Jud Casper

Jud Casper is the main antagonist in the 1969 Ken Loach film Kes and the Freddie as F.R.O.7.: The Series episode, Flower Girl. Jud is the older brother of a tormented working class boy named Billy Casper. He was a human man who hated magical beings and wanted to commit genocide against them. Despite his small participation, he is responsible for Juniper's villainy and the creation of the Grove Without Magic.

Not much is known about Jud other than the fact that he works in the Yorkshire coal mines and his hobbies include betting on horse races. Once such time Jud leaves Billy £10 and a note to place the money on 2 horses. Billy goes to the bookmaker who warns Billy that neither horse Jud wants to put money on is likely to win the race. Convinced by the bookmaker that it would have been a waste of money to place the bets, Billy spends the money on fish and chips as well as some meat for a baby kestrel he chanced upon.

After hearing that one of the 2 horses actually won the race afterall, Jud is furious when he discovers that Billy didn't place the winning bet and feels cheated that Billy had scammed him out of a £16 win (which could have got him a week off work). Initially Jud attempts to chase down Billy at the school he goes to however Billy hides in a caretaker's cupboard so Jud murders the kestrel instead.

Personality
Jud at first fakes to be a kind and polite young man introducing him, his brother and his human friends to Juniper. However, when Juniper reveals her powers to him, Billy, and Jud's friends, Jud shows his true nature: he is genocidal, xenophobic, cruel, arrogant, murderous, sadistic and dangerous. Jud wishes to exterminate the race of magical creatures and the magic of the world that has become without magic. He is also shown to be controlling, as he refuses to let Billy be sympathetic towards Juniper, and is only concerned about himself when Juniper attacks the humans in the South Yorkshire Community at the festival.

History
One day, Billy sadly buries his kestrel on a hill overlooking the town when Juniper, a curious tree nymph, sneaks behind him. Seeing the earth, she uses her own magic to cause a garden to blossom, unaware that Jud and his friends have entered the scene. When Jud makes himself known, Juniper begins to panic and begs him not to tell anyone that she can do magic, but Jud lies that he is fine with her having magic and wants to learn it, declaring Juniper their new friend and inviting her to join them at the Summer festival that night.

At the festival, Jud asks Juniper to go ahead and start teaching them magic, but Billy attempts to protect Juniper by reminding Jud that she can't do it in public. Instead, Jud takes Juniper, Billy, and his co-workers to an abandoned building. Despite Billy telling her not to do it if she doesn't want to, Juniper demonstrates her magic by reviving a flower. Only then, Jud shows the monster within by smashing the flower with his shoe and then has his friends hold Juniper in place as he dumps mud on her head, mocking her for trying to be human although her magic cannot hide what she really is. Billy, meanwhile, can only watch with horrified shock as Juniper is tormented. Jud also steals the key Juniper wears around her neck and then begins leaving with the other men, except Billy who pauses and stares at Juniper regretfully before Jud prompts him to follow. Jud later leads his friends, except Billy, to the tree nymphs' home using Juniper's key, where they kill them all with fire and axes.

After seeing the destruction that befell her home, Juniper returns to the festival, having revenge on Jud. Jud attempts to have the police strike her down, but Juniper uses her magic to impale them with tree roots. As the attendees of the festival panic, Juniper wraps Jud with another tree root and, as he pleads for his life, snaps his neck, killing him immediately.

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Jud is killed by Juniper.

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Trivia

 * Jud appears in some scenes in a single episode, however, his genocidal actions that exterminated the magical inhabitants of our world, led to the creation of a grove without magic. Without the grove without magic, there would be no reason why the tourists would have come here, no reason why Freddie and his companions would have come here and restore the grove and check it out, and the episode would have taken a different turn.