{"id":209207,"date":"2025-08-09T04:52:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=209207"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:21:53","slug":"209207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2025\/08\/09\/209207\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Kennedy: UK Courtroom Contractors Who Use Violence &#038; Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 data-start=\"643\" data-end=\"702\"><strong data-start=\"647\" data-end=\"700\">The Day Justice Died in the King\u2019s Bench Division<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"703\" data-end=\"950\">In Britain\u2019s most prestigious courtroom \u2014 the King\u2019s Bench Division \u2014 a disabled man was <strong data-start=\"792\" data-end=\"830\">physically assaulted in plain view<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"831\" data-end=\"834\" \/>The attacker: <strong data-start=\"848\" data-end=\"867\">Ajay Founellier<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"703\" data-end=\"950\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2025\/07\/25\/209049\/aj2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-209051\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-209051 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/aj2-e1754740559312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/aj2-e1754740559312.jpg 970w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/aj2-e1754740559312-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/aj2-e1754740559312-768x424.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a><br data-start=\"868\" data-end=\"871\" \/>Official headshots of Howard Kennedy LLP personnel, as displayed on the firm\u2019s public website. Published here for reporting on ongoing High Court proceedings in KB-2025-001991, under fair dealing for news reporting and in the public interest.The victim: a disabled man who came to court seeking justice, not violence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"952\" data-end=\"1031\">And right there, mere steps away, was <strong data-start=\"990\" data-end=\"1006\">Rebecca Hume<\/strong> of Howard Kennedy LLP.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1033\" data-end=\"1125\">She didn\u2019t flinch.<br data-start=\"1051\" data-end=\"1054\" \/>She didn\u2019t intervene.<br data-start=\"1075\" data-end=\"1078\" \/>She didn\u2019t demand the judge halt proceedings.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1127\" data-end=\"1273\">Instead \u2014 and this is the part that should make every British citizen furious \u2014 <strong data-start=\"1207\" data-end=\"1270\">she later falsified the court record to cover up the attack<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"1275\" data-end=\"1278\" \/>\n<h3 data-start=\"1280\" data-end=\"1316\"><strong data-start=\"1284\" data-end=\"1314\">From Witness to Accomplice<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1317\" data-end=\"1511\">Hume didn\u2019t just fail in her duty as an officer of the court. She became part of the crime.<br data-start=\"1408\" data-end=\"1411\" \/>In her filings, she rewrote the truth. The assault vanished. The disabled victim became invisible.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1513\" data-end=\"1670\">This was no accident. This was <strong data-start=\"1544\" data-end=\"1580\">deliberate narrative engineering<\/strong> \u2014 a calculated lie to protect the attacker and shield the shadowy interests behind him.<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"1672\" data-end=\"1675\" \/>\n<h3 data-start=\"1677\" data-end=\"1704\"><strong data-start=\"1681\" data-end=\"1702\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2025\/08\/09\/209207\/rebecca-hume\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-209208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-209208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/rebecca-Hume.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/rebecca-Hume.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/rebecca-Hume-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 data-start=\"1677\" data-end=\"1704\"><strong data-start=\"1681\" data-end=\"1702\">Who She Works For<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1705\" data-end=\"1890\">Hume is not an independent actor. She serves <strong data-start=\"1750\" data-end=\"1782\">four ancient media dynasties<\/strong>, their patriarchs now in their late seventies and eighties, along with their equally decrepit financiers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1892\" data-end=\"2078\">These men are relics of another era \u2014 but their grip on Britain\u2019s press, television, and political access is still suffocatingly strong. They are the rot at the root of the media tree:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"2079\" data-end=\"2259\">\n<li data-start=\"2079\" data-end=\"2130\">\n<p data-start=\"2081\" data-end=\"2130\">They own the channels that decide what you see.