I am amazed at the fuss at the decision to not allow Boy George to appear in next weeks TV show Celebrity Big Brother.
Mr Justice Bean dismissed the application, saying that an offender serving the non-custodial part of a sentence should not be allowed to “take part in a high-profile television production”.
Lawyers acting for the musician, whose real name is George O’Dowd, had claimed that the ban was imposed amid fears that the Probation Service would come under attack from the media if he was allowed to take part in the show, which begins on January 3. He was expected to have earned £400,000 for his appearance.
Yesterday there were radio shows that dedicated huge sections of their programme to that decision, most of them that I heard were criticizing the Judge, these people who are backing George today are the same ones spouting of the rest of the year about how weak and ineffectual our justice system is, how there is one law for the rich and one for the poor.
George was not jailed for a traffic offence or non payment of a fine, or even for using drugs where you could argue that he was only hurting himself.
Have these people have forgotten what it was he was jailed for. it was for assaulting and falsely imprisoning Auden Carlsen a male escort that George had hired for the evening, following a trivial argument George chained him to a radiator and beat him with a chain, his ordeal only ended when he managed to escape George did not release him who knows what George had in mind for, this could have ended in more serious injury or worse with murder.
Imagine the roles reversed and the escort had done the same to Gorge he would have got at least 5 years, so for George to get sentenced to 15 months only was a good result for him and out of that he served only 4 months, and is out on licence until April of 2010, the terms of his licence state that he may not change his address and must be able to be visited by his social worker daily.
As these terms would be violated if he entered the Big Brother house his request was rightly denied, why should he be treated preferentially because of his celebrity status.
Hats of to Justice Bean for treating George as the criminal that he is.
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