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Owen Jones hits out at far-right extremism as attacker is jailed

James Healy admitted assaulting Mr Jones outside of a pub in August last year.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2020-07-26 10:13
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Guardian columnist Owen Jones has criticised the rise of far-right extremism as his attacker was jailed for two years and eight months.

Convicted football hooligan James Healy, 40, admitted assaulting Mr Jones outside of a pub in August last year, but denied being motivated by Mr Jones’s sexuality or political campaigning – claiming he did not know who he was.

After a two-day hearing to determine Healy’s motive, Recorder Judge Anne Studd QC previously found the unprovoked attack could only be motivated by Mr Jones’s media profile as a left-wing polemicist.

This is a bit dramatic, so firstly I’m fine, but last night – when I was celebrating my birthday – I was attacked, along with my friends, in a blatant premeditated assault.

— Owen Jones ? (@OwenJones84) August 17, 2019

She added: “I therefore propose to sentence Mr Healy on the basis that this was a wholly unprovoked attack on Mr Jones by reason of his widely published left-wing and LGBTQ beliefs by a man who has demonstrable right-wing sympathies.”

Political problem

Following Healy’s sentencing, Mr Jones said in a series of tweets that far-right extremism was a “political problem” and that prison would not solve the issue.

“Far right extremism does not appear out of nowhere,” Mr Jones said on Twitter.

“It has been fuelled and radicalised by several mainstream media outlets, several mainstream commentators, and by several mainstream politicians.”

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I'm just one case study. Last month, @AyoCaesar was subjected to an online avalanche of threats of violence and death after she posed with an orange ice lolly. She is relentlessly targeted by the far right: but others help fuel their hatred. https://t.co/MxMLYs6mHS

— Owen Jones ? (@OwenJones84) July 24, 2020

He claimed politicians and media outlets who portrayed the left “as dangerous terrorist sympathisers who hate their own country” had “played with fire”.

“They have helped to radicalise extreme elements. They know this, but it doesn’t stop them,” he added.

Following Healy’s arrest, a search of his home found a number of items connected to far-right ideology, including a collection of pin badges linked to white supremacist groups.

The Chelsea FC fan – who has a string of convictions for football-related violence – had argued he “had the hump” because the victim had bumped into him and spilled his drink.

Mr Jones suffered cuts and swelling to his back and head, and bruises all down his body in the incident outside the Lexington pub on the Pentonville Road in Islington, north London, on August 17.

Unapologetic socialist

In his evidence, Mr Jones said: “I’m an unapologetic socialist, I’m an anti-racist, I’m an anti-fascist and I’ve consistently used my profile to advocate left-wing causes.”

He later tweeted: “As I wrote in my victim impact statement, prison is not a solution to far right extremism.

“He will go to a prison a violent far right extremist, and probably leave prison a violent far right extremist. There is no judicial solution to the far right: it is a political problem.”

Appearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, Healy was given a two-year, eight-month prison sentence for affray and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

His two co-defendants – Charlie Ambrose, from Brighton, and Liam Tracey, from Camden – were given suspended sentences of eight months each, suspended for two years after pleading guilty to affray over the incident.

Related – Football hooligan jailed over attack on Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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