can be a weapon, too”?
Toronto4Palestine, a full-throated supporter of the Oct. 7 attacks, was one of many groups behind blockades. The group handed out candy and coordinated celebratory rallies only hours after the first reports of civilian massacres emerged from Israel.
Hmm. This is OK. This is free speech? “Not a breach of the peace”? Or “Language can be a weapon, too”?
There were protests in Toronto Malls against Israel that also interfered with Christmas!
Muslim protesters were using megaphones to share their views in Yorkdale Mall, a major mall in Toronto.
Here is an eye witness account:
A couple had come to the Mall with their 8 year old daughter.
“Imagine 50 people screaming at you, all at once, some with megaphones. All because you continued doing what people come to the mall to do, walk and patronize the mall. It was scary.” The protesters could be heard shouting “genocide supporters” and telling the couple they are “disgusting.”
“Nobody was confronting them,” said Brown. “Nobody was yelling back. Nobody was walking through. Everyone was just standing, hundreds of people standing around, including the cops and the security.” In fact, protesters were threatening police. “I’ll put him on the ground. You come near I’ll put you lay down on the floor (sic) … I’ll put you six feet deep.” The camera then swings to take in the police, who look at one another as the man moves on.
Hmmm
How is this different from Brazau’s behaviour? Other than magnified many times over?
What happened to “Breach of the peace”? “Language can be a weapon, too”?
Muslims blocked traffic while praying at Bay and Wellington: the heart of the business district.
What happened to “Breach of the Peace”?
Thousands were protesting. They blocked roads in Toronto’s Jewish communities: Men clad in keffiyehs led Muslim prayer services right in the middle of roads approaching the bridge. The demonstrators, blockading the roads, waved Palestinian flags and one called the neighborhood a “Zionist-infested area”
At one protest the police provided coffee for the protesters!
The protester who received the coffee said that somebody had bought the coffee for them, but were unable to bring it to the bridge protesters as police were restricting access.
What happened to “Breach of the Peace”? “Language can be a weapon, too”?
“The police are becoming our little messengers,” said the grinning man wearing black jacket and keffiyeh.
February 4, 2024, Pro Hamas supporters blocked traffic in downtown Toronto (without a permit) and called for dismantling all Jewish/Zionist Organizations and the destruction of Israel.“Palestine will be free form the River to the Sea.”
“Breach of the Peace”? “Language can be a weapon, too”?
These are people blockading streets and intersections to the disadvantage of people trying to make their way “to and fro.” Compare their treatment – nothing – with the man who spoke loudly on a subway.
The subway was stopped to remove him.
There was one police action related to the Avenue Road blockades. A 58-year-old woman carrying an Israeli flag who was reportedly caught on camera making a throat-slitting gesture was arrested and charged with “Uttering Threats/Death or Bodily Harm.” What happened to those calling a Jewish community a Zionist-infested area? Seems that is “Okay” and Muslim protesters are let go.
What happened to breach of the peace? The weaponizing of language?
Double standard in Toronto. And Britain, the US – everywhere else in the West.
The astronomical costs involved with the U.K.’s Rwanda deportation scheme have been laid bare in a new report by the government’s spending watchdog which revealed that each migrant sent to the West African nation will set the British taxpayer back at least £171,000 (€200,000).
According to the National Audit Office (NAO) report published on Friday, the British government has paid Rwanda £220 million already through the Economic Transformation and Integration Fund (ETIF), which is designed to support economic growth in the country, despite not sending a single migrant to Kigali.
Three further payments of £50 million will be paid annually up to 2027 and an additional payment of £120 million will be sent under the Migration and Economic Development Partnership once Rwanda has relocated 300 migrants from Britain.
One-off payments of £20,000 will be paid for every migrant received by the country with a further £150,874 per individual paid over five years for processing and operational costs.
The financial arrangement could see the British government pay £541 million (€632 million) to relocate just 300 migrants — a cost to the British taxpayer of £1.8 million (€2.1 million).
These are just the costs to the Rwandan government and do not factor in the accommodation costs ahead of deporting migrants arriving in Britain, any legal fees, or flight costs — the latter of which the Home Office estimates to be at around £11,000 per migrant, including fuel and chartering planes.
