London riots: Harry Potter actor Jamie Waylett jailed

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An actor who featured in the Harry Potter films has been jailed for two years for his part in the London riots.

Jamie Waylett, 22, who played Hogwarts bully Vincent Crabbe, was found guilty of violent disorder at London’s Wood Green Crown Court.

Waylett, of Hillfield Road, Hampstead, north-west London, admitted swigging from a stolen bottle of Champagne.

But the actor was cleared of intending to destroy or damage property with a petrol bomb he was pictured holding.

Waylett was with a gang of at least four people who went into Chalk Farm on 8 August.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17449630
 
LemonAndLime said:
An actor who featured in the Harry Potter films has been jailed for two years for his part in the London riots.

Jamie Waylett, 22, who played Hogwarts bully Vincent Crabbe, was found guilty of violent disorder at London’s Wood Green Crown Court.

Waylett, of Hillfield Road, Hampstead, north-west London, admitted swigging from a stolen bottle of Champagne.

But the actor was cleared of intending to destroy or damage property with a petrol bomb he was pictured holding.

Waylett was with a gang of at least four people who went into Chalk Farm on 8 August.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17449630
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Wonder if the guy who played Draco Malfoy will be next?

Who knows?

LOL. :rotfl::rotfl:
 
Oh the irony,he played a bad kid…and now he’s arrested for doing the same things the character might have done!
 
So the kid is famous and certainly has money but he decides to be a fool and loot? Stupid, Oh well, reap what you sow.
 
The youth of today’s society really need our prayers.

God bless
 
Bezant said:
LOL, now that you mention it, I suspected Tom Felton was one of those people stealing rice from Tesco… :rotfl:
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:eek:

He’s a nice guy really. Although I suspect (and have been proven by the recent planet of the apes film) that he’s always gonna be cast as a “baddie” because the general public already associate him with Malfoy.
 
PrincepsAuguste said:
What’s the matter with the Harry Potter movies/their cast? 🤷
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I’m told they open up a gateway thought process that it’s OK to use magic and supernatural powers to gain advantage over your fellow man. Once again the devil scores huge in providing popular books and movies that the faithful must defend or caution against.
 
Carolus_Martell said:
I’m told they open up a gateway thought process that it’s OK to use magic and supernatural powers to gain advantage over your fellow man. Once again the devil scores huge in providing popular books and movies that the faithful must defend or caution against.
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Or read and enjoy like a normal person, because normal people can distinguish between fiction and reality.

What’s next? Reading LOTR makes Catholics believe they’re orcs, danger!
 
LemonAndLime said:
:eek:

He’s a nice guy really. Although I suspect (and have been proven by the recent planet of the apes film) that he’s always gonna be cast as a “baddie” because the general public already associate him with Malfoy.
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Yes, he is a nice guy 😉 his life’s ambition is apparently to be a fisherman. You can’t be more genuine than that after starring in a major film series. His “dad” Lucius Malfoy (Jason Isaacs) is very down-to-earth in real life as well.
 
LemonAndLime said:
:eek:

He’s a nice guy really. Although I suspect (and have been proven by the recent planet of the apes film) that he’s always gonna be cast as a “baddie” because the general public already associate him with Malfoy.
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Unfortunately, yes.

Good actor, though.

And too bad about his receding hairline at such a young age. I can empathize, though, since I’m 40 and mostly bald.

Interesting thread.

Indeed. :LOL.
 
LemonAndLime said:
An actor who featured in the Harry Potter films has been jailed for two years for his part in the London riots.

Waylett, of Hillfield Road, Hampstead, north-west London, admitted swigging from a stolen bottle of Champagne.
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2 years for drinking a simple swig of champagne? He didn’t even steal the whole bottle?

Boy, I’m all for giving heck to rioters, but overreaction much???!
 
VeritasLuxMea said:
2 years for drinking a simple swig of champagne? He didn’t even steal the whole bottle?

Boy, I’m all for giving heck to rioters, but overreaction much???!
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As Jharek says the sentences for any crimes related to the riots were deliberately set higher than normal. Judges were instructed (and quite happily complied) by politicians to make sentences unusually harsh. A lot of damage was done and not all shops were going to get enough compensation to cover their losses, so the least that could be done was to make sure perpetrators got severe sentences, regardless of their role.

I live in the Midlands in a major city, and some people tried to start a riot in a shopping centre. We were there shopping anyway on the date, and there were police vans outside and about a hundred policeman patrolling the mall in the last few hours it was open. The guy who created the facebook page trying to incite it was jailed too, even though nothing happened.
 
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