Dear All
After 3 years, 1 month and 3 days, Nicola Sturgeon’s
independence ally and former SNP Govan Organiser Tommy Ball was sentenced for
his criminality for endangering my life and safety by tweeting that I was a ‘known
paedophile’.
Sentencing Ball, Sheriff Margaret Liddell said:
“This was an unpleasant and malicious offence.”
And she was absolutely right, in my youth, I used to
teach children as I have mentioned before regarding this case, in my later years,
I ended up at Glasgow University, there I was teaching in the main, young men
and women.
If there is one thing I am really proud of was my time spent
doing that activity.
Tommy Ball created a spoof page on twitter in my name, using
my picture, linked it to my blog and put up my address, he then started
tweeting saying stupid things; the idea was to discredit me. When that didn’t
work, he escalated his abuse to start tweeting about me having sexual
intercourse with children, filming young women getting undressed, and anything
else he could think of in terms of abuse.
Tommy Ball walked out of Glasgow Sheriff Court but it may
now be dawning on him that he will always be remembered for tweeting about
sexual intercourse with children. One of his former friends and indy
campaigners who I tweeted said that politically, Tommy Ball is finished.
What political party would take Tommy Ball as a member now,
especially with his history?
When I told Tommy Ball aka @georgemlaird that I had gone to
Police Scotland, you would have thought he would be smart enough to stop his
hate campaign, but no, he wanted to continue with his criminality under the
illusion he was safe.
Why did Tommy Ball target me, it was because I outed him to
the press over his tweets regarding British soldiers.
After the story broke, he left the Scottish National Party
and used his blog to attack calling me among other things a tramp, after I was
a member of the audience at the BBC Big Debate in 2012.
Then he stuck up on his blog a picture of a cartoon
character called Herbert the Pervert from a tv show called Family Guy, someone I
know pointed out to me what Herbert was as a character. Later on Ball started
deleting all pictures on his blog, post notification that I had called in
Police Scotland.
Tommy Ball after leaving the SNP joined up with the SSP,
there some people including so I understand Frances Curran became concerned
about his online activities. Tommy Ball became a member of the SSP Media team;
he was appointed to their EC and was a candidate for them. Ball was to stand as
a candidate in the Shettleston by-election were he achieved 35 votes with a political
party backing him. I stood in the Govan by-election and got 103 votes with no
help and no political party backing me. The SNP Councillor David McDonald said
he wanted to see me go ‘head to head’ with Ball, as I wrote in an earlier post,
Tommy Ball lost.
I passed on information to the SSP about Tommy Ball via
friend to someone in the party, then later on, Tommy Ball suddenly left the SSP
after it was said he would be their candidate for the SSP’s Westminster
campaign in Pollok in 2015.
Then with his hate account rumbling quite the thing, Tommy
Ball was terribly keen for revenge, but he wasn’t very clever, so I started
investigating Tommy Ball and the account @georgemlaird, data crunching. After a
while it became clear to me that @georgemlaird and Tommy Ball where the same
person; I found this out prior to him standing in the Shettleston by-election
but rather than subjecting him to the hate campaign he done against in when I
stood in the Govan by-election, I gave him a free pass. When I decided to get
involved in politics, I decided that I would politically play it straight down
the line, no lying and no cheating.
When Police Scotland turned up at Tommy Ball’s door, one can
only wonder what the look on his face must have been as they invited him to the
Police station and seized his laptop, tablet and phone. The Police Station at
Govan is just across the road from me which was handy.
Arrested, charged and convicted.
After he was arrested Tommy Ball left Scotland to go living
in County Longford, Ireland, presumably after tweeting about sexual intercourse
with children, he might have felt disappearing to somewhere that people don’t
known his history might be a good thing.
On the 12th of September 2014, I was in Glasgow
City Centre passing through St Enoch’s Square when I spotted a demo against the
Ukip leader Nigel Farage, as a political activist I don’t do demos, anyway I
stopped to see what was going on. As I stood in the square, I ended up talking
to two women who also wanted to know what the situation was. It was then I saw
Tommy Ball, he took out his phone and photographed me from a distance then went
on twitter to tweet with the picture:
“Noted sexual predator and bigot George Lard has turned up
to support fellow BetterTogether man Farage”.
At this point, it should be mentioned that Tommy Ball had
been arrested and charged by Police; again he was endangering my safety and
using his own personal twitter account to do so.
At Court, Tommy Ball’s lawyer said that his client (Ball) accepts
he was “foolish” and it was “wholly unacceptable” what he did to me but given
that Ball is a proven serial liar, I don’t put any weight to that rubbish.
As to the claim that Tommy Ball “deeply regrets his actions”
and is “extremely embarrassed to be appearing in court”, I think his ‘regret’
is based on getting caught, and that the embarrassment is to get a lighter
sentence.
The hate account setup by Tommy Ball is protected but it can
be found by clicking on this link.
As you can see it has 971 tweets and 17 followers.
The SNP MP Natalie McGarry assisted Tommy Ball but because Ball
pled guilty to get a lighter sentence I didn’t get the chance to name her in
open court, so I am taking the opportunity to do so yet again. McGarry linked
my blog to Ball’s hate account using her own personal account on twitter. Natalie
McGarry like Tommy Ball is a rather nasty vile person who has her own troubles at
present.
Finally, I am aware that four newspapers covered the sentencing
hearing of Tommy Ball, the Herald, the Evening Times, the Daily Record and the
Scottish Sun as you can see by the look on Tommy Ball’s face, he doesn’t seem
too happy that justice caught up with him.
Tommy Ball will always be remembered as the independence
ally of Nicola Sturgeon who serially tweeted about sexual intercourse with
children.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Well done sir ,at last somebody standing up for themselves against the vile, and seemingly untouchable, cult ,,,,,, Sir I salute you
ReplyDeleteWell done Mr Laird, a hard time for you no doubt, but you have come through it, and you did not give in to the bullying and accusations.
ReplyDeleteI second Mr Lafferty's comment and I too salute you.
Well done George , strange a compensation order wasnt made tho, i'd imagine he'd have liked that . ;)
ReplyDeleteOne thing... Why is the fake twitter account still live ? Surely you can get that closed now that its been proven in court it was used for criminal activities.
Dear Anon
ReplyDelete"Well done George , strange a compensation order wasnt made tho, i'd imagine he'd have liked that . ;)"
Thank you, I am more than happy with the result, and Tommy Ball will have to carry the shame about tweeting about sexual intercourse with children for the rest of his life.
George
Great result George,,,, JUSTICE!!! It's disgusting to know that this type of leech, TOMMY BALL, is so "close" to Sturgeon.
ReplyDeleteFantastic result George ,pity the deviant didn't get banged up as well.
ReplyDeleteA reasonable result George pity he didn't get time though
ReplyDeleteGood result. Perhaps the media should be reminded who retweeted some of his vile comments.
ReplyDeleteWas this story reported on STV News George? I didn't hear it at all, just wondering if anyone knows.
ReplyDeletewell done on you getting justice
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