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December 28th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Jaya Narain
Last updated at 1:38 AM on 22nd December 2011
A teenage juror who falsely told a court he was ill so he could sneak off to watch a West End musical with his mother will spend Christmas behind bars after his lie was exposed.
Matthew Banks, 19, had tickets to a matinee performance of the hit show Chicago last Friday but failed to tell the court in Manchester about this when he was called for jury service.
He sat on the jury for an assault case throughout last week but was determined not to miss his pre-Christmas treat, so on the fifth day of the trial he rang the court to say he was unwell.
Gift gaffe: Matthew Banks (right) was jailed after calling in ‘sick’ when scheduled for jury duty – he was caught out because his boyfriend Christian Orr (left) told a calling court official Banks was in London for a show
The university student then travelled to London to enjoy the musical with his 49-year-old mother, Debbie Ennis. Meanwhile, the case was adjourned.
But Banks was rumbled even before the curtain rose at the Garrick Theatre, as a court official had telephoned his student digs to find out whether he would be fit to return to the jury after the weekend.
His boyfriend Christian Orr answered the phone and said Banks was not there because he had ‘gone to London to see a show’.
After police went to interview Mr Orr,
Banks rang the court again claiming he was recovering at his mother’s
home. But yesterday the student was beginning a 14-day sentence after he
pleaded guilty to contempt of court.
Judge Martin Rudland said Banks’s
offence was too serious for a suspended term because of the frivolous
reason for his absence and the lies he had told.
British justice? Banks’ mother Debbie Ennis has vowed to appeal her son’s jail term, calling it ‘ludicrous’
He told him: ‘It’s a huge sadness and disappointment for me to see you sitting in the dock when for the last week I have seen you sitting in the jury box.
‘It’s with a heavy heart I come to the conclusion that custody it must be.’
The Manchester University language
student looked stunned as he was led away to start his sentence in a
young offender institution.
Last night his mother said her son
should have received nothing worse than ‘a slap on the wrist’ and she
would fight to have him released before Christmas.
Christmas present: Banks went to see Chicago at the Garrick Theatre in the West End with his mother
She called the custodial sentence
‘ludicrous’. Miss Ennis, who said her son was quiet and shy, tried to
convince him not to do the jury service because he had just moved to
Manchester to study French and was not settling in well.
‘I asked him not to do it,’ said Miss Ennis from Rugeley, Staffordshire.
‘He only moved to Manchester in September, hasn’t settled well and has been feeling lonely, but he felt it was his duty.
‘He’s a naive 19-year-old and when he
told me what happened, we told him to hold his hands up and apologise,
because we trusted the British justice system.’
She added: ‘It stinks. He wanted a
career in the government but he’s got a criminal record now. We thought
he’d get a slap on the wrist.’
Chorus line: Banks refused to attend the final crucial days of a trial because he wanted to watch Chicago’s tale of femme fatale Roxie Hart
Banks had spent last week sitting at Manchester Crown Court in the case of a man accused of running over his girlfriend.
The trial had reached its summing-up stage when the teenager rang the court saying he had been up all night being sick.
As a result the case was adjourned, the 11 other jurors had to be sent home for the day and the case was re-listed for Monday.
After the lie was exposed, Banks was ordered to attend court, where he admitted what he had done.
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another of the self serving, entitled generation. – graeme, east sussex, 21/12/2011 22:49 ———–I agree with Megan, Coventry- there seems to be a lot of prejudice towards the younger generation…however, it does beg the question…who was it that brought this generation up to be the professed ‘self servers’? I put it to you that the earlier generations have to be called into question if indeed THEIR children have shortcomings, which are essentially their own in my opinion. You are only spoilt if someone spoils you.
Then quite a lot of people on here should start looking in the mirror then and stop blaming others for their mistakes. As a 21-year-old recent graduate, now employed full time, I resent a lot of the comments on here. No one ever seems to recognise the hard work a lot of young people do but when they do something wrong it’s in the news!
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What does his father have to say about it? Why is his mother sticking up for him?
Mummy’s boy, pure and simple.
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University student!
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So the mum wants to appeal the sentence … lets just hope for her sake that the judge hearing it doesn’t decide to go to a show half way through.
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The mother was well aware of his jury service and I assume also that he was still serving when he took his day off. If so then they are as irresponsible as each other. Perhaps she too should be spending Christmas with some new ‘room mates’ for aiding and abetting his actions.
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As Private Manning if Wikileaks ill repute, and this case demonstrates, perhaps it isn’t a case of sexual orientation we must examine as a society, but sexual disorientation, when these cases happen repeatedly.
– andyandersonusa, Bremerton, WA, USA, 22/12/2011 01:53
It is not a matter of sexual discrimination, it is a simple matter of right and wrong. The young man violated the terms of jury service. Manning stole information and hurt his own nation. Why use the red herring about sexuality when it is obviously a matter of breaking the law?
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it does beg the question…who was it that brought this generation up to be the professed ‘self servers’? I put it to you that the earlier generations have to be called into question if indeed THEIR children have shortcomings, which are essentially their own in my opinion. You are only spoilt if someone spoils you.
– Mary , london, 21/12/2011 23:41
—————————In this case apparently the mother, though strongly assisted by the state and schooling system which encourages children’s rights, makes discipline difficult in schools and encourages schools to suppress competition and criticism in case it upsets the children. No wonder they grow up thinking that they can do what they like!
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What’s the difference between this 19 year old student and a 19 year old bricklayer? The answer is that some on this site would like to forgive the student’s behavior, whereas they would jail a bricklayer. Students are constantly let off the hook, because jail would harm his/her “future endeavors”. Does every teen student who is facing jail use the “civil servant in the making” excuse? It doesn’t matter if he goes to jail or not at this venture, because any future employer now knows the true mettle of this person. He is selfish and untrustworthy. He cares little for his community or his country. He will lie and make excuses if caught. I would hate to see this student in any position of authority. He’s little different than the foul mouthed drunk one who was thrown from the train.
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As Private Manning if Wikileaks ill repute, and this case demonstrates, perhaps it isn’t a case of sexual orientation we must examine as a society, but sexual disorientation, when these cases happen repeatedly.
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The boy was stupid – not criminal does the realy deserve a custodial sentance .?
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