I'd even question the nice man bit. Starmer seems to have been dining out on the fact he did some human rights cases in his early legal career while a barrister, but he arguably turned establishment cunt while DPP.
A friend of mine was one of the people who was convicted then had their conviction quashed over this unseemly affair.
"A group of climate activists are calling on Labour leader Keir Starmer to give evidence to the Undercover Policing Inquiry, alleging he may have been involved in a cover-up of police and prosecutors orchestrating wrongful convictions.
The 18 activists were part of a group of 114 arrested while planning a protest against Nottinghamshire’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station in April 2009.
Some of them were prosecuted and convicted of conspiracy.
A further six were in a group prosecuted separately, whose trial dramatically collapsed after they discovered one of the protesters was undercover police officer Mark Kennedy.
When they asked to see Kennedy’s secret evidence, rather than disclose it the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) dropped the charges. When the defendants were given transcripts of Kennedy’s secret recordings of the protest planning meetings, they did indeed exonerate the six. The 20 activists convicted at the earlier trial have now had their convictions quashed."
18 activists arrested with an undercover cop want Keir Starmer to testify to the spycops public inquiry about his role in an apparent cover-up
campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com
And don't forget the night courts during the 2011 riots. All those people given harsh sentences, imprisoned for knocking a bottle of water.
[Tbh, I walked past the big Tesco in Hackney on Morning Lane during the riots and saw a couple of cases of bottles of water that had been liberated, just on the floor by the side door. If I'd been thirsty and helped myself to a bottle, I might easily have ended up in prison. I was offered biscuits on Clarence Road by a guy who'd participated in looting that little convenience store, glad I didn't accept any of those either.]
Fiona Bawdon: We need help from those involved in dealing with riot cases who are willing to be interviewed for phase two of the Reading the Riots research
www.theguardian.com
The upshot is that Sir Keir is not a nice man, not where the little people are concerned. He might've been once, but he's now establishment through and through. Where has the nice man been when poor and disabled people have been being financially battered by austerity?
