an open letter to judge george bermingham

Bermingham.

Two months ago you used your role as part of an unaccountable Judicial body styled in Ireland simply as the Court Of Appeal to rule that children who had been murdered could not be named in the media.

Your ruling has also stipulated that children who suffered violence or abuse and survived could not use their own names in telling their own story.

You did not do this to protect innocent victims of crime and violation. You did this to prevent public commentary on murders in Ireland.

You have effectively made it illegal to name or comment on the killing of Seema Banu aged 32 and her two children Asfira aged 11 and Faizan aged 6 all three of whom were murdered in October by Seema's estranged husband.

Your ruling prevents public exposition of the circumstances of the murders of Seema, Asfira and Faizan.

Your ruling has also prevented the expression of public outrage when the murderer refused to release the body of Seema Banu aged 32, and Asfira aged 11 and Faizan aged 6, to their true family back in India.

By true family Bermingham, I mean anyone who didn't kill them.

Your ruling in preventing the expression of public outrage, allowed the usual suspects at the notorious Clonskeagh Mosque to go ahead with staging a funeral for Seema Banu aged 32 and Asfira aged 11 and Faizan aged 6, during which the man who murdered Seema Banu aged 32, Asfira aged 11 and Faizan aged 6, posed and preened as principal mourner at the graveside in a final posthumous mockery of the woman and two children he had slaughtered.

Effectively Bermingham with your gag order on public commentary, you allowed him to murder them again.

We might be concerned by other implications from your ruling and by aspects of the murder of Seema Banu and her children which the  promulgation of your ruling covers up.

Specifically in the above case, your ruling prevented the fostering and expression of public concern about the fact that Seema had months before her murder already been seriously assaulted and was being systematically terrorised in an ongoing way by the murderer of herself and Asfira and Faizan, that is to say months prior to the time when he actually got down to murdering them he had already seriously injured her, and the Irish courts system in its usual leisurely manner had scheduled a court hearing regarding the serious assault for some undisclosed time in the following year.

Irish police and the prosecutorial services had not detained the soon to be a murderer pending his trial for serious assault.

They'd left him loose.

Of course they had.

The leisurely pace of the Irish courts and law enforcement systems Bermingham, mean that the soon to be a murderer was left free for months to terrorise his victims on an ongoing basis and then to actually commit the murders.

Open and frank discussion of these matters does not impinge on the societal aspiration to provide the murderer with access to a fair trial.

The legalistic phrase 'Presumption Of Innocence' does not mean that a jury in a case involving a blatantly guilty murderer, must consist of idiots who have never accessed the internet and who have no opinions of their own.

Nor does  presumption of innocence allow you Bermingham to control what is said or thought, on the internet or indeed anywhere else.

Presumption of innocence merely expresses an aspiration to take a measured and fair minded view of the guilt or innocence of an accused person in a court room setting.

Presumption of innocence cannot be used by you Bermingham and your pals in the Judicial and political class to conceal the reality of violence against men, women and children in Ireland today, nor to conceal your own incompetence, the incompetence of Judges, police officers and court services who left the man who had already seriously assaulted Seema Banu aged 32, free to terrorise and then kill her and Asfira aged 11 and Faizan aged 6.

Your ruling has implications for many other cases.

In your stroke of the pen coup de main at the so called Court of Appeal, Bermingham, you have attempted to make it illegal for commentators or campaigners to name John Horgan aged 7 who was crucified  by teen satanist Lorcan Bale in the attic of the Bale family home in 1973.

You have also made it illegal to name Ana Kriegel (aged 14 but referred to as 13 in some reports) who was torture murdered by two teenage satanists in 2018. Incidentally you and your Judicial ilk Bermingham have thus far been successful in concealing the identities of the torture murderers of Ana Kriegel. On whose behalf are you acting in this concealment? Are the torture murderers of Ana Kriegel perhaps members of notorious gangland families? Politicians sons? High society types? What are they? I think we should be told. I note that no less than ten  people were charged in October in the Irish courts system with the  purely imaginary crime of trying to reveal the identities of the two torture murderers of Ana Kriegel aged 14. The police and the courts found time to process those charges but you never quite got round to bringing in the guy who'd already seriously assaulted and was terrorising for months on end Seema Banu and her daughter Asfira aged 11 and her son Faizan aged 6, without any limitiations being placed on his behaviour by the police or courts, before he finally got round to killing them.

I am displeased with you Bermingham.

James Healy