Man jailed for trying to protect his family.

**field marshall watkins** · 9th-November-2007

Daily Mail

Solicitor jailed for snatching own baby daughter from social workers

A solicitor who snatched his baby from two care workers before going on the run has been jailed for 20 months.

Jonathan Phillips, 40, punched the two women, one of whom was heavily pregnant, before grabbing his daughter and speeding away in his car.

The child had been taken into care because of concerns over his wife's mental health - although the couple insist she does not present a risk.

They were allowed to visit their daughter for two hours every day at a family contact centre in King's Lynn, Norfolk. But Phillips lashed out because he felt staff were treating her too roughly.

He shouted, "Take your hands off my baby" before overturning a table, attacking the women and seizing his child, who was four months old at the time.

Phillips, a soldier in the Territorial Army, fled with his wife Erica and the child, who cannot be named for legal reasons. They were stopped on the M6 near Birmingham later the same day.

Phillips, of Downham Market, Norfolk, was sent to prison after admitting kidnap and two charges of assault causing actual bodily harm.

Before he was sentenced he said: "I was acting under extreme provocation. Social services had taken our baby into care under dubious circumstances and whenever we visited her, the staff handled her roughly, overfed her and generally ill-treated her.

"I lashed out in the heat of the moment. I could see my family crumbling before me.

"Now the tragedy is that she looks set to be adopted and we will not be able to see her again until she is 18."

Norwich Crown Court heard that Norfolk County Council gained an interim care order in May to place the child in foster care because of Mrs Phillips's mental health. The couple say they have independent evidence showing she was capable of looking after her baby.

Mark Shelley, defending, said Phillips was "a well respected and popular solicitor".

"It was not a planned snatch," he said. "It was a culmination of emotions as he could see his daughter slipping away from him."

The court heard the two care workers suffered cuts and bruises during the attack in August.

Phillips was jailed on Tuesday for 12 months for kidnap and eight months to run consecutively for the assaults.

"These are extremely serious charges and I cannot see them in any other light," Judge Paul Downes told him.

Mrs Phillips, a qualified cardiology nurse, said afterwards that staff at the contact centre were rude and would go out of their way to upset them. She added: 'My husband is a decent man and a kind and loving father and had no criminal convictions before this.'

Norfolk County Council said the sentence sent out a strong message that violence against its staff was unacceptable.

My comment on this here,
End of Men

**FFFF** · 9th-November-2007

Time we showed the state where to shove it..

**Marx** · 9th-November-2007

A soldier has fallen.

I don't agree with violence at any rate, as many will know, but I can't blame the man for this reaction. I know from having endured time at contact centers myself, that while you're there - your emotional state IS charged. There are too many emotions running.

You're angry - that you have to be there & treated like a prisoner.
You're ecstatic - to see your children.
You're sad - seeing others in the same situation.
Many more.

**Feminist_Scum** · 9th-November-2007

He should be punished for assault, and that's it. Taking a child away because the mother was mentally ill is ridiculous. My mother has suffered from severe mentall illness for as long as she's lived, yet she was never a danger to me, or any of my siblings.

If I was the mother, and father, I'd be incredibly pissed off. Unless the child was in immediate danger, they had no fucking business taking their child away. If anyone is guilty of kidnap, it's the fucking state.

If they want to take someone's child away, they should start with my 6 year old niece, who's mother is a crack head.

**FFFF** · 9th-November-2007

Quote from Feminist_Scum

He should be punished for assault, and that's it. Taking a child away because the mother was mentally ill is ridiculous. My mother has suffered from severe mentall illness for as long as she's lived, yet she was never a danger to me, or any of my siblings.

If I was the mother, and father, I'd be incredibly pissed off. Unless the child was in immediate danger, they had no fucking business taking their child away. If anyone is guilty of kidnap, it's the fucking state.

If they want to take someone's child away, they should start with my 6 year old niece, who's mother is a crack head.

Yes, I too know of a mother of 2 of my own kids who was seriosuly neglecting them, while also denying the kids best interests to be in my home, not hers, aided and abbetted by vile SS feminazi's, even against the wishes of the cafcass officer who said they would be be better with me..

Thanks to the state sector parasites fucking the whole job up, now I have no contact with the kids and no particular inclination to go through another 4 years of pissing around in courts and dealing with disgusting feminazi filth.

These fuckers digust me and no way should anyone be guilty of kidnapping their own kids.

The state is stealing our children.

They deserve zero respect and actions against them in whatever form is deemed appropriate by the father concerned.

Fuck the courts.

**FFFF** · 9th-November-2007

Women need help when they cant parent, (that "help" tends to be more damaging when the incompetent state parasites fuck it up..) men need criminalising and jailing when they try to be parents..

What better example of the vile standards of the established and entrenched feminist filth can there be?

**Feminist_Scum** · 9th-November-2007

It's amazing really. My sister had her 6 year old daughter taken away from her for abandonment, and got her back after several months. My sister takes cocaine, heroin, god knows what other drugs, AND is an alcoholic. It's amazing, the woman is totally inept, with a drug dealer boyfriend, yet still manages to keep hold of her kid.

An ALLEGED mentally ill woman gets her child taken from her, the father who is perfectly capable, also gets his child taken from him, (what a fucking surprise, just more proof the system is biased against men) the social services abuse the kid, the man reacts, and gets thrown in prison. Yeah OK, fuck off.