Judge Tan Ikram CBE is the judge who denied Danny Tommo bail, declaring that he was "satisfied there is a real possibility of an immediate custodial sentence".
But Ikram is Deputy Senior District Judge (Deputy Chief Magistrate) for England and Wales. His usual base is Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. That is where he normally hears extradition cases, terrorism cases, and other high-profile or sensitive work that comes under the Chief Magistrate’s special jurisdiction.
He was drafted in to Basingstoke specially to shaft Tommo and has a history of being placed in politically motivated cases. This is despite his being censured by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office for “perception of bias”, occurring after he had recently given conditional discharges to three women convicted of terrorism-related offences for displaying Hamas paraglider images at a protest.
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🚨NEW: Judge Tan Ikram CBE, the judge who denied Danny Tommo bail and said he was "satisfied there is a real possibility of an immediate custodial sentence", has a history of being placed in politically motivated cases.
. Sentenced a man to 20 weeks in jail for posting a racist joke in a WhatsApp chat.
. Let off the OnlyFans girl who threw milkshake at Nigel Farage.
. Let off two women for terrorism charged after glorifying 7 October massacre.
. Was himself given a disciplinary after liking a post on LinkedIn that stated Israel was a terrorist state. Although obviously not a crime, it did bring into question his impartiality.
. He was given a CBE by Boris Johnson in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to judicial diversity. He has spoken out about what he sees as the problems due to the lack of ethnic diversity in the police and the judiciary.