Overview

• On August 13 at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court, District Judge Timothy Boswell handed Shaw a 14-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months
• Shaw must complete 20 days of rehabilitation activity and a six-month drug treatment course under court order
• A two-year restraining order prohibits him from contacting Sunak or his Richmond and Northallerton constituency office
• Prosecutors said Shaw sent two racist emails on June 15, 2024 suggesting the public should kill Sunak, which police traced to his mobile phone and a Birkenhead hostel
• Judge Boswell warned that misusing direct public access to an MP undermines democracy, and CPS prosecutor Matthew Dixon said the messages fell beyond the boundary of free expression