Matthew John Newman was given a suspended sentence on 16th June for posting content online which identified his children, after they were taken into care. The material has been removed from the internet.
The judge handing down the sentence, Mrs Justice Theis, sentenced the father to nine months in jail, suspended until April 2020.
Theis said Mr Newman had breached another judge’s orders by publishing content relating to private family court proceedings about the children.
Justice Theis handed down a similar sentence in March last year to a mother who had published content about her case online. Sara Root was sentenced to nine months in prison after publishing details about her family law case.
Ms Root was subsequently released from prison at the end of March after apologising to the judge for breaching reporting restrictions.
Gloucestershire County Council, the council currently in charge of Matthew’s children brought the case against Mr Newman. The council said the father was in contempt of court.
Mr Newman did not attend the hearing.
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#powercorrupts And absolute power corrupts absolutely. An LA poking it’s head out from behind it’s veil of secrecy and non accountabilty to wield a big stick. #changeiscoming #FCtransparency #kidscansuecouncils
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Shes at it again..always into overdrive. .when will she be gone??
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What happened to FREE SPEECH,FREE SPEECH,FREE SPEECH ???????????
The fundamental right of citizens in a democracy is the right to protest publicly when suffering a perceived injustice………
Anything else is dictatorship. How can we allow such horrible judges to inflict their equally horrible jail sentences on parents whose children have been ruthlessly snatched and given to strangers?
Please campaign to abolish social workers family courts, and forced adoptions ! Replace them by police and criminal courts like it used to be when parents were innocent until proved guilty.
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The Judge and the CPS Agency are the obvious criminals and all of them should be jailed. They have so much to hide from the public. Why?
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But it’s ok for Local Authorities to parade kids on a catwalk for adoption!, I wonder if they have to show their teeth too!!
There shouldn’t be secret courts & there shouldn’t be secrecy about what happens in them. Who is really being protected?
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A little off piste but relevant about our so called justice system. The families of the London Bridge attack have been told it is not in the public interest to receive state funding for legal representation (or legal aid as we know it.) They will either have to self fund or represent themselves in court. Meanwhile the Government has used public funding to hire some of the best legal teams to represent their interests in court. This has echoes in the Family Court. This is not justice it’s a travesty! There is no justice.
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Soon everybody will get used to those sentences and that there is no freedom of speech. We can,t do anything except of steaming anyway.No one cares.
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