Community worker is cleared of machete attack on Rastafarian

[TonyGosling]

Community worker is cleared of machete attack on Rastafarian
The Guardian (London) April 9, 1988 LENGTH: 255 words
A jury yesterday cleared a community worker on charges of attacking Rastafarian Mr Kuomba Balogun with a machete.
Earlier, Mr Balogun, aged 26, was fined Pounds 150 by the judge at Bristol crown court for turning up late on the second day of the trial.
Mr Justice Smithies told his counsel, Mr Ian Glenn: 'A fine would be a proper way of expressing public disapproval.'
The judge also ordered Mr Balogun to pay Pounds 100 towards his defence costs but Mr Glenn said that he did not intend to claim them.
The jury found Mr Valentine Walker, aged 36, of Robertson Road, Easton, Bristol, not guilty of unlawfully wounding Mr Balogun with intent. An alternative charge of unlawful wounding was also dismissed.
The prosecution claimed that Mr Walker, former vice-chairman of the St Paul's Community Association, of which Mr Balogun is chairman had struck a 2ft 6in machete into Mr Bologun's neck. Mr Mark Horton, prosecuting, said the blow came within one centimetre of severing his juglar vein.
The court was told that Mr Balogun did not initially report the incident to the police and discharged himself from Bristol Royal Infirmary after treatment.
In his address to the jury, Mr Nicholas O'Brien, the defence counsel said: 'Mr Balogun is an evil man who does not share society's standards or values.'
Mr Walker did not appear during the two-day hearing and the judge said that an arrest warrant still stood but was now with bail so that he would not have to be immediately arrested when found.

[TonyGosling]

1980s St Pauls leader Balogun: Bristol mayor Marvin Rees' father Valentine helped force me out of UK

Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzRNhxERDbs

St Paul’s civil rights leader who says mayor Marvin Rees’ father Valentine helped drive him out of Bristol, wishes his son ‘good luck’ – Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, king soon, joining Israel’s war on Iran?
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2017/11/17/bcfms-weekly-politic s-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-90/

Nicholas O'Brien



Degree: MA

Year of call and Inn:
1968; Middle Temple

Professional Membership:
Western Circuit; CBA

Email:
nicholas.o'brien@albionchambers.co.uk

Specialist Areas:
Crime, including Courts Martial

Practice Overview:
Nicholas O’Brien is a specialist in criminal law and undertakes prosecution and defence work and is a CPS panel advocate level 3 prosecutor. He also deals with matters concerning aviation law.

Areas of Practice
Crime
Nicholas has a particular interest in cases involving vulnerable defendants and witnesses; child abuse; adult sexual offences; science and medicine, as applied to the criminal law, automatism, forgery and counterfeiting, fraud, racially-aggravated offences, arson, firearms and explosives, homicide, causing death by dangerous driving, endangering the security of aircraft and prison offences.

Cases of Interest:
R v Matchwick – arson and explosives
R v Amor – firearms
R v Hall and Patrick – child sexual abuse, abduction, rape, unlawful sexual intercourse, immoral earnings, causing prostitution.

Crime Clerks:
Bonnie Colbeck
E: bonnie.colbeck@albionchambers.co.uk
T: 0117 311 0301

Ken Duthie
E: ken.duthie@albionchambers.co.uk
T: 0117 311 0368

[Whitehall_Bin_Men]

Black owner of Lakota nightclub which has in house drug dealer where several young people have died
Marti Burgess
Tapped up to join slave trading Illuminati
Merchant Venturers

Matthew Montagu-Pollock says...
Ah yes...Marti Burgess. Appointed in October 2018 to be a director of Bristol 24-7, joining her (?) brother. When I mentioned to someone politically well-connected that 24-7 would not publish the piece of sleuthing I did above, his answer was, ah well....Marti Burgess fiercely opposes publication of anything critical of Marvin (just reporting this conversation, mind you - maybe it was simply too boring for them!)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/169400953696154/permalink/545220846114 161/

[TonyGosling]

1986 - This was the week in September 1986 when Bristol was beginning to feel the backlash from Operation Delivery, in which 600 men from the Avon and Somerset police force had gone into St Paul’s to make a series of arrests for drug offences. This had led to an outbreak of stone throwing, cars set on fire, a smash and grad raid on a local store and a mugging.
To make matters worse the Assistant Chief Constable Malcolm Popperwell was taken off to hospital after a suspected heart attack. And Tom Turvey, the police authority chairman, was asked to stand down after objecting to a Labour party statement about the police raid. He said that there were differences between his view of the events in St Paul’s and those contained in the statement which demanded a full, independent public inquiry into Operation Delivery. There were angry scenes at a Police Liaison Committee over the fact that the police did not consult community leaders before the raid and that it had been provocative and heavy handed. And Avon County councillor Roger Berry described the extent and duration of the raid as "totally unacceptable." It was an unhappy day for the police who were, this very week, staging a parade on College Green to celebrate 150 years of city policing. Some 45 retired police officers joined 140 police officers for the event which was attended by Bristol’s Lord Mayor, Joan Jones and the Lord Lieutenant of Avon, Sir John Wills.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/4018611705

[Whitehall_Bin_Men]

The Naked Truth. How alleged cocaine, violence & the establishment led Marvin Rees to Bristol Mayor

Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5YYyTE1-GA

Published on 16 Aug 2020

The Naked Truth. How alleged cocaine importation, violence & the establishment led Marvin Rees to eventually become Bristol Mayor. Through the in-depth research of independent broadcaster Tony Gosling we look at how the 1980's St Paul's riots, the importation of cocaine into the area, and the establishment appear to have made it possible for Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees to progress from a slum area to having a placement at Harvard in the USA.