Britain has a two-tier justice system, Robert Jenrick claims as a pro-Palestinian protester is spared jail for spitting at a police officer during clash in central London By CAMERON CHARTERS Published: 21:58 EDT, 29 March 2025 | Updated: 21:59 EDT, 29 March 2025 e-mail View comments Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick lambasted Britain's 'two-tier justice system' after it emerged a pro-Palestinian protester dodged jail despite spitting on two police officers. Jamila Zadran, 32, was caught on film spitting at the constables during a clash between Israeli and Palestinian protesters on January 18 in central London . She claimed she did not mean to spit at the officers and was ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid work.
But her sentence drew comparisons with a far-Right protester jailed for more than two years for spitting on and goading an officer at a demonstration. Mr Jenrick labelled the judge's decision to spare Zadran 'ridiculous'. He told The Mail on Sunday: 'It is ridiculous that the judge did not think the protester deliberately spat at the police officer.
'The footage is clear cut. This will only add to the perception that we have a two-tier justice system where fashionable causes are treated more leniently.' When Daniel McGuire, 45, spat on an officer in Plymouth last year during an extremist rally, he was locked up for 26 months.
McGuire was charged with violent disorder after the protest, organised in the aftermath of the Southport stabbings. Shadow Justice Secretary.
