Ed Sheeran tells NYC court he'll QUIT music if he's found guilty Could a hormone spray reignite your love life? Mr Abbott-Thompson, who previously worked at the Foreign Office, was charged with two counts of assaulting an officer as well as a public order offence. Get married. I'm fashionably late, baby! How could she do it? Mr Abbott-Thompson achieved 11 A* grades at GCSE and went on to obtain a place at Trinity College, Cambridge University, to study law. Ms Abbott, 66, will become home secretary in charge of policing if Labour winsthe general election in a little over a weeks time. Doesnt mean you have to be a bow-tied pushover, just means you need to pick battles that you can win, with winning being defined by demoralising the baddies and making the goodies have their tails up. Britain's rock solid support for the Royal Family: With Charles' Coronation just four days way, a major poll LORD ASHCROFT: The monarchy has to change, but the King has time and goodwill on his side. Details of the shocking case can be revealed for the first time after Abbott-Thompson pleaded guilty to 16 offences including spitting and exposure over a six-month period. Here was a staunch socialist who for two decades had stood up for the underdog and railed against privilege. Its time for a robust response that points out that these people are hypocritical arseholes so they can be finished off for good. I am ultimately just a West Indian girl made good. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. The police dont like to get involved in charging people with known mental health issues. Lawyers acting for the Labour front-bencher wrote to this newspaper after it approached her for comment. Its not my place to forgive what she did with him but if it was Id struggle. Whether that obtains here is another matter. According to a court report from the Daily Mail, James Abbott-Thompson was reported to the police by his mother after he allegedly chased her around her house armed with a pair of scissors whilst claiming that he had a firearm in his dressing gown pocket. Yesterday the ex-diplomat was handed an indefinite hospital order and banned from entering the Foreign Office after attacking police officers there and throwing a stone at a member of the public when he was refused entry after being sacked last summer. The court was told police had been scrambled to Ms Abbott's home in Hackney on July 26 when he began chasing the 66-year-old with scissors. Yes. This might be too much information but the smallest rooms current book is a book of quotations. People whove known me for years. The Met Gala's heavenly bodies! 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Prosecutor Benn Maguire told the court the Labour MP was chased around her home by her son who said he had a gun in his pocket, although no gun was later found. The alleged offences include attacks on an emergency services workers, police officers, a nurse and a social therapist. The teenage boy who fatally injured pregnant woman Diane Miller by throwing a piece of concrete at her in a suburban Perth car park has been sentenced to five years in juvenile detention. James Abbott-Thompson, 28, faces 11 charges including nine assaults. Janelle Mone leads the worst-dressed list at the 2023 Met Gala in BIZARRE nearly-naked frock Boots and booty! You might say, perhaps Diane re-wrote it for him, but it shows no sign that she has done so, as its well-written and doesnt have spelling mistakes and is not written in crayon. Black, male with important mother: Unlimited warnings or until the Daily Mail is likely to find out. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. She has previously expressed her concern in parliament over assaults on police officers and other emergency workers and complained that for too long police victims of violence have felt like second-class victims. Thats to get your priorities and values upside down. Oh man. Diane Abbott's son has appeared in court charged with a string of offences, including nine assaults and one count of racially aggravated criminal damage. Lawyers acting for the Labour front-bencher wrote to this newspaper after it approached her for comment. Theres probably some sort of inverted victimhood poker stretching from: White working class male with short hair: zero warnings. It was just me throwing these options around in my head. DIANE ABBOTT Well, since I made that decision Labour built five new secondary schools in Hackney, one of them with some of the best GCSE results in the country. Diane Abbott's son was in court yesterday after being charged with a string of violent offences including allegedly beating up police, emergency workers and doctors as well as exposing. It was something I did which people who dont like me go on and on about. in 1992, before divorcing in 1993, @ dearieme and Jim The son of Labour MP Diane Abbott appeared in court earlier this week over a string of violent attacks on NHS staff and police officers. Olivia Wilde suffers red carpet embarrassment after showing up to the Met Gala in the SAME 'If that happens I'm done, I'm stopping!' James Abbott-Thompson was remanded in a mental hospital for assessment following a six month binge on Methamphetimine that appears to have completely wrecked Mr Abbott-Thompsons life and his career in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Long ago when I was the warden of a Hall of Residence my students reported to me that one of their number, whose dope smoking they had been happy to overlook, had dropped acid and had had to be restrained from trying to fly down a stairwell. 