Home abuse campaigners have stated they’re “appalled” after Richard Tice appeared to query courtroom information that detailed how a Reform MP bodily abused a former associate.
James McMurdock, the Reform MP for South Basildon and East Thurrock, was convicted and jailed for assaulting his then girlfriend in 2006 whereas drunk outdoors a nightclub.
He spent 21 days in a younger offenders’ establishment after admitting to the assault.
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James McMurdock. Pic: PA
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On Tuesday evening, Mr Tice defended his Reform colleague, arguing that as a “Christian nation” folks mustn’t condemn Mr McMurdock “as a sinner forever”.
Challenged by Sophy Ridge on the Politics Hub whether or not there had been a “major discrepancy” between Mr McMurdock’s model of occasions and what had been reported, Mr Tice replied that his “understanding” of the incident was “different” to what The Occasions stated had occurred.
Pressed on what he believed occurred, Mr Tice replied: “It actually doesn’t matter.”
“I’m trusting James,” he stated.
“He’s bang on the money and I think that what he says is right. He was there. The court wasn’t there. The Times weren’t there.
“The legislation is the legislation. The legislation dominated that he had transgressed and he was punished. He served his punishment.”
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Deputy chief Richard Tice, talking throughout a Reform UK information convention on legislation and order. Pic: PA
‘A whole disregard for justice’
“We are appalled by the interview that MP Richard Tice gave last night, in which he appeared to cast doubt over the court records that found his colleague had physically abused a former partner,” they stated.
“His statements showed a complete disregard for the role of justice in dealing with domestic abuse and a failure to recognise the positive example that policymakers should set in the context of tackling domestic abuse and violence against women and girls.
“Political figures ought to take motion to finish violence towards ladies and ladies and the misogyny that underpins it, not enshrine it additional by discrediting the voices of victims and survivors.”
They have been joined of their criticism by Alicia Kearns, the Conservative shadow minister for nationwide safety, safeguarding and stopping violence towards ladies and ladies.
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She posted on X: “‘It doesn’t matter’, Reform says. It does to every survivor of domestic abuse. It does to every person currently living with male violence. Diminishing your actions is an attack on the victim. Diminishing doesn’t demonstrate accountability.”
Talking to Kay Burley on Sky Breakfast, commentator Tim Montgomerie, who has simply joined Reform, stated he was “not going to be someone who’s going to defend Reform at every point.
“If you happen to kick a girl on the bottom, it is unacceptable.”
He added: “If that’s what occurred, that for me, is disqualifying.”
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Tim Montgomerie responds to Richard Tice’s interview on Sky Information
In keeping with the Justice of the Peace’s sentencing remarks, Mr McMurdock was given 21 days in a younger offenders’ establishment and “the sentence was not suspended in light of serious nature of the offence”.
Mr McMurdock’s sufferer’s mom introduced the incident to gentle every week after his election, saying he “left marks on her body” and “it took two security guards to pull him off her”.
MPs wouldn’t have to reveal earlier convictions to the general public when standing, with solely folks in jail on the time of the election for a sentence of greater than a 12 months barred.
He stated: “While I absolutely deny the horrific details in this tale, there is one truth in it that I cannot, nor will not deny or hide from.
“A beneficiant particular person would possibly name it a teenage indiscretion however I don’t anticipate everybody to be so sort.
“This is the biggest regret of my life and I wish I could go back in time and fix things.”
