Seems John Wilson won't be bothering us as much for a couple of years...
Sydney dentist jailed for throwing yellow paint over judge
Source: AAP | Published: Tuesday November 9 2:40:23 PM
A dentist was jailed for two years today for hurling yellow paint at a
judge who had dismissed his case attacking the legal system.
After Justice James Wood imposed the sentence, 57-year-old John Wilson
was immediately handcuffed in the New South Wales Supreme Court and led away.
The judge accepted Wilson, of North Rocks in Sydney's north-west, who
has no criminal record, genuinely believed in the injustice of the legal
system but said the contempt of court was most serious.
Wilson, who repeatedly told Justice Wood he was entitled to be tried by
a jury rather than the judge, said he regarded the paintbombs as a
harmless gesture.
'It was a deliberate attempt to put issues of bank fraud, which have
caused untold misery and hardship to people of Australia ... and judges
lying to protect that crime,' he said.
Wilson was found guilty of two counts of contempt after he threw plastic
bags of paint at Acting Justice Brian Murray, who had just handed down a
decision in the NSW Supreme Court, on September 5, 1997.
The yellow paint splashed onto the judge's suit, the court reporter's
dress, the carpet and the bench.
The plastic bags were concealed in a hollowed out ringbound folder.
Justice Murray had dismissed Wilson's claim against seven judicial
officers whom he alleged were parties to lies and conspired to pervert
the course of justice when they presided over his dispute with a bank.
Wilson, who acted for himself at today's contempt hearing, repeatedly
said Justice Wood had no jurisidiction over him and he was entitled to
be heard by a jury.
'I have found judges are liars, criminals and traitors,' he said.
'I have no confidence in you or the system as it stands, it must be
rebuilt, it must be dismantled.'
He denied being in contempt of court, saying he had great respect for a
court when it administered truth and justice, but he said Justice Murray
had administered injustice.
Further, he said the Supreme Court concealed bank fraud and conspired to
protect the banks.
In finding the contempt to be very serious, Justice Wood said it was a
case of premeditation rather than a spontaneous outburst.
In rejecting his call for a jury trial, the judge said it was well
established the court had the jurisdiction to deal with contempt matters
through judge-alone hearings.
Fellow member of FLAC (For Legally Abused Citizens) Raymond Lovett told
the court his friend Wilson was an honest, decent citizen.
'I just wonder whether paint, to some people, is sufficient,' Mr Lovett said.
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