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From: Brighton Unemployed Workers Ct
Subject: Re: You have a VOICE we don't, please speak up on our behalf

Dear Archbishop Sentamu,

I am forwarding this desperate plea from two 20 year Ugandan twins who face deportation imminently. You are from Uganda and so will be more up to date with what is happening there than most people in public life.

It would be nice to see the Church taking up heart rending cases such as this, where lives are in danger, rather than engaging in navel gazing over obscure biblical passages regarding homosexuality. Under Archbishop George Carey the Church reverted to its traditional racist policy of seeing nothing, saying nothing and hearing nothing when it comes to asylum seekers.

Jesus was an asylum seeker and it is a great pity that the Church is more concerned with appeasing the powerful today than defending the powerless. I would hope that the change in personnel at the top of the church might herald a change in attitude.

I hope you will make a personal intervention AND PUBLICISE IT.

Yours sincerely,

Tony Greenstein
Secretary - Brighton & Hove Unemployed Workers Centre
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See you there Jewstein!

Saltdean Man in Child-sex Shame

by Tom Pugh
Brighton Argus
9/2/06

Child-sex charges were today withdrawn against a Saltdean man after the Prosecution admitted it did not have enough evidence. Charges of sexually assaulting two girls aged under ten were brought last year against Peter Williamson, but at the start of what was expected to be a 2 week trial, the Prosecution said they could not proceed because the children involved were too traumatised to give evidence. Forensic evidence in the case was said to be “inconclusive”. Peter Bentley, prosecuting, said it gave him no pleasure to have to withdraw the charges, and that he could understand how the children and their families would feel “betrayed” by the system, but he said that under the circumstances it was the only option available.

After the charges against Williamson were formally dismissed, he pleaded guilty to five specimen charges of downloading child pornography from the internet. The “disgusting” images were found on Williamson’s computer after police raided his home while investigating the allegations of sexual assault.

Williamson, a former member of the British National Party, was described as a “virtual alcoholic” and a “sick pervert” who was obsessed with Adolf Hitler and immersed himself in far-right politics. The court heard that he was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 1996.

In mitigation, Williamson’s solicitor said that his client had been suffering from depression and drinking heavily at the time the offensive images were discovered on his computer. Williamson was said to spend long hours surfing the internet. He is now attending meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, and was willing to attend specific “offence-related” counselling if ordered to do so by the court.

The case was adjourned for two weeks for sentencing reports.