UK: Trans activist sentenced to prison after threatening to murder girls at three schools

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A UK trans activist has been sentenced to jail time after he sent emails to three all-girls schools threatening to “shoot and stab all of your girls” in revenge for alleged “oppression” of “trans women” — that is, trans-identifying men.

On June 1, 21-year-old Darren Rigby was sentenced to two years and four months in prison for sending threats to Holly Lodge Girl’s College and The Belvedere Academy in Liverpool and Greenbank High School in Southport. Holly Lodge’s Girl’s College got the threats on January 19, triggering a lockdown. Greenbank got a similar email on January 23, Belvedere on January 26.

Rigby, who confessed to the threats in court, is also subject to a restraining order for all three schools. He appeared to have had no prior contact with the schools or anyone affiliated with them; he had targeted them merely because they were girls-only institutions. He was also sentenced for possession of cannabis and a weapon.

Oddly, almost none of the mainstream coverage — including the BBC — gives any details of Rigby’s threats, referring to them only as “hoax emails.” Reduxx reported that the messages included a threat to “shoot and stab all of your girls” and referred to the female students as “TERFs” (trans exclusionary radical feminists):

In the first incident, which occurred on January 19, Rigby claimed he was already hiding inside the Holly Lodge Girls’ College in West Derby and waiting to attack. The only way to prevent students from being slaughtered, Rigby said, would be for the women and girls to make a public apology to “trans women.” Police were called and the school was forced to shut down for the day.

In the email to Greenbank High School, Rigby once again threatened to massacre girls in revenge for “misgendering trans women like me,” writing:

I am on my way to the school with a revolver and a machete and I’m going to shoot and stab all of your girls. You TERFs are going to learn to stop mocking, deadnaming and misgendering transwomen like me. If anyone attempts to stop me, they will be shot and I will release a blood agent into the school which will poison you.”

According to head teacher Davina Aspinall, the email made her feel “physically sick” and “children were crying, shaking, asking if they were going to be harmed, asking if the threat was real.” The final email, sent to Belvedere, was similarly graphic and also triggered a lockdown:

I have managed to gain access to the school and I’m now hiding somewhere in the school with a crossbow and a sword. When your girls come into school I will be jumping out. I’m going to kill every girl and woman staff member I come across.

Although Rigby clearly claimed to be a “transwoman” in his emails, the court identified him as male — which did not stop his defense attorney from referring to his transgender identity in an attempt to sympathetically contextualize his crimes.

“It’s clear from the defendant’s own admissions, the difficulties of internal struggles he felt led to the impulsive responses in sending these messages … (but) his issues with injustice, turmoil and confrontation with himself were heightened by cannabis use and heavy alcohol consumption,” she told the Court. “It is not pleasant for any person to hear whispers from others calling them names, putting them in boxes and stereotyping them. That is something Mr. Rigby needs to come to terms with and understand how to deal with.”

In other words, Rigby’s crimes were fueled by his belief that “injustice” was being done to trans-identifying people and that “misgendering” or “deadnaming” were unfortunate triggers for a volatile young man. This, too, was ignored in virtually all of the mainstream media coverage — as well as how Rigby might have been radicalized into believing that violence against girls on behalf of the transgender cause was justified.

“I sincerely hope that our investigation and the arrest of Rigby only days after the third incident was reported shows how extremely seriously we take these reports,” Detective Chief Inspector John Black stated. “Rigby clearly intended to cause fear and alarm not only for staff and children at the three schools but also parents and the wider community.”

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Spanish judge weighs charging Sánchez’s Socialists as criminal organisation

An investigating judge at Spain’s National Court (Audiencia Nacional) has signalled he may charge the governing Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) as a criminal organisation, a move that could in theory lead to the party’s dissolution.

Santiago Pedraz is examining whether the PSOE, led by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, can be held criminally liable as a legal person in the so-called Ferraz cloacas (“sewers”) case. The inquiry centres on an alleged network said to have worked to derail judicial proceedings affecting the party or the Spanish Government.

On May 27 the Civil Guard’s Central Operative Unit (UCO) entered the PSOE’s national headquarters on Calle Ferraz in Madrid to seize documents. Officers also searched the homes of former organisation secretary Santos Cerdán in Milagro, northern Spain, and of the veteran Andalusian Socialist Gaspar Zarrías.

During the operation the UCO took the party’s regulatory-compliance programme for 2024 and 2025 and asked who had overseen it. Legal sources cited by Libertad Digital described the request as the customary step before a legal entity is charged.

