Streeting aide receives only suspended sentence after flashing 13yo girl

Another red-Tory sex offender let off with slap on wrist while peaceful protesters get jailed without trial

Red-Tory Sam Gould, a now former adviser to Health Secretary Wes Streeting, has received only a suspended sentence despite pleading guilty to two counts of indecent exposure, one of them to a vulnerable 13yo girl whom he then pursued through the streets.

Gould had pleaded guilty at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court in Ilford and was sentenced at the same court to 22 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for two years.

Gould resigned from his councillor position after his conviction last month exposing himself to the girl while he was in his parked car in Romford on 8 March. Gould then followed her, forcing her to hide and knock on doors for help.

He also exposed himself to a woman in February, who found him masturbating in his car with the windows down Hornchurch on a month earlier.

Gould was also made subject to a seven-year ‘sexual harm prevention order’ banning him from contacting girls under 18, and ordered to pay £239 in legal costs.

Gould is the second Labour right-winger in a matter of months to be convicted of sex offences and let off with a slap on the wrist. Former Hackney councillor Thomas Dewey, an organiser with Israel-supporting group ‘Labour First’s who was allowed by the party to stand for election despite his arrest, received only 150 hours of community service despite admitting possession of the worst possible category of sadistic child rape images.

Another well-known pro-Israel right-winger, Ivor Caplin, was caught in January trying to meet a child, allegedly for sex. Sussex Police has not even announced whether Caplin will face prosecution – but did charge a local left-winger for highlighting Caplin’s pornographic posts.

Meanwhile, while sex offenders get off lightly if they’re right-wingers, the Starmer regime is prosecuting the left for peaceful protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and is keeping a group of young Palestine Action activists in prison for fourteen months before even coming to trial.

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