MICK HUME: The pathetic let-off of Farage's milkshake attacker is yet another example of two-tier justice and why the elites look so out of touch
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Not for the first time, Nigel Farage MP this week said what many other Brits may be thinking. ‘We now live in a country where you can assault a Member of Parliament and not go to prison,’ the Reform UK leader wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter), ‘The latest example of two-tier justice.’.
![[OnlyFans model Bowen, from Essex, pleaded guilty to assault by beating, and was handed a suspended sentence by deputy senior district judge Tan Ikram]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/01/93250529-14203267-OnlyFans_model_Bowen_from_Essex_pleaded_guilty_to_assault_by_bea-a-3_1734485628997.jpg)
He was referring, of course, to the sentence given to an OnlyFans model from Essex who threw a milkshake over him while he was campaigning in his Clacton constituency before the summer’s General Election. Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, reportedly called Mr Farage a ‘f***ing c***’ as she hurled the milkshake at him as he left a meeting at a Wetherspoons pub in the Essex seaside town. She said she did it because she disagreed with his political views.
![[Victoria Thomas Bowen leaving Westminster Magistrates' Court in London after admitting assault by throwing a milkshake over Mr Farage in June]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/01/93251221-14203267-Victoria_Thomas_Bowen_leaving_Westminster_Magistrates_Court_in_L-a-2_1734485628973.jpg)
Despite pleading guilty to the crime of assault by beating, she was handed a suspended sentence by deputy senior district judge Tan Ikram. Judge Ikram told Farage’s assailant that ‘this was not just an attack on him’ but also ‘an attack on our parliamentary democracy’, and reminded the court of the murders of two other MPs – Labour’s Jo Cox in 2016 and Conservative Sir David Amess in 2021.
The judge declared that ‘a clear message must go out, public debate must not be shut down by criminality such as this’. Too true. So why on earth did he then suspend her sentence of 13 weeks in prison for 12 months, a move that means she won’t spend a day behind bars? What ‘clear message’ did that pathetic let-off send out?.
