Jailed for posting on Facebook?!
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He posted some pics of a Grenfell towers victim, went to jail for three months for for it.
"Mwaikambo, a 43-year-old chef born in London to Tanzanian parents, returned from work to his home next door to Grenfell Tower at about 00:15 BST on 14 June.
About 01:00 - just as he drifted off to sleep - he started to hear strange noises.
"I heard a faint sound of 'help, help'", Mwaikambo said.
"At first I dismissed it. Then it happened again. And again. So I got out of bed to investigate."
Mwaikambo's first instinct, he said, on seeing the fire, was to run to warn his neighbours.
He then joined the throng of locals gathered beneath the tower.
He saw trapped residents screaming and waving for help. Others he saw jumping to their deaths.
"It was sort of like watching the 11 September World Trade Center", he told BBC Newsnight."It was about 05:00, as he returned home to his flat, that Mwaikambo spotted the body.
A corpse, wrapped in plastic, apparently dumped in the enclosed courtyard area outside his flat's front door.
"God knows what I was thinking in my head," he explained.
"But I was holding my iPad. The body was not wrapped tightly; it was loosely wrapped.
"Inside I was just saying to myself 'does anybody know this person?' I just took the picture."
Mwaikambo started off by taking photos of the body bag from a distance. Then he went further. He lifted the plastic sheeting around the corpse's face, and took more.
"[I was] not even knowing what I was doing." he said.
"It just happened. No explanation. But with anger. [I was] traumatised. Mesmerised as well.
"Morally I know it was wrong. But it was not morally right for a body - for its respect - to be left unattended out there."Then came the move that pushed Mwaikambo's actions into the criminal. He uploaded seven of the pictures, plus one short video, to his Facebook page.
Mwaikambo did so, he now claims, in anger and confusion.
But also, he says, out of habit. Posting regular status updates to his Facebook page is, for him, just "something he does".
His Facebook account was set to "open", meaning anyone with an internet connection could see his pictures if they looked.
But even then the pictures didn't go viral. It took the involvement of someone else - professional photographer Jason Kay - for the police to get involved.
Around 08:00 that morning, Mwaikambo met Mr Kay, who had just arrived on the scene. He offered him use of all his photographs from the previous night.
Mr Kay thanked him - then informed the police."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41314418
He posted some pics of a Grenfell towers victim, went to jail for three months for for it.
"Mwaikambo, a 43-year-old chef born in London to Tanzanian parents, returned from work to his home next door to Grenfell Tower at about 00:15 BST on 14 June.
About 01:00 - just as he drifted off to sleep - he started to hear strange noises.
"I heard a faint sound of 'help, help'", Mwaikambo said.
"At first I dismissed it. Then it happened again. And again. So I got out of bed to investigate."
Mwaikambo's first instinct, he said, on seeing the fire, was to run to warn his neighbours.
He then joined the throng of locals gathered beneath the tower.
He saw trapped residents screaming and waving for help. Others he saw jumping to their deaths.
"It was sort of like watching the 11 September World Trade Center", he told BBC Newsnight."It was about 05:00, as he returned home to his flat, that Mwaikambo spotted the body.
A corpse, wrapped in plastic, apparently dumped in the enclosed courtyard area outside his flat's front door.
"God knows what I was thinking in my head," he explained.
"But I was holding my iPad. The body was not wrapped tightly; it was loosely wrapped.
"Inside I was just saying to myself 'does anybody know this person?' I just took the picture."
Mwaikambo started off by taking photos of the body bag from a distance. Then he went further. He lifted the plastic sheeting around the corpse's face, and took more.
"[I was] not even knowing what I was doing." he said.
"It just happened. No explanation. But with anger. [I was] traumatised. Mesmerised as well.
"Morally I know it was wrong. But it was not morally right for a body - for its respect - to be left unattended out there."Then came the move that pushed Mwaikambo's actions into the criminal. He uploaded seven of the pictures, plus one short video, to his Facebook page.
Mwaikambo did so, he now claims, in anger and confusion.
But also, he says, out of habit. Posting regular status updates to his Facebook page is, for him, just "something he does".
His Facebook account was set to "open", meaning anyone with an internet connection could see his pictures if they looked.
But even then the pictures didn't go viral. It took the involvement of someone else - professional photographer Jason Kay - for the police to get involved.
Around 08:00 that morning, Mwaikambo met Mr Kay, who had just arrived on the scene. He offered him use of all his photographs from the previous night.
Mr Kay thanked him - then informed the police."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41314418
Pesty said:
I agreee with you but you know riots would have occurred in this case if he got a slap on the wrist.
Er, why?We seem to be in an era where the first reaction to disaster or suffering is to whip out a camera. I've seen video of people videoing the aftermath of horrendous car and bike crashes. Rather than offer help to the suffering victims, dozens of people stand and watch/record every miserable moment.
Gareth79 said:
Yes, the offence was "two counts of sending by a public communications network an offending, indecent or obscene matter", presumably section 127 of the Communications Act, the exact wording being "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character"
People post pics of dead babies and suchforth to Facebook all the time with 'say amen if you care' and 'share if you want god to help' and other tedious drivel. I have complained to Facebook a couple of times at some of the horrendous pictures, but been told it is okay.I guess their censorship bot photo scanner could find no nipples of muff so rejected my objection.
A photograph of me topless on the beach was removed, because someone objected to nudity though.
Edited by King Herald on Thursday 21st September 13:10
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