The inquiry grew out of the wider corruption cluster around Sánchez’s former inner circle. Cerdán, once the party’s number three, resigned and gave up his seat in June 2025 and spent nearly five months in pre-trial detention in the related Koldo case before his conditional release that November.

PAYMENTS AND THE ‘FIXER’

At the heart of the case are payments of €4,000 a month allegedly made to Leire Díez, a former Socialist official described as the party’s “fixer”. Investigators believe the sums were disguised through false invoices issued by Ana María Fuentes, manager of the organisation secretariat.

On June 1 Pedraz partially lifted the secrecy order on the case. In his account the PSOE is said to have financed the network with at least €188,000, money allegedly used to dig up compromising material on prosecutors, Civil Guard officers and judges, according to Libertad Digital.

Among the named targets were the chief anti-corruption prosecutor, Alejandro Luzón, and judges handling cases close to Sánchez, including the proceedings against his wife, Begoña Gómez, and his brother, David Sánchez. Investigators say the UCO logged 22 meetings between Díez and Cerdán at the party’s Madrid base.

PARTY STRUCTURE ‘AT ITS DISPOSAL’

In his ruling Pedraz wrote that Cerdán, as organisation secretary, would have placed the party’s own structure at the disposal of the alleged criminal group, which he said had relied on PSOE premises, staff and logistics from the outset.

Pedraz is investigating Cerdán, Díez, Zarrías, businessman Javier Pérez Dolset and lawyer Ismael Oliver on suspicion of criminal organisation, bribery, revealing secrets, influence peddling, falsifying commercial documents and crimes against State institutions, among other offences.

Cerdán has rejected the accusations, saying the aim of the inquiry is to destroy people the authorities find inconvenient.

A SECOND FRONT

The party could face a parallel threat. Another National Court judge, Ismael Moreno, is examining alleged illegal financing, raising the prospect of separate proceedings against the PSOE.

Under Spain’s penal code, legal persons may be held criminally responsible when an offence is committed on their behalf and for their benefit. Penalties range from fines to the suspension of activities for up to five years, exclusion from public contracts and subsidies and, in the gravest cases, dissolution.

It would not be the first time the courts have approached the question of the party’s own liability, although no Spanish party of government has been dissolved on such grounds.

PRESSURE IN BRUSSELS

The cluster of investigations has begun to weigh on Sánchez’s standing among Europe’s centre-left, where he leads one of the few remaining progressive governments seated on the European Council. Iratxe García, who heads the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group in the European Parliament, has so far stayed silent on the affair, according to Escudo Digital.

At home the row has spilled into a confrontation over the courts. Spain’s judicial council protested last week after government figures accused investigating judges of mounting a “judicial coup”.

The PSOE has denied any wrongdoing and has cast the investigations as politically motivated. Party spokeswoman Montse Mínguez said it was not “afraid of justice”, arguing that cases damaging the Socialists advanced faster than those affecting the opposition People’s Party (PP).

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UK: NHS doctors ‘pressured not to section psychotic black patients due to fears of appearing racist’

The matter has attracted intense scrutiny during the ongoing Nottingham Inquiry examining Valdo Calocane’s fatal attacks | NOTTINGHAMPSHIRE POLICE

NHS psychiatrists are being discouraged from detaining psychotic black patients under the Mental Health Act amid concerns about appearing racist.

Nine serving and former NHS mental health professionals have come forward to report experiencing pressure to reduce the number of black individuals they section, in an effort to address perceived over-representation in detention statistics.

The health service has been accused of introducing positive discrimination measures in response to data showing black people are 3.5 times more likely to face compulsory detention than their white counterparts.

Medical professionals have condemned these approaches as “scientific illiteracy” and accused policymakers of “jumping on bandwagons”, according to an investigation by The Telegraph.

One former NHS doctor stated: “Once a patient has psychosis, we shouldn’t perform sociology, we should perform medicine.”

Psychiatrists have warned that elevated detention rates among black patients stem not from institutional racism but from underlying risk factors including social deprivation, living circumstances and patterns of migration.

Medical professionals argue the term “over-representation” carries moral implications that obscure the complex reality of mental health disparities.

They point to multiple contributing factors beyond alleged NHS prejudice, such as family breakdown, exclusion from education, absent fathers and cannabis consumption.

Prof Sir Robin Murray, a leading psychosis researcher at King’s College London, acknowledged “political pressure” exists to lower sectioning rates for black individuals.

