Rebekah Dawson from East London had refused to lift her niqab in - TopicsExpress



          

Rebekah Dawson from East London had refused to lift her niqab in order to confirm her identity when she appeared at Blackfriars Crown Court last month to enter a plea to a charge of intimidating a witness. The 22-year-old Muslim convert claimed it was against her religious beliefs to allow any male other than her husband to see her face. But District Judge, Peter Murphy, refused to let her enter the dock and submit a plea on the grounds he had no way of knowing she was who she said she was. Adjourning the case for legal argument until today, he explained that while it was important to respect a person’s religious beliefs, the interests of justice had to remain paramount. He told the court: “It would be easy for someone on a later occasion to appear and claim to be the defendant. The court would have no way to check on that.”
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:52:58 +0000

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