Is Silent Praying Thought Crime?

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a woman arrested after praying outside an abortion clinic, has received a payout from police. She received £13,000 from West Midlands Police. The annoying this is that it really means she received £13,000 from the tax payers, because that’s where the money comes from ultimately.

They settled her civil claim "without any admission of liability", but if they had her banged to rights you would have assumed they wouldn’t have dropped the case. That’s not really how the police work.

The big question is can you tell that someone is praying silently? If you can it still breaches the exclusion zone near the clinic. If you can’t then how will anyone know who to arrest?

And how does the distance work? Surely you could pray from anywhere seeing as the one you’re praying to is omnipotent. It feels like there could be a solution to this that keeps everyone happy and means we don’t need to pay out tax payers’ dosh.

Here’s a section from a recent TV spot covering the story.

@mrstevenallen

Arrested for praying... silently?

♬ original sound - Steve N Allen

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