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Were better than them in oh so many moral ways indeed since their whole envy-driven, hateful, violent, grasping creed is immoral, in ALL of them. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Larry Elder keeps banging on about these issues, and about two things that keeps a young black person out of poverty and statistics are in ones favour: 1. dont get pregnant under 21 years of age 2. graduate from high school. It wasnt about me saying I dont care what happens to other boys.Ive done so much work to help those kind of children. On November 7, Abbott-Thompson launched into a racially abusive attack on another female nurse and smashed her glasses. Looks at higher rates of schizophrenia in black Afro Caribbean males and potential reasons. Now that shes put herself forward to lead the Labour Party I had the chance to ask her in her Westminster office. James Abbott-Thompson, 28, appeared at Thames Magistrates' Court on New Year's Eve accused of 11 crimes. Id also throw in foetal alcohol syndrome as an occasional factor, plus skunk although, as Jim says, that bit can be rather circular. Its like the fantasy about Brexiters mobbing the streets or what-have-you. DA Well it was intellectually indefensible. James is 18 now, has just finished his international baccalaureate, and is hoping to go to Cambridge University. James Abbott, 12, rang a radio phone-in on Tuesday after it emerged his mother was planning to send him to the 10,000 a year City of London School, rather than a comprehensive. Face what? At an earlier hearing he pleaded guilty to 12 assaults, racially aggravated criminal damage, making threats and exposing himself. The other major question is where is the major news broadcasters on this issue absolutely silent it seems. Theres undoubtedly a racial dimension to crime, Mr Car. The final attack was on December 23 when Abbott-Thompson whacked a therapist in a hospital canteen with a tray. Abbott-Thompson turned up unannounced and asked to see a member of staff he knew. Police were called to her home in East London on July 26 last year to find Abbott-Thompson naked except for a dressing gown making wild claims of being raped by someone at the Home Office, and yelling at officers: Stop raping me.. More generally, it would be interesting to know why he left (/was recalled) from his FCO post in Rome. The comments below have been moderated in advance. The former diplomat left the Foreign Office in June this year just weeks before the first alleged attack on July 26 when he is accused of carrying out three attacks including two on emergency workers outside Homerton Hospital and elsewhere in Hackney where his mother lives. He also made a number of threats, wrecked a glass plaque and assaulted a third man. Also for haranguing Finnish/Nordic NHS nurses for being too white and refusing their care. Mr Maguire said the 999 call about the gun and the scissors, which formed the basis of several officer witness statements, came from Diane Abbott herself. I did learn a few generalities it was a common age for the symptoms first to appear, the chances of a permanent cure were about nil, and so forth. Its a small but perfectly-formed example of how constrained we are as we fight them for our civilisations survival. Solicitors sent a legal letter shortly after. Its noticeable that his LinkedIn page, updated in 2019, shows no signs of madness. In my experience theyve always had to follow the Code for Crown Prosecutors (I think there is now a Code for Private Prosecutors, also), which sets out a two stage test: 1) is there a realistic prospect of conviction, 2) is prosecution in the public interest? Yet you sent your son to public school. Racism itself may contribute to social exclusion, increasing the vulnerability to schizophrenia. For me, of West Indian origin, that was a no-brainer. And it sounds like the poor young guy has severe mental health issues so the temptation must be resisted and best wishes for a speedy, full recovery offered. Cambridge graduate Abbott-Thompson had been tipped for a top job in the Foreign Office but he became hooked on crystal meth while stationed in Rome. I appreciate the sentiments of those who want to differentiate between the travails of this poor wretch, and the political stance of his mother. >The laddies having problems rather than being one. 