Justice for Vaccine Injured

POLICIES

• We call for a Public Vaccine Harms Enquiry which will look into the many problems and illnesses related to the Coronavirus vaccines.

• We advocate an amnesty for all "Coronavirus-related legislation" crimes; the quashing of any such convictions; and the fines which have been paid by those convicted, to be repaid, with compensation.

Background on Crimes Recorded

Most of these "crimes" were dealt with via fixed penalty notices or warnings rather than court convictions.

The following information gives an idea of the scale of the so-called crimes recorded.

The Scottish Government website tells us:

The enactment of the Coronavirus Act 2020 and Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (implemented on 25 March and 27 March 2020 respectively) led to new and additional crimes being recorded within these statistics since 2019-20. For example, this includes cases where someone had left the place they were living during lockdown, did not have a reasonable excuse for this when asked by a police officer, and failed to comply with police advice or instruction to return there. Further legislation in respect of local travel restrictions came in to force on 2 November 2020.

                Given the rapid pace of these changes, Police Scotland have used a bespoke data collection to capture information on the number of new crimes recorded under Coronavirus related legislation.

                Whilst many incidents will have been dealt with by police without the need for enforcement, 3,913 Coronavirus restrictions crimes were recorded in 2021-22, accounting for 1% of all crime recorded in Scotland this year. This compares to 20,976 equivalent crimes recorded in 2020-21.

gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2021-2022/pages/10/

For 2019-2020 we're told:

The 2020-21 figures include 20,976 crimes recorded under Coronavirus related legislation, compared to just 107 towards the end of 2019-20.

gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2020-2021/

Background on Convictions

Another Scottish Government page, published on 21 June 2022, tells us:

Criminal proceedings and convictions under Coronavirus legislation, that was introduced in April 2020, have been included in this bulletin for the first time. In 2020-21 there were 39 people proceeded in court for offences relating coronavirus restrictions, with 36 people convicted. Of those convicted, five (14%) received a custodial sentence, all of which were 3 to 6 months in length. Twenty five per cent (9 people) received a community sentence, 36% (13 people) received a fine and 25% (9 people) received an 'other' sentence all of which were an admonishment.

gov.scot/publications/criminal-proceedings-scotland-2020-21/pages/10/