Europe’s so-called commitment to “democracy” and “free expression” took another brutal hit as a British man was sentenced to prison, not for violence, not for organizing riots, but for posting two tweets that were barely seen by anyone.
Luke Yarwood, a 36-year-old from Dorset, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after posting two anti-immigration tweets on X that together received just 33 views, according to The Telegraph.
Yarwood’s tweets were posted in the aftermath of the December 2024 Christmas market car attack in Magdeburg, Germany, where six people were killed.
The driver, 50-year-old Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen, originally from Saudi Arabia who had lived in Germany since 2006 and worked as a psychiatrist, was arrested at the scene.
According to court testimony, Yarwood posted a series of crude, angry tweets between December 21, 2024, and January 29, 2025.
In response to a post claiming Germans were “taking their country back,” Yarwood replied with a comment, “Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.”
In another reply, this time to a GB News post, he wrote, “Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MPs’ houses and Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE.”
These two tweets were viewed a combined 33 times. That did not stop the British state from throwing him behind bars.
The Telegraph reported:
Ms Linsley said while the two posts in question had minimal views, other posts Yarwood made in the same period had been viewed more than 800 times, and since he was replying to accounts with more followers, such as GB News, he wasn’t “shouting into the void”.
She added: “This wasn’t reckless behaviour, this was a pattern that happened over a month. It was rooted in his belief. He was angry about the presence of Muslims and foreigners in Britain. These two posts bookended a series of extremely unpleasant posts between December and January.
In other tweets that were not part of the charges, Yarwood wrote about the amount of foreign people in Bournemouth, stating: “Walking for ages and not hearing a word of English.”
He also wrote of his disgust at seeing “asylum seekers outside the hotel staring at young college girls”.
Nick Tucker, defending, said: “The current climate is such that this sort of activity has the potential to fuel serious disturbances. Thankfully this was viewed by an extremely limited audience.
“There is no evidence that it had any real world consequences. They are the impotent rantings of a socially isolated man with fragile mental health.”
Despite acknowledging that Yarwood’s comments were largely ignored, Linsley insisted the broader “atmosphere” around asylum hotels justified prison time, citing protests elsewhere in the country and referencing the earlier jailing of the wife of a Conservative councillor who was imprisoned in a similar speech-crime case in 2024.
In other words, you can be jailed not for what happened, but for what authorities imagine might happen.
Judge Fuller said Yarwood had a “preoccupation with immigrants and particular obsession with Islam and some extreme Right-wing views”.
He added: “You are entitled to express your views, but freedom of speech is not an absolute right, it’s a qualified one. What the law prohibits is the stirring up of racial hatred.
“The continuing safety and stability of our communities are undermined by actions such as yours.
“The tweets speak for themselves, they are odious in the extreme. There could be few clearer examples of words specifically designed to stir up racial hatred and incite violence.”
Elon Musk weighed in on this news, stating, “The UK has become a prison island.”
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