An opponent of vaccines who wrote social media posts urging violence against scientists, politicians and public health officials during the COVID-19 pandemic has been sentenced to five years in prison. Patrick Ruane was convicted in September of encouraging terrorism.
LONDON — An opponent of vaccines who wrote social media posts urging violence against scientists, politicians and public health officials during theA British judge said 55-year-old Patrick Ruane had a “compulsive and obsessive” opposition to vaccines and spewed vitriol on the Telegram messaging app. One message described “whacking” England’s chief medical officer,
In a discussion about Whitty, the vaccine opponent wrote that hitting someone on the back of the skull with a rounders bat – similar to a baseball bat – or a metal mace “would turn said target into a vegetable for the rest of its life.” Prosecutor Julia Faure Walker said the posts reached a “very large audience” through two Telegram chat groups, one of which had 18,000 users and the other 8,000 users.
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