The Home Office also estimates future costs of £12.6 million this year to train staff escorting migrants to the African nation followed by £1 million per year in staffing costs, and also revealed it had spent £15.3 million in set-up costs already, a figure that would rise to £23.5 million by the end of the year.
In defense of the scheme, a Home Office spokesperson said that action to deport illegal migrants was never going to be “without significant costs.”
“Unless we act, the cost of housing asylum seekers is set to reach £11 billion per year by 2026. Illegal migration costs lives and perpetuates human trafficking, and it is therefore right that we fund solutions to break this unsustainable cycle.
“We have a strong relationship with Rwanda and both sides remain absolutely determined to deliver on this partnership,” they added.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is scrambling to pass through key legislation to make deportation flights a reality ahead of the next general election which must take place within the next ten months. His government’s Safety of Rwanda Bill is currently with the House of Lords — Britain’s upper chamber in its bicameral parliament.
Following the surge of illegal migrant activity on England’s southern shores in recent years, the U.K. government is currently spending close to £7 million per day on housing migrants who arrive illegally into the country before claiming asylum.
Sunak has made “stopping the boats” one of his government’s central pledges.
A student wanted to draw attention to the double standards in dealing with hatred towards Jews – now he is facing criminal proceedings.
Wednesday morning, student David Duhme’s doorbell rings and police officers are standing there. They explain to him that he is a defendant in proceedings for the use of symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organisations. Duhme had published a caricature on social media in which he highlighted the double standards in dealing with various forms of eliminatory hatred of Jews.
The post in question has since been deleted.
The message summarised: If Nazis want to exterminate Jews, that’s terrible; if Hamas terrorists want the same, many on the left are happy to support it.
Because he had used the swastika symbol in the caricature he published on X, the police came to his home.
The NIUS portal asked the Berlin public prosecutor’s office who initiated the proceedings. A spokesperson responded that “the proceedings were initiated by the Federal Criminal Police Office on the basis of the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG)”. It is currently unclear whether the post was reported by another X user under the Network Enforcement Act.
On 15th July 2023, a dedicated Irish catholic man identified as James Donnelly, 45, was brutally murdered by a 22-year-old Islamic convert identified as Leo Pryce for being a ‘kafir’. The accused back then was reported to have carried a Quran and yelled ‘Allah-hu-Akhbar’ while murdering the victim in West London. He shot the video and also boasted about the murder to the workers of the Darussalam Masjid Mosque which he had visited immediately after murdering the victim.
The Old Bailey Court in London on 29th February 2024 pronounced punishment to the accused in the case who admitted to manslaughter. During the hearing on Thursday (29th February), the court affirmed that the accused had boasted about the murder to the mosque workers and had shown them the recorded video of the murder.
“An Islamic convert alarmed workers at a local mosque by boasting about a video he had shot of a dedicated Catholic’s body after stabbing him to death. The body of James Donnelly, 45, was discovered by his elderly aunt with slash marks on his neck and a cross on his chest in July 2023,” the court noted.
As per the reports, the accused, Leo Pryce, 22, admitted to manslaughter, charges of assaulting emergency personnel, and possessing a weapon or point. He told mosque staff that Donnelly, a brilliant musician, was a ‘Kafir’ (infidel) and a ‘Dajjal’ (anti-christ). The killer also yelled “Allahu Akbar” as police used weapons to arrest him.
However, Pryce contested the murder, claiming diminished culpability owing to his mental state, and his pleas were accepted. Donnelly, from County Tipperary, fought in the Irish Army and was a member of Ireland’s UN Peacekeeping Force. He found peace in his faith and led group visits to the Lourdes shrine. Last summer, police were called to his home on Station Road in Hayes, West London.
Here’s how James was murdered last year
Prosecutor Caroline Carberry KC stated in court that James Donnelly was originally from County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland. He had been living with his 87-year-old aunt, Winnie Corrigan, in Hayes for some years. On July 15, 2023, the accused murdered the victim at his Station Road address.