However, he emphasised that health conditions affect different racial groups in distinct ways, noting that black people face heightened risks of both sickle cell anaemia and prostate cancer without accusations of racism being levelled at specialists treating those conditions.

The matter has attracted intense scrutiny during the ongoing Nottingham Inquiry examining Valdo Calocane’s fatal attacks on students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, and caretaker Ian Coates, in June 2023.

Calocane, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, had repeatedly declined medication yet was not detained following a previous violent episode, with mental health staff citing the “over-representation of black men” in custody as justification.

A former physician who worked at the same trust treating Calocane revealed that regulators visited his ward shortly before the killings and informed him there were too many black patients present.

Several doctors drew parallels with the Rotherham grooming gangs scandal, where police failed to intervene against predominantly south Asian perpetrators due to fears of racism accusations.

Psychiatrists contend that restricting detentions based on race ultimately harms the very patients these policies aim to protect, denying them essential care while simultaneously elevating risks to public safety.

Prof Murray drew an analogy with cancer treatment, telling the Telegraph: “It’s akin to saying that it’s very unfortunate that so many black patients are having treatment for prostate cancer, so we should decrease the number having operations.

“Black people have an increased risk of sickle cell anaemia and prostate cancer: we’re not saying urologists are racist.”

Peter Carter, formerly chief executive of the Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust, described decisions not to detain black patients on racial grounds as “indefensible” and “racist,” insisting clinicians “must be held to account.”

An epidemiology professor warned that attributing all detention disparities to institutional racism “doesn’t pass the sniff test” and risks denying treatment to those genuinely requiring it.

Lord Sewell, who chaired the 2020 Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, accused UK public health research of being “captured by American critical race theory” and influenced by activists promoting “urban myths” regarding the treatment of black men.

“For too long we have listened to race activists who have said that black men are being locked up because the system is racist,” Lord Sewell told The Telegraph.

He argued that community orders frequently provide young men with positive outcomes, though such stories remain overshadowed by negative narratives.

Swaran Singh, an NHS consultant and Warwick University psychiatry professor, maintained that treatment decisions should be guided by clinical requirements rather than ethnicity.

“A diagnosis of serious mental illness should not become a shield that allows people to repeat offences just because they have a mental illness,” Prof Singh said.

GB News has approached NHS England for comment.

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Entire British Fleet of Attack Submarines Is Docked and Incapable of Combat, in New Humiliation for Royal Navy

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‘Oh, Britannia, Britannia rules the seas’ – not.

We have been reporting here on TGP on how the British armed forces – particularly its once legendary Royal Navy – is depleted and unprepared for war.

Yesterday, a shocking report arose saying that the entire fleet of hunter-killer submarines is ‘stuck in port, unable to sail’ – leaving Britain at risk from today’s threats.

Daily Mail reported:

“In a fresh humiliation for Britain’s Armed Forces, all five of its Astute class submarines are currently laid up awaiting maintenance and other repair work.

Military experts have also warned that the Navy’s lack of available nuclear-powered attack submarines – which carry up to 38 Spearfish torpedoes and a battery of Tomahawk missiles – leaves the UK’s sub-sea internet and power cables dangerously vulnerable to sabotage by [Russia].”

The attack submarines also protect the larger Vanguard submarines, which carry the Trident ballistic nuclear missiles that make up the UK’s nuclear deterrent.

“The extraordinary revelations come just a day after the Mail told how one of Britain’s flagship £3.5billion aircraft carriers had broken down again and was forced into port in Norway for repairs.

Lord West, former First Sea Lord and Labour security minister, last night said it was ‘unacceptable’ and ‘very worrying’ that Astute subs are out of action. ‘The attack submarines are fundamental for looking after our ballistic missile submarines,’ he added.”

The Telegraph reported:

“All five of the UK’s Astute-class hunter-killer boats are awaiting maintenance and repairs. A sixth, which was commissioned into the fleet, is not yet ready to deploy.

Naval commanders have said the situation makes the UK look “toothless” in the eyes of Russia, which has ramped up naval activity around British waters by a third in the past year.

Cdr Ryan Ramsey, a former nuclear submarine captain, said the lack of available attack boats was a “serious wake-up call” for Britain.

Urging Sir Keir Starmer and ‘major industry players’ to ‘get a grip’, he told The Telegraph: ‘We look toothless. The Russians know we can’t put submarines to sea. None of this makes sense to me. You lose credibility against the Russians if you can’t maintain that deterrence at sea. This problem has been hidden for decades. Everyone knew this was coming, but it got kicked down to the next person in charge.”

