A TRUCK DRIVER who referred to refugees as \u201crape-ugees\u201d and threatened to throw their \u201cbleeding corpses into the sea\u201d will be sentenced this morning for incitement to hatred.<\/p>\n
In January 2023, Graham Carey (42) made a livestream on Instagram in which he said that refugees \u201cwere here to rape women and children\u201d. He also called on listeners to gather at Finglas garda station in north Dublin.<\/p>\n
The recording was made in the days following an allegation by a local woman that she had been sexually assaulted by a refugee. This led to days of anti-migrant protests even after it emerged that the alleged assault involved a local white male.<\/p>\n
Carey\u2019s 30-minute livestream on 30 January was also recorded and posted on social media.<\/p>\n
Carey of Dunsink Drive, Finglas was subsequently arrested and charged with using words that were threatening, abusive or insulting and intended to or likely to stir up hatred, He was also charged with distribution of a recording of images or sound likely to stir up hatred.<\/p>\n
He pleaded not guilty to both offences, which are contrary to the 1989 Prohibition of Incitement To Hatred Act. A jury returned unanimous guilty verdicts on both counts last April after a trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.<\/p>\n
At the sentence hearing on Thursday morning, Detective Inspector Gavin Ross told prosecuting counsel, Diarmaid Collins SC, the offences took place in the context of \u201cdisquiet\u201d in the Finglas area after the spreading of misinformation about an alleged sex assault.<\/p>\n
He said investigations later determined that the alleged incident did not involve refugees or \u201cpeople from another country\u201d. Later Carey, who was representing himself, accused the garda witness of not doing his job and said \u201cthere was never a rape in Finglas, they set it up to get me\u201d and claimed he was \u201ca political prisoner\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ross told Collins that Carey had led groups of people on protest marches about immigrants around Finglas on a number of occasions. Collins read out a transcript of the recorded livestream in which he said Carey \u201cdirected venom\u201d at asylum seekers.<\/p>\n
In the livestream, Carey states that the government is \u201crewarding evil\u201d by allowing \u201crape-ugees\u201d into the country \u201cin order that they can rape our people\u201d. He tells his audience that this is \u201cputting your daughters on the fucking menu for them\u201d.<\/p>\n
He continued, saying \u201cOur own people are going to be raped by them. These are not refugees. We are going to get these fucking rapists out of here.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGet back to where yiz (sic) came from. Get the fuck out of here before you die on this island. If you refuse to get the fuck out of here you\u2019re going to die on the island and we\u2019ll fuck your bleeding corpse into the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going back to the law of the land. We have enough local lads to do what has to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n
At this point the defendant objected to this evidence. He argued that in his evidence at trial the witness \u201cdidn\u2019t say anything about throwing corpses into the sea\u201d.<\/p>\n
Judge Patricia Ryan allowed the evidence to continue and told Carey he would have an opportunity to cross-examine the witness.<\/p>\n
The detective inspector said Carey told listeners \u201cwe\u2019re here because women are being raped, Facebook want your children raped. If we don\u2019t see this as a war there we are going to lose the war.\u201d<\/p>\n
The garda witness told the court that Carey went on to call on listeners to gather at the garda station. He said that Carey stated that \u201cif garda\u00ed don\u2019t get out he wasn\u2019t responsible for what happened in the garda station\u201d.<\/p>\n
During the trial Carey asserted he was in Northern Ireland when he recorded the livestream. The prosecution then led evidence to show he was driving an articulated lorry in this jurisdiction.<\/p>\n
The trial also viewed footage of a \u201ccouple of hundred\u201d people being led by Carey into Finglas garda station. Counsel said that \u201cin fairness to Carey\u201d he could be seen trying to calm things down while inside the station.<\/p>\n
Ross replied that \u201cthat\u2019s the tactic\u2026to lead the mob in\u201d. A number of supporters in court made vocal protests at this evidence.<\/p>\n
The court heard that Carey has previous convictions for careless driving and driving while over the limit, intoxication in a public place and threatening and abusive behaviour and two speeding offences.<\/p>\n
Under cross-examination Carey put it to Ross that \u201cI was treated like a terrorist in your care\u201d. The garda inspector denied this and told Carey he was detained under anti-terrorist legislation, but he was treated the same as any other person in detention.<\/p>\n
Asked why he or his colleagues had not investigated any of the \u201ccrimes\u201d Carey \u201creported\u201d during his interview under detention Ross replied \u201cI don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about\u201d. Carey clarified that this also included reporting crimes that would be committed in the future.<\/p>\n
Judge Ryan adjourned finalisation to this morning and remanded Carey on continuing bail. Carey said he had a number of handwritten testimonials which he wanted to hand into court for consideration in sentencing.<\/p>\n
Judge Ryan asked the defendant to provide copies of these to the prosecution \u201cout of fairness\u201d.<\/p>\n
The court previously heard that after his arrest Carey\u2019s reply to the charge was: \u201cIn hindsight, it won\u2019t be happening again; I will be taking a different approach going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
At an appearance at Dublin District Court, Carey said the video was referring to undocumented migrants.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was talking about undocumented migrants that have been brought into my area,\u201d he told the court, adding that refugees were welcome but not the undocumented.<\/p>\n
Carey represented himself during the trial and had a number of supporters in court throughout. Around 30 people were in court for the sentence hearing on Thursday morning and Judge Ryan had to repeatedly ask people to respect the formality of the court and not to shout or cheer.<\/p>\n
The case was previously listed for sentence on 19 June. On that date Carey told Judge Ryan that he wished to have professional representation but that he had been unable to get a solicitor to come on record.<\/p>\n
Judge Ryan adjourned sentencing to 3 July to give him more time to find a solicitor. On that date he told the court that he still had no solicitor and Judge Ryan again adjourned sentencing.<\/p>\n
On that date Carey also made application to vary his bail conditions, specifically the ban on the use of social media and not being allowed to attend protests. Garda\u00ed objected to this, saying they still have concerns about his use of social media.<\/p>\n
Carey told the court that he had been criticising government policies not refugees.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was also tried by media and was unable to get a fair trial. I don\u2019t understand who is in danger from me being on social media,\u201d he submitted.<\/p>\n
Judge Ryan rejected his application and noted that Carey had \u201clost the presumption of innocence\u201d.<\/p>\n
The offences come with a maximum penalty of a fine of \u20ac10,000 or two years imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A TRUCK DRIVER who referred to refugees as \u201crape-ugees\u201d and threatened to throw their \u201cbleeding corpses into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,615,23739,238841,47262,61,238842,60,43,32231,58],"class_list":["post-565599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-courts","tag-dublin","tag-finglas","tag-graham-carey","tag-hate-speech","tag-ie","tag-incitement-to-hatred","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-refugees","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}