He’s just joking
A former soldier turned keyboard warrior has been hit with a restraining order after a terrifying hate campaign directed at a number of successful women including a leading barrister.
David Mottershead, 42, who claimed to be standing up for ‘men’s rights’ sent death threats to various successful women including Dr Charlotte Proudman, leaving her fearing for her life.
The ex-soldier posted a chilling picture of himself holding a gun, with his face smeared in camouflage paint and his finger on the trigger aiming at Dr Proudman, telling her: ‘You’ll panic as I inhale your last breath’ in a tweet addressed to her.
Free speech innit.
Mottershead, who was later found to have armed himself with a knife, posted videos across Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok last November after becoming enraged by Dr Proudman
Mottershead, from Machynlleth in Wales, who styled himself a ‘Men’s Rights Advocate’, compared the feminist Barrister to Hitler and threatened to destroy her career.
In perhaps the most chilling of his posts, the ex-army officer wrote, ‘I’ll find out your blood group so I can keep you alive long enough that you understand.’
In a TikTok Video filmed outside Aberystwyth Police Station, Mottershead repeats the line: ‘You’ll panic as I inhale your last breath’.
But apparently that’s not a threat.
Mottershead was cleared of putting Ms Proudman in fear that violence would be used against her by his course of conduct but found guilty of carrying a knife.
That’s hard to understand.
Dr Jess Taylor, a Chartered Psychologist who holds a PHD in Forensic Psychology, was also targeted by the ex-soldier.
Dr Taylor said: ‘I truly believe he’ll go on to do something really terrible. He is a really, really dangerous individual. And it’s the obsession and the fixation that makes him so dangerous. He will not stop. This has been going on for years.
‘He is obsessed with any successful, especially feminist women or women who talk about male violence.’
But it’s just talk. Until it isn’t.
Imagine the sentence if his targets had been TiMs.
Well, quite. This seems to be the current state of the law in the UK:
It’s perfectly understandable that a man will use rather enthusiastic language when trying to prevent women from speaking about male violence against women; how dare women think that they can get away with expressing an opinion about anything.
This is the same UK where police will descend on women who upset a TIM online by pointing out that men cannot be women? The same UK where police go after a woman who said things that are “untoward to pedophiles” online? Is it just me or do the authorities in many countries just seem to be trying to provoke the normies into responding in some way that gives the authorities the excuse to go even further in destroying the rights of the non-compliant peons?
So I’m assuming this was a toy gun? My understanding was that owning a firearm (except very specific types and with a permit) got you in some serious deep shit over there…
I find the trivia the British police waste their time on in lieu of tackling serious crime, and a judgement such as this (particularly after the murder of Jo Cox), peculiar. It is as though the police are interested in essentially performative activities that they think will demonstrate their nice liberal convictions in order to conceal the corruption that dogs them. As for the judgement it would be risible were it not so dangerous..
Not just the Police Tim, the Courts and Parliament as well. Because of the prevalence of knife related crime in the UK they take possession of a knife really seriously. I mean you might stab a guy with a knife. Abuse, threats of violence, or actual assault, rape, or murder of women? Much more meh. Sadly I’m not sure anywhere much takes that as seriously as it should be.
I imagine that most people were unaware of the existence of Machynlleth before this event, but I was, and I went there, I think in 1979, where I bought a copy of Teach Yourself Welsh. It was the sort of place where one couldn’t imagine anything terrible happening apart from the usual rural crimes. But universal access to the Internet has changed all that. There is nowhere now where you cannot issue threats to anyone you feel like. In addition to the Internet, we now have “experts” who have no use for common sense. A psychopath attacked several people with a knife in Paris, near the Eiffel Tower, a couple of days ago, killing one and injuring two others. He had served four years in prison for a similar offence in 2016, but the psychiatrists who examined him decided that he was no longer a public danger and could safely be allowed to resume his life after release from prison.