What better start to a Monday than to attend Westminster Magistrates’ Court? I was there for the trial of the young OnlyFans model Victoria Thomas Bowen who threw a banana milkshake at my face on the day that I launched my campaign in Clacton. Unbelievably, she planned to plead not guilty despite the fact that the whole thing was caught on camera. Rumours that her reason for doing all of this was because I had unsubscribed from her page are untrue. There was the usual circus of media outside as I arrived, but Victoria still insists she didn’t throw the milkshake just to get publicity for her website. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision, she says. Then at the last minute she pleaded guilty. The judge was not impressed. A huge amount of time and public money has been wasted on this charade. The sentencing date is set for 16 December, when she’ll get even more publicity. So it goes. As I left I noticed that Victoria was one of the very few British people to face justice that day. Most of the people on the list were Romanian criminals facing extradition. Funny that!
It was a fun-packed day. Later in the afternoon I gave a witness statement to the Metropolitan Police over a recent threat to kill me. I had covered on my social media channels the journey of a man called Mada Pasa as he made his way from Stockholm to Calais. He is, we believe, from Syria and would not therefore be deported when he gets into our country, as Syria is on the government’s ‘unsafe’ list.
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