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Germany:“Demon”, “sons of bitches”, “The Church is a whore” and “You’re all mass murderers”; several “men” disrupt the church service and intimidate worshippers

On Sunday afternoon, the police were called to the Catholic church of Maria Königin des Friedens in Osnabrück for a strange incident.

According to current information, six (possibly seven) men entered the church during the Catholic mass at around 11.40 am. The men stood side by side in a threatening manner and spoke loudly. They pointed at various areas and individual people, which many visitors found intimidating. The men then moved to the back of the church and handed out leaflets. As they did so, they shouted expressions such as “demon” and “sons of bitches” or phrases such as “The church is a whore” and “You are all mass murderers”.

The priest and the church council attempted to intervene and issued several bans from the premises. To no avail. By the time the police arrived, the men were no longer at the scene. Investigations into the background and those involved are ongoing. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the police by calling 0541/327-2115, -2215 or -2515.

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Muslims stormed a Catholic service at a church in Beauregard, France, shouting “Fuck your mothers, you Christians!” and “Allah Akbar”

“Fuck your mothers, you Christians!”
The facts have been established, and this is a very serious matter.
On Friday evening, Beauregard Church was the scene of racist, offensive and unacceptable remarks! At least two people shouted these insults, along with “Allah Akbar”, whilst a Catholic service was taking place.
The verdict is unanimous.
Clearly, the town was reluctant to condemn such insults. Harmonious coexistence must permeate our daily lives. This was the aim of our initiatives with the creation of the Olive Grove and the interfaith meetings since 2014.
Generation Poissy supports the Christian community. Just as we do for all religions.
And we urge the city council to protect religious buildings of all kinds. Enough is enough.
We are a long way from being a peaceful city!!

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UK Deputy PM Says Equality Before Law Doesn’t Mean Treating All Ethnic Groups the ‘Same’

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The Justice Secretary’s attempt to defend controversial police guidance on race has exposed a contradiction that goes to the heart of Britain’s increasingly confused approach to policing.

Faced with public outrage over guidance that appeared to encourage officers to treat ethnic-minority suspects differently, Lammy reached for an example involving Orthodox Jews and the Sabbath. Police, he suggested, sometimes have to consider cultural or religious circumstances rather than simply treating everyone the same.

At first glance, this may sound reasonable. A voluntary appointment can be arranged around religious observance. Courts and public bodies routinely make practical accommodations for religious practices, disabilities, childcare responsibilities and countless other legitimate considerations.

But that is precisely why Lammy’s argument fails.

The controversy surrounding police race guidance was never about common-sense accommodation. It was about whether race should influence how police exercise their powers and make operational decisions. Those are entirely different questions.

Nobody objects to a police officer arranging an interview at a convenient time. What concerns the public is the growing perception that justice is becoming conditional on identity.

The case of Henry Nowak has crystallised those concerns. An 18-year-old lay dying after being stabbed, yet officers reportedly prioritised investigating allegations that he had used racist language towards his attacker. Whether or not the guidance directly caused those actions, the optics were appalling. To many people, it appeared that race-conscious policing had overridden common sense, proportionality and basic humanity.

Rather than addressing those concerns directly, Lammy constructed a straw man. He implied that critics of race-based guidance are demanding a rigid system in which every citizen must be treated identically in every circumstance regardless of context.

That is not what critics are saying.

The principle of equality before the law has never required identical treatment in every practical detail. A wheelchair user may require different arrangements from an able-bodied person. A Jewish witness may need accommodation for the Sabbath. A Muslim officer may require flexibility during Ramadan. These are practical considerations designed to ensure equal access to justice.

What critics reject is the idea that race itself should influence the application of police powers, the assessment of evidence, or the treatment of suspects and victims.

By conflating religious accommodation with race-conscious policing, Lammy blurred a distinction that should be obvious to a Justice Secretary.

His defence is especially weak because it inadvertently highlights the very concern many voters have. Once authorities abandon the principle that individuals should be judged according to their actions rather than their group identity, there is no obvious limiting principle. Every decision becomes vulnerable to demands for special treatment based on ethnicity, religion, culture or historical grievance.

The result is not fairness but fragmentation.

