{"id":21121,"date":"2023-04-14T08:49:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T08:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adf.uk\/?p=10792"},"modified":"2024-01-26T13:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:26:06","slug":"excessive-bail-conditions-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adfinternational.org\/en-gb\/news\/excessive-bail-conditions-dropped","title":{"rendered":"\u201cExcessive\u201d bail conditions dropped for charity volunteer arrested for silent prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\" data-leveltext=\"-\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;-&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Police amend \u201cunnecessary\u201d and \u201cdisproportionate\u201d bail conditions which had been imposed on Isabel Vaughan-Spruce following successful challenge backed by ADF UK<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\" data-leveltext=\"-\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;-&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Charity worker faced expulsion from public spaces beyond the censorial \u201cbuffer zone\u201d around Birmingham abortion facility, following her recent arrest over silent prayer<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Birmingham (14<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> April 2023) &#8211; <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">West Midlands Police have relaxed the onerous bail conditions placed on Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, the charity worker who has been arrested for the second time for praying silently outside an abortion facility in Birmingham.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Vaughan-Spruce, who has been a volunteer for crisis pregnancy help services for twenty years, was arrested on 6th March for praying in a so-called \u201cbuffer zone\u201d around an abortion facility on Station Road in Birmingham. The zone is imposed by a local Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), available <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.gov.uk\/downloads\/file\/24121\/robert_clinic_station_road_b30\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">here<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Following her arrest, police imposed bail conditions that prohibited her presence in an area considerably larger than the buffer zone, including outside a local church where she leads a group of volunteers in prayer and charitable support throughout Lent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Process becoming Punishment<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Police claimed that these extensive conditions were necessary to prevent Isabel from \u201ccommitting an offence whilst on bail\u201d or from \u201cinterfering with witnesses or otherwise obstructing the course of justice\u201d. However, backed by ADF UK, Vaughan-Spruce&#8217;s legal team submitted that these conditions were \u201cunlawful and effected in this case for an improper purpose.\u201d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Given that no witnesses are known to be involved in this case, Vaughan-Spruce&#8217;s legal team submitted that the \u201cinterference with witnesses\u201d grounds for the bail conditions were \u201cdisingenuous\u201d and \u201cimposed for an ulterior motive\u201d.\u00a0 The team successfully argued that <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">banning Vaughan-Spruce <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">beyond the buffer zone amounted to a &#8220;disproportionate and unnecessary&#8221; restriction on her freedom in relation to the allegations of a \u201crelatively simple\u201d crime.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<em>I\u2019m glad to see some measure of justice restored to proceedings that had imposed excessive burdens on my everyday life. Nobody should be criminalised for the thoughts that they hold in their head. After my first arrest, a court found that my actions did not result in a crime and that I was completely innocent. Yet, I find myself arrested yet again, for the same activity \u2013 simply praying, silently<\/em>,\u201d commented Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, upon news of the success of her challenge to her bail conditions.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<em>By imposing such arduous and far-reaching restrictions as my bail conditions, police officers ensured that the process became my punishment, even before I have been tried following this second arrest. The bail conditions had a serious negative impact on my life. The prayer group which I lead had decided to meet to pray outside of the \u2018buffer zone\u2019 to avoid any confusion during Lent. Yet even though they took this precaution, I was forbidden from joining them for our month of prayer meetings because of the restrictions of my bail conditions,<\/em>\u201d she continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThe police are behaving as judge, jury and executioner\u201d<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Vaughan-Spruce&#8217;s bail conditions had been imposed during the Lent season, which is one of two periods during the year that a group of Christian volunteers gather to pray in a community outreach campaign known as \u201c40 Days for Life\u201d.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">West Midlands police applied the bail conditions for three months, which is the maximum initial period available under the Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing (PCSC) Act 2022.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Under the terms of the Act, a suspect may be bound by imposed conditions despite not yet being formally charged following an arrest.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><em>Whilst we welcome West Midlands Police\u2019s decision to relax Isabel\u2019s excessive bail conditions, the cavalier manner in which her basic rights were restricted is deeply concerning. In Britain, you are innocent until proven guilty, which means the citizens are entitled to demand that any curtailment of their civil liberties are proven to be strictly necessary and proportionate &#8211; criteria that West Midlands Police failed to meet in the initial bail conditions imposed on Isabel,<\/em>\u201d explained Jeremiah Igunnubole, legal counsel for ADF UK, who are supporting Isabel\u2019s legal defense.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In 2022, ADF UK and other civil liberty groups <a href=\"https:\/\/adf.uk\/resources\/fips_gbnews_21-10-21\/\">warned<\/a> that broadly drafted laws under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Act 2022, will inevitably be used by police officers to erode the most basic of freedoms.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This concern is compounded by Free Speech Union\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/freespeechunion.org\/the-urgent-need-to-teach-the-police-about-free-speech\/\">recent report<\/a>,\u00a0which found that approximately 78% of the police forces are providing no or inadequate training on freedom of speech.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<em>By punishing Isabel without reference to the prosecution or courts, police are now in the ominous position of judge, jury and executioner. N<\/em><\/span><em>ewly introduced public order legislation has handed broad and unaccountable powers to police officers without at the same time training them to confidently differentiate between criminal acts and the peaceful exercise of fundamental rights such as free speech, thought, and religion. The upshot has and will be repeated civil liberty violations of the kind Isabel has endured. This in turn entrenches a culture of authoritarianism and will ultimately serve only to damage the public\u2019s confidence in policing<\/em><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u201d continued Igunnubole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<em>There is now an urgent need for police officers to receive training on freedom of speech, thought, religion and associated civil liberties. <\/em><\/span><em>In a free and democratic country, no law should ban peaceful prayer,\u00a0 charitable support and the free and frank exchange of ideas. <\/em><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><em>No officer should be confused about the difference between the peaceful exercise of fundamental rights such as silent prayer and criminal behaviour such as harassment and intimidation. Isabel\u2019s ordeal shows that unlimited power in the hands of an untrained police force will always lead to injustice,<\/em>\u201d he concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police amend \u201cunnecessary\u201d and \u201cdisproportionate\u201d bail conditions which had been imposed on Isabel Vaughan-Spruce following successful challenge backed by ADF UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[899,944,909,898],"class_list":["post-21121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-free-speech-en-gb","tag-isabel-en-gb","tag-religious-freedom-en-gb","tag-uk-en-gb"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cExcessive\u201d bail conditions dropped for charity volunteer arrested for silent prayer - 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