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UK Jesus junkie, silenced by police, awarded more than £1,200

UK Jesus junkie, silenced by police, awarded more than £1,200

Last updated on: November 12, 2020 at 11:08 pm by Barry Duke

UK Jesus junkie, silenced by police, awarded more than £1,200 2020-11-12T23:08:15+02:00 Barry Duke

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EVANGELICAL nuisance Dominic Muir, above, accused by police of flouting COVID-19 rules by publicly preaching in Dorset, has been awarded £1,250 in costs.

Police stepped in after Muir, of Christian charities Now Believe and Jesus Fields, was prancing around on the back of a truck in Blandford’s Market Place, making an unholy racket by singing and preaching from the Bible with a microphone.

According to Christian Concern, police stepped in, “manhandled” him and put and end to his annoying claptrap.

The Salisbury Journal adds that action was taken because he’d “breached the Government’s Covid-19 legislation”.

A Dorset Police spokesperson said:

[Muir’s] conduct was attracting other people to the scene, which was creating a gathering – something we considered also breached the rules in place.

It is important to remember that there was a significant risk to public health at the time of these events as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

The spokesperson added:

The officer tried to engage with the complainant and encourage him to stop. However, he failed to cooperate so the officer used reasonable force to remove him from the truck.

Muir then left the scene voluntarily. His detention by a police officer lasted less than a minute.

Following the incident, Dominic went scuttling off to the Christian Legal Centre – the go-to outfit for “persecuted” Christians in the UK. It assisted him with a letter to the Chief Constable of Dorset Police seeking compensation.

The force has now paid £1,250 to Dominic and his legal team – broken down, a £50 without prejudice offer and £1,200 in costs.

Responding to the settlement, Muir, who claims in this “please send me money” video that COVID-19 has reduced his income by 80 percent with no furlough, said:

It was intimidating and humiliating to be confronted by the police in this way and treated as a potential criminal. I have no doubt that if I had continued to preach or sing, I would have been handcuffed, arrested and taken to the police station.

During the pandemic I have honoured social distancing, but I also have a legitimate job to do, which is to preach the gospel.

Only a deluded idiot besotted by Jesus can claim that making a public nuisance of oneself, and shouting out Jesus’ name to people who don’t care a fiddler’s fuck about religion, is a proper job.

He added:

For centuries, street preaching in the UK was an honoured profession that was respected and deemed essential to people’s physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.

To be shut down by the police like this represented a huge shift for me and shows the extent of society’s secularisation.

Back in 2013, Muir had a run-in with the police in London after preaching in a park. A spokesman for Wandsworth Council said at the time that:

Standing on the back of a van and using a loud hailer to shout messages at passers-by is a very clear breach of the park’s bye laws, which are there to ensure that people can enjoy the park’s peace and tranquillity without being accosted or harangued.

However, charges against him were dropped.

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