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Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott's privately educated son, Diane Abbott quits the shadow cabinet: Labour veteran backs 'We're not your enemies!' He got a job in one of the Great Offices of State and seemed to be given an overseas posting quite swiftly, something his Cambridge University education would have helped him achieve. But he threw it all away because of his involvement with Meth. I note from the story (The Mail! Maybe he misheard that Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote. He went on in October to expose himself at Homerton Hospital. And still that question of the charges persists. The comments below have not been moderated, By Just follow the success sequence: get the highest level of education that you can. Poor bugger. BR You have been vilified and patronised in equal measure (Abbotts 56, but looks years younger). 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Or perhaps he was really shit at his job, got sacked, and that revealed his nasty, slightly mental side. And the doubling of her majority at the last election proves the people in Hackney, those who matter most to her, know that. The alleged offences took place between July 26 and December 23 last year with the majority occurring on NHS premises in London. The former shadow home secretary stumbled over the . The details of the letter are private and cannot be published. Yesterday it emerged the rising star had been hooked on drugs even before he joined the Foreign Office fast-track scheme in 2014. Diane Abbott, in full Diane Julie Abbott, (born September 27, 1953, London, England), British politician who was the first woman of African descent elected (1987) to the House of Commons. I learnt that the constabulary werent interested they had a deal with the uni that any such case that didnt involve harm to others should be dealt with by the uni health service. Abbott's decision in 2003 to send her son to the private City of London School after criticising colleagues for sending their children to selective schools, which she herself described as "indefensible" and . Required fields are marked *. Particularly significant factors appear to be the combination of isolation and exclusion, both within society (living in areas of low ethnic density and reduced participation in society) and within the family (family break-up and paternal separation). Diane Julie Abbott (born 27 September 1953) is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. He has a lot of grand Tory friends while my friends are people from my own background. Labour MP Diane Abbott has said sending her son to a 10,000-a-year private school instead of a comprehensive is "indefensible". Rebecca Camber for the Daily Mail , To paraphrase Trotsky (real name Lev Bronstein): You may not be interested in Identity Politics, but Identity Politics is interested in you.. When do we reach that point in the war with the Left? The grey area between being criminally responsible and being a total nutter is very large indeed. See the Life and Death of Colonel Blimp for dramatised instruction. After arriving it was officers who found evidence of crystal meth use in Abbott-Thompsons room. Questions at tomworstall.com we can answer: Why arent we all talking about Diane Abbotts son? Other alleged offences took place at the Royal Free in Hampstead and Mile End Hospital in Tower Hamlets. Was that before or after Stalin sank an ice-pick into Trotskys head? So a fairly typical afro-caribbean family history. Assault by beating of an emergency services worker December 23, 2019 Bevan Ward, Homerton Hospital assaulted a social therapist. Hence why it gets young men in the 20s and 30s they get involved in drug taking and that triggers the latent mental issues. I dont think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child. The shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott MP, tried to prevent the Daily Telegraph from reporting the details of a court hearing in which her son was accused of assaulting a police officer. He also sank his teeth into a police officer before battering two nurses, a doctor, a therapist and four more cops as they desperately tried to detain him under the Mental Health Act in a "drug-induced psychosis". 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We must judge individuals by their behaviours and the content of their characters not by slapdash reference to political tribes, classes, races, or genders. However this doesnt really explain the charges to Mr Abbott, as others have pointed out if it was linked to schizophrenia of other mental illness it wouldnt be in the public interest to bring charges and also . Something went wrong, please try again later. I realised that the offences that Abbott-Thompson was accused of were very serious but it was only when this case came to court earlier this month that the full details the violent depravity of Abbott-Thompsons actions came out into the light. Wood Green Crown Court heard the Cambridge graduate had been taking crystal meth, the chemsex drug GBL and cocaine since 2013. Hope he gets better soon is really the only worthwhile comment here. Why also did Diane Abbott try and suppress this story? Any other suggestions?. 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