Many will remember the case of the religion of peace member Abdullah Qureshi who attacked Jewish people, including a child, in London’s Stamford Hill in August 2021. This case dragged on literally for months what with pandemic delays and various social and psychiatric enquiry reports being written about this particular bearded savage.

Although, according to the BBC, there was a final disposal of this case back in August of this year it is worth revisiting today as it is still relevant in the context of worries that police forces and courts may not be behaving equitably when dealing with different people from different backgrounds. Qureshi, who I nicknamed ‘Mo-hammered’ because of the drink and drugs aspect to this case, is mad I can accept that, but the disposal of this case, a mental hospital order, looks to me to be incredibly lenient. The hospital order states that he is to be detained until he is well again although how long that will be is unknown. He could be out in six months or he could be in for a long time.

I believe that Qureshi has been treated far more leniently than someone from another background who committed a similar offence would have been treated. Imagine the scenario where there was a person of White Christian extraction who was a bit mentally unstable who had committed a similar series of offences and had travelled hundreds of miles from their home town in order to commit offences against Jews such as these. Would such a person have their mental illnesses taken so seriously by the courts that it resulted in a hospital order? It’s quite possible that a hospital order would be given but its also likely that a court might interpret the unusually long journey of the sort that Qureshi made in order to commit the offences as some form of aggravating factor as it could show sane deliberation prior to the attack. I suspect that had this offender not been a Muslim then there would have been much more consideration given by the courts to the idea of immediate custody in gaol rather than a hospital order.

As for the behaviour of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in the Qureshi case I don’t believe for one moment that if it was a White Christian defendant that the CPS would have dropped any ‘hate’ aspect to the charges, which at one point they did in Qureshi’s case. It was only when Jewish anti-semitism campaigners pushed the CPS over this issue that the hate aspects of this case were reinstated.

This case is relevant even though it has had its final disposal as we are seeing a rash of cases where police forces are not giving accurate descriptions of those they are seeking to speak to in relation to crimes. This in turn is giving rise to speculation both online and in real life that police are hiding the identities of ethnic minority criminals in order to not rock the political boat or challenge the narrative that everything in the multicultural garden is rosy. This case is also relevant to the recent Peckham shoplifting incident where the police have allowed Black activist campaigners to post highly troubling signs on the shop in question without sanction and interdiction by the police. If this had been White protestors putting up posters on the shutters of the shop that were racialist in nature then you can bet your bottom dollar that the police would be doing something about it.

The law and law enforcement should treat people as equally as possible, it is a basic Biblical rule that justice should not favour the rich or the poor or allow justice to be sold like a commodity. When there is not equal justice or equal law enforcement then public confidence in policing and the court system ebbs away. If the public lose confidence in the law and in law enforcement then it opens up the nation to some really bad nasties such as vigilantism which trustworthy and equitable law enforcement and court systems are there to prevent.