Woman who ‘milkshaked’ UK anti-immigration firebrand Farage spared jail

A woman who admitted throwing a milkshake at the right-wing Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during the general election campaign escaped jail Monday.

Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, admitted assault by beating after Brexit figurehead Farage was doused as he left a pub in Clacton, east of London, on June 4.

Tan Ikram, a judge at London’s Westminster Magistrate’s Court, sentenced Thomas Bowen to a 13-week jail term, but suspended the punishment for 12 months, meaning she will be spared prison unless she reoffends

Farage, now MP for Clacton and whose party opposes “non-essential” immigration, criticised the sentence.”We now live in a country where you can assault a member of parliament and not go to prison,” he wrote on the X social media platform.

The politician said it was “the latest example of two-tier justice”.

He told court in a victim impact statement read out by prosecutors that he “felt humiliated” by the incident, which he said was part of “a growing security concern”.

Thomas Bowen’s lawyer said she had received “multiple threats” since the incident.

Following the July election, Reform UK has five seats in the 650 seat parliament, although it won roughly 14 percent of total votes cast