It is the taxpayers who foot her bill. Imagine: British authorities have awarded money to aid an Islamic State bride whose jihadi husband murdered innocent people, while authorities have failed to aid the victims. That is an atrocity, and one more example of how Western leaders continue to force their populations into dhimmitude.
“London Bridge terrorist’s widow given £15,000 legal aid while victims’ families denied,” by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, February 1, 2021:
The widow of the London Bridge terror attack ringleader got more than £15,000 in legal aid for his inquest while families of victims were denied public funds.
Figures show £15,660 was granted to Zahrah Rehman – whose evidence was criticised by the coroner.
The taxpayers’ cash funded a barrister during the inquiry into the deaths of her Islamic State-inspired jihadist husband Khuram Butt and his two accomplices.
All three were shot dead by police and it is normal for relatives of those killed by the state to receive legal aid.
However, there is no automatic right for families of those killed by terrorists to be legally represented at inquests.
Butt and his fellow fanatics murdered eight people and injured 48 others, using a van to run people down and then stab many more in a 10-minute frenzy before police shot them dead in 2017.
One of those killed was Australian nurse Kirsty Boden, 28, who was stabbed to death while helping other victims.
Her boyfriend James Hodder, 33, from Windsor, Berkshire, said: “I would demand a fully transparent justification for why the attackers’ families are supported by the state but none of the victims’ families were given a single penny.
“I’m sure she [Ms Rehman] needed financial aid quite rightly, but so did we. What’s the difference?
“Representation at the inquest was essential. The inquest involves incredibly complex and niche areas of law.
“Without a trained legal team you stand no chance of being able to scrutinise proceedings and ensure lessons can be learnt. You simply can’t engage with the inquest without legal support.”
Although the families of victims were denied legal aid, lawyers agreed to represent them on a pro bono basis at the inquest, which lasted two months….
Keith O says
Sickening, this is just one more example of why western societies are being torn apart by the barbarians.
Wellington says
Par for the course. No surprise here.
If we still lived in a sane world (we do not), there should be much surprise by this “outcome” as well as accompanied by significant outrage.
But there isn’t. And why? Because the rot of such idiocies like political correctness, multiculturalism, self-hate, general ignorance, and the cancel culture had its origins in that most rotten of decades in the West, the 1960’s.
Truly, anyone desiring to learn the etiology of the enormous foolishness which now infects the West, MUST look to the 1960’s. Not to do so would be a grave error.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
I sometimes temporarily forget, for a brief moment, that we now live in an insane world.
Then, after reading the daily news feeds, I am jolted back into the “reality of insanity”…
gravenimage says
I know how you feel, James…
GreekEmpress says
Me too.
nicholas tesdorf says
Incredible but explicable thanks to Islamophobia Propaganda.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
Well, my country’s run by insane sad little people who are expecting some kind of reward for sucking up to cavemen and savages.
Nothing new here. Just one question, how long does the British legal system think they can carry on behaving like such demented terrorist-loving jackasses, and yet still carry on as a so-called “first world country”?
Jayell says
What ‘first world country’? In fact , what ‘country’?
James Lincoln says
So just *why* does the London Bridge jihadi’s widow need $27,383 in legal aid???
Michael Copeland says
It is the cost of the barrister, the barrister’s junior, and the solicitor.
All credit to those lawyers acting pro bono (without charge) for the victims – an admirable example.
James Lincoln says
Thank you for the reply, Michael…
gravenimage says
UK: London Bridge jihadi’s widow given $27,383 in legal aid while victims’ families denied
…………..
Just appalling.
Eleanor says
Could the difference be that the UK Govt does not want to pay compensation to those who lost their lives or were injured? If the Victims families collectively started an internet fund raising campaign for legal help to sue the UK Govt, I would donate. Too late for this case now, but there will be future cases, sadly.
Michael Copeland says
The sum shown is for the lawyers’ fees. It is not compensation.
Victims of crime can receive some compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation scheme. The sums involved are predetermined on a scale.
Rob Callow says
Such are the traitors who now govern us
Fred van de Bunt says
According to this expert information the economic loss of 5 terrorist attacks in England in 2017, of which this London Bridge attack is one, was 3 billion Pound.
https://news.sky.com/story/britains-year-of-terror-timeline-of-attacks-in-2017-11036824
According to MI5 there are 43000 terror suspects walking around in England!!
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/01/london-bridge-jihadis-widow-granted-15k-legal-aid-victims-families-denied-funding/
According to this article 9/11 did cost some 47 billion $.
https://www.iii.org/publications/insurance-handbook/insurance-and-disasters/background-on-terrorism-risk-and-insurance
Taxpayers and citizens should be aware of that. These terrible economic losses from Islamism they pay at the end for, since businesses and government just add their cost to the consumer price and taxpayers bill.
Since both government and businesses see an enlargement of their government administration and business services market related to terrorist services, both might even welcome more terrorism!!
Taxpayers and citizens are just mere collateral damage, that pay the bill.
Economically spoken, looking at the terrible financial cost of all those violent derivatives of Islam, the following conclusions can be drawn:
-government and business might be positive toward more terrorism; it depends how much power, salaries and profits they can reap out of terrorism;
-taxpayers and citizens should be fully against Islam, to prevent Islam derivate terror, since they pay the bill, often also with their lives.
gravenimage says
Besides everything else, Jihadists are bleeeding us dry financially. Osama bin Laden said that one of his goals was bankrupting his victims.
Jayell says
To judge from grass roots opinions, disciples of the islamic faith are now increasingly becoming the most detested section of the UK population, and the obvious reasons can be found in their own arrogantly behaviour and attitudes. Furthermore, the more they are transparently protected by the Establishment, the worse this situation gets. I cannot see a pleasant outcome to any of this now.
RichardL says
the Brits, for 30 years elected people who want islam, thus they themselves want islam. The UK is lost. France is lost. Belgium is lost. Germany is lost. The US cannot help this time because the enemy is within and it is the majority. The UK in which I studied 30 years ago has completely disappeared.
gravenimage says
Please don’t preach surrender.
Jayell says
Only in recent years have the ‘Brits’ known anything much about islam. 30 years ago Mr. & Mrs. Joe Public knew little if anything about this ‘Religion of Peace’ and no political party was even mentioning it at that time, so no one in the UK was voting islam in nor would anyone want to! If islam has contaminated the fabric of the UK in any way, it’s happened behind people’s backs (like most things done by the UK Government in recent times). No one over here trusts the UK Establishment anymore and with the information that leaks more and more out these days it’s obvious why. The British people have never tolerated BS from their so-called ‘masters’ in the past, and it looks like we’re keeping up the tradition. So the UK is NOT ‘lost’.
OLD GUY says
The left n America wants to defund the police and at the same time release criminals and go to no bail and instant release after arrest along with providing full legal aid and assistance to the criminals. This craziness seems to be everywhere anymore. Criminals should be treated harshly not pampered or there is no deterrent to their criminal actions.
James Lincoln says
Makes sense to me, OLD GUY…
Marcus Aurelius says
Commies used to say when they came to hang us, we’d sell them the rope. Now the UK’s giving them the rope for free. A society this stupid doesn’t deserve to survive – just saying.
job says
Where is the BNP and the National Front when you need them?