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"2131\" data-end=\"2181\">\n<p data-start=\"2133\" data-end=\"2181\">They own the papers that decide what you read.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"2182\" data-end=\"2259\">\n<p data-start=\"2184\" data-end=\"2259\">And they own the lawyers who decide what you\u2019re allowed to know in court.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"2261\" data-end=\"2356\">For them, an assault on a disabled man in open court is not an outrage \u2014 it is a <strong data-start=\"2342\" data-end=\"2353\">message<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"2357\" data-end=\"2444\">\n<p data-start=\"2359\" data-end=\"2444\">We can do anything. Anywhere. To anyone. And the record will say it never happened.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr data-start=\"2446\" data-end=\"2449\" \/>\n<h3 data-start=\"2451\" data-end=\"2483\"><strong data-start=\"2455\" data-end=\"2481\">The Global Crime Scene<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"2484\" data-end=\"2752\">The London case is only one battlefield. In <strong data-start=\"2528\" data-end=\"2549\">Antigua &amp; Barbuda<\/strong>, these same oligarch families and financiers are named in a separate, sovereign litigation that exposes their offshore banking systems, fossil fuel contracts, and links to illicit content suppression.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2754\" data-end=\"2836\">The same banks.<br data-start=\"2769\" data-end=\"2772\" \/>The same corporate shells.<br data-start=\"2798\" data-end=\"2801\" \/>The same Howard Kennedy playbook.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2838\" data-end=\"2927\">Hume\u2019s role is constant: protect the syndicate, delay the reckoning, bury the evidence.<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"2929\" data-end=\"2932\" \/>\n<h3 data-start=\"2934\" data-end=\"2977\"><strong data-start=\"2938\" data-end=\"2975\">This Is Not Law \u2014 This Is Lawfare<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"2978\" data-end=\"3113\">This isn\u2019t the British legal system working slowly. This is the British legal system being <strong data-start=\"3069\" data-end=\"3110\">weaponised against its own principles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"3114\" data-end=\"3269\">\n<li data-start=\"3114\" data-end=\"3144\">\n<p data-start=\"3116\" data-end=\"3144\">Violence in the courtroom.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"3145\" data-end=\"3169\">\n<p data-start=\"3147\" data-end=\"3169\">Lies in the filings.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"3170\" data-end=\"3197\">\n<p data-start=\"3172\" data-end=\"3197\">Silence from the bench.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"3198\" data-end=\"3269\">\n<p data-start=\"3200\" data-end=\"3269\">A media blackout from outlets owned by the very people who benefit.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"3271\" data-end=\"3407\">The fact that this involves a disabled victim makes it not just a scandal, but a <strong data-start=\"3352\" data-end=\"3404\">human rights violation in full view of the state<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"3409\" data-end=\"3412\" \/>\n<h3 data-start=\"3414\" data-end=\"3454\"><strong data-start=\"3418\" data-end=\"3452\">Why Everyone Should Be Furious<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"3455\" data-end=\"3683\">If they can do this to a disabled man in the King\u2019s Bench Division, what chance do you think you have?<br data-start=\"3557\" data-end=\"3560\" \/>This is the message Rebecca Hume\u2019s actions send: justice is not your right \u2014 it\u2019s a privilege sold to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"3685\" data-end=\"3688\" \/>\n<h3 data-start=\"3690\" data-end=\"3722\"><strong data-start=\"3694\" data-end=\"3720\">The Only Question Left<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"3723\" data-end=\"3996\">The evidence is in the filings. The witnesses exist. The timeline is clear.<br data-start=\"3798\" data-end=\"3801\" \/>The only question is whether the British judiciary will confront the reality that <strong data-start=\"3883\" data-end=\"3941\">one of their own officers helped erase a violent crime<\/strong> from the record to serve a dying, corrupt oligarchy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3998\" data-end=\"4083\">Because if they don\u2019t \u2014 this isn\u2019t just Rebecca Hume\u2019s disgrace.<br data-start=\"4062\" data-end=\"4065\" \/>It\u2019s theirs too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Day Justice Died in the King\u2019s Bench Division In Britain\u2019s most prestigious courtroom \u2014 the King\u2019s Bench Division \u2014 a disabled man was physically assaulted in plain view.The attacker: Ajay Founellier. Official headshots of Howard Kennedy LLP personnel, as displayed on the firm\u2019s public website. 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