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UK: The London police no longer attend the scene of the weekly attacks on supermarket staff, but arrived three minutes after a false accusation of racism was made. The accused employee was handcuffed and detained for hours

A supermarket founder has joined the furious row over two-tier policing by revealing a member of staff was handcuffed in store because of a malicious racism accusation. Iceland founder Sir Malcolm Walker said he made a formal complaint to the Metropolitan Police after one of his staff was seized by officers when a customer made a phoney allegation of racist abuse. Sir Malcolm revealed the Asian store supervisor had remonstrated with a black customer who had been tampering with milk bottles in the supermarket. The knighted entrepreneur said that after the customer phoned the police and made a false allegation of racism police arrived in “three minutes” and handcuffed the staff member.

Galled by the police response to the incident, Sir Malcolm told the Mail on Sunday “two-tier policing isn’t just happening on the streets” and pointed out officers often don’t bother to attend when staff have been attacked or threatened with violence by shoplifters. A global spotlight has been shone on Britain’s policing after the horrific case of Henry Nowak, the innocent 18-year-old student who was handcuffed as he lay dying on the ground by police after his murderer lied that he had been racist.

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Police Force Sought to Cast Stabbing Victim Nowak as Aggressor, Planned to Lecture Public on ‘Misinformation’: Report

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The police force involved in the death of Henry Nowak sought to falsely cast the British teenager as the aggressor in the incident that led to his killing before seeking to intervene to lecture the public about “disinformation”, a report from the Times of London has claimed.

The Hampshire police force has come under heavy criticism for the response of its officers during the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak on December of last year by 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa with a traditional Sikh knife. Bodycam footage released earlier this week showed an officer handcuffing the teen as he pleaded that he could not breathe and that he had been stabbed. In response, an officer was heard saying, “I don’t think you have, mate”, as Nowak lost consciousness.

In the trial that concluded last week, the Southampton Crown Court heard that the police had uncritically believed the false narrative promulgated by the Digwa family that Nowak had been racially abusive, a claim that was thoroughly debunked.

However, according to The Times of London, despite having evidence that Vikrum Digwa was apparently a serial liar, the police force had initially sought to cast Nowak as the aggressor in the incident, releasing a statement implying that he had started the fight and assaulted Digwa and his brother. This was later dropped by the force after pushback from the Nowak family, the paper of record reported.

Nevertheless, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary also reportedly sought to publicly intervene to warn the public about supposed “misinformation” about the case during the trial, a rare intervention from a police force.

While there are strict reporting restrictions in Britain during many criminal cases, international commentators, including X owner Elon Musk, had publicly discussed the killing of Nowak, apparently prompting the police force to attempt to make the rare move to make a statement mid-trial.

A spokeswoman for the Constabulary told the Times: “Following the opening of the trial and the media reporting that followed, a significant amount of mis- and disinformation was circulating online. This included requests for information to be shared that had not been fully examined as part of the murder trial.

“The intention of the statement was to remind the public that there were ongoing legal proceedings and that the law is clear that nothing could be published which could prejudice the trial.”

Ultimately, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) shot down the idea of the force making a public statement, over concerns that it would damage the “integrity” of the case.

“The CPS highlighted to the police that protecting the integrity of the ongoing trial was essential, and of the risks of referring to any aspect of the evidence before it had been heard by the court and the case had been summed up by the judge to the jury,” the prosecution service said. “However, it was made clear that whether a statement was released was ultimately a police operational decision.”

It comes as the political establishment in London is seeking to use the case to push for more censorship powers to combat so-called misinformation.

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said in the wake of the riots in Southampton following the release of bodycam footage of Nowak’s death that she was “very concerned” about social media amplifying false narratives during times of unrest.

“I definitely think, particularly during moments of crisis and disorder and when public safety is important, we need to look at what more we can do,” she said per The Guardian.

She cited a report from the science, innovation and technology committee of the House of Commons, which found that “misleading and hateful messaging proliferated rapidly online, amplified by the recommendation algorithms of social media companies” during the aftermath of the Southport mass stabbing, which left three young girls dead at a Taylor Swift dance party in 2024.

While supposed misinformation was blamed for the riots that ensued, the initial government narrative that the killer was merely a teenager from Wales proved to be lacking. It was later revealed that the killer, Axel Rudakubana, had immigrated to the country from Rwanda and that he had engaged with Islamist terror material before the mass stabbing.

Regardless, Kendal said the government is “looking at not only boosting trusted sources of information, which I think is extremely important and there’s probably more we could do there. But also, you know, enabling people to reset their algorithms.”

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