Winnie Corrigan discovered her nephew’s murdered body on the floor of his bedroom at around 9 am the next day. James was dressed and lying face up on his bedroom floor with a deadly knife wound across his neck. He was also stabbed in the eye.
A crucifix had been placed on his chest, and a knife was held in his left hand. Corrigan devastated, ran out into the street to inform a neighbor that her nephew had been slain, and then the police were called.
She told the court that Pryce, who had recently converted to Islam, was spotted in the victim’s garden at 12.45 am on the day of the murder, covered in a long white robe, and that his car was seen leaving the property at 7.40 am via Ring doorbell road.
He had been observed visiting the property in the weeks before the murder, and “it would appear that the defendant and James were relatively recent acquaintances.” Following evening prayers at the Darussalam Masjid Mosque on the day of the death, Pryce informed workers of the incident and showed them a video on his phone.
“The video depicted James Donnelly pinned to the floor with wounds to his neck, his eye, and his head,” Carberry said. “He was clearly deceased,” she added.
Copy of Quran was recovered from the accused
When the police were contacted at 2.45 am the next morning, some of the workers at the Mosque had videotaped the accused discussing the killing and had given those clips along to the cops.
In those clips, the defendant speaks about cutting the man’s throat and staring at his soul. He alludes to “Kafir,” which means infidel, and claims that the man has “one eye,” possibly referring to the stab wound to one of his eyes, and that he has “Kafir written on his forehead.”
He said he murdered the “Dajjal,” which means anti-Christ. He also branded James a “Shaitan,” which means evil spirit, and claimed that God was assisting and guiding him. The prosecutor stated that when police detained Pryce in his car at 3.30 am on July 16 last year, they discovered a ‘cleaver-type knife’ and a copy of the Quran next to him on the passenger seat.
The accused repeatedly uttered ‘Allah-hu-Akhbar’
When police discovered him, he was sleeping in the driver’s seat of his car parked on Hayes Road near the mosque. Carberry went on to say, “He was removed from the car but resisted arrest, prompting the use of Tasers.” He was heard repeatedly uttering “Allahu Akbar” and “God is great”.
The prosecutor stated that after being taken to the Acton Custody Suite, he appeared ‘agitated’ and rocked back and forth while repeating Quranic passages. After being treated for minor injuries, he hit two officers in the head as they returned him to his cell.
She told the court that one of the cops “punched back in self-defense,” but described the defendant as easily dominating him with a degree of aggression he had never seen before.
Pryce claimed that he came across Donnelly at Asda when he was performing and tried to convince him to convert to Islam. He directed him to pray and drove him home in his car. However, he denied visiting the victim’s home and stated that ‘he would not have touched a crucifix since it’s a symbol of idolatry.
Carberry stated that Pryce was schizophrenic and suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. “He continues to experience psychotic symptoms despite receiving treatment,” she stated “Experts unanimously conclude that but for his paranoid schizophrenia, he would not have carried out the brutal attack on James Donnelly.”
In a victim impact statement delivered in court, the victim’s sister, Fiona Ryan, stated, “We have had a son and brother taken from us before his time. The cruelty with which he was killed will leave a lasting impression on our thoughts and hearts.” She concluded by saying, “Our lives will never be the same again since James was taken from us.” All we seek is for the justice that JJ deserves.
Judgement by the Court
“The unopposed conclusion of the experts suggests there is an inextricable link between the defendant’s illness and the offenses. There is in my view a significant reduction in the need for punishment. If Pryce had not been ill he would not have committed these offences. This illness arose suddenly and without warning,” Judge Sarah Whitehouse KC was quoted as saying.
“I am satisfied you are suffering from a mental disorder, namely paranoid schizophrenia, and this disorder is of such a nature that makes it appropriate for you to be detained in hospital for medical treatment,” she added sentencing Pryce.
She also stated that due to the risk of significant harm he posed to the public, she was adding a further condition to the hospital order, which would require him to be closely watched if and when he appeared fit to be removed from the hospital. He has been put under an indefinite hospital order with restrictions under sections 37 and 41 of the Mental Health Act 1983. Doctors now will determine when, if ever, he should be released.
