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‘Tough on crime and tough on the courses of crime’
Nothing could more graphically illustrate the gulf between public opinion and governmental and judicial attitudes than the controversy over the result of the BBC Radio 4 poll on new laws.
The majority of listeners voted in favour of a Martin’s Law, to allow householders the right to use virtually any means to repel burglars. Labour MP Stephen Pound, who had promised to promote a Private Member’s Bill in Parliament for the winning idea, swiftly recanted.
In Italy just such a law has been enacted.
It is high time the pendulum was weighted in favour of law-abiding citizens and away from the politically correct defense of the offenders.
I have long held the view that any person injured in the event of trespass or other
illegal activity should be deemed to be the author of their own misfortune. At the present time if a burglar enters your property and injures himself, Say by tripping on a loose carpet and falling down stairs, he is quite likely to successfully sue you for any injury he sustains.
With the exception of rape, invasion of the privacy of her home by burglary is
probably the most traumatic experience for a woman. The experience is so harrowing that in many cases she never again feels safe in her home. In some cases they even move house at a cost of thousands of pounds whilst the perpetrators are treated by the courts as petty criminals.
‘Tough on crime and tough on the courses of crime’
Nothing could more graphically illustrate the gulf between public opinion and governmental and judicial attitudes than the controversy over the result of the BBC Radio 4 poll on new laws.
The majority of listeners voted in favour of a Martin’s Law, to allow householders the right to use virtually any means to repel burglars. Labour MP Stephen Pound, who had promised to promote a Private Member’s Bill in Parliament for the winning idea, swiftly recanted.
In Italy just such a law has been enacted.
It is high time the pendulum was weighted in favour of law-
I have long held the view that any person injured in the event of trespass or other
illegal activity should be deemed to be the author of their own misfortune. At the present time if a burglar enters your property and injures himself, Say by tripping on a loose carpet and falling down stairs, he is quite likely to successfully sue you for any injury he sustains.
With the exception of rape, invasion of the privacy of her home by burglary is
probably the most traumatic experience for a woman. The experience is so harrowing that in many cases she never again feels safe in her home. In some cases they even move house at a cost of thousands of pounds whilst the perpetrators are treated by the courts as petty criminals.
Major problems call for major solutions. A warning may be perfectly adequate for a first offender, however subsequent offences should automatically mean a custodial sentence. This should increase with every subsequent conviction with loss of remission rights. Let all the bleeding heart liberals use their energies visiting the miscreants in prison in their efforts to understand them.
A car, after a house, is probably the second most expensive item purchased by the average person. Taking a motor vehicle should be a much more serious offence than under current legislation. Robbing a bank of the equivalent value would attract a prison sentence in excess of ten years. Whilst not advocating
this, an automatic custodial sentence would have a dramatic effect on the crime figures. It is time taking a motor vehicle was stopped being treated as petty crime.
In the opinion of the Home Office the list of low-level crimes include: criminal damage, vehicle crime, violence against the person, burglary, theft, robbery and assaults on the Police. Note the absence of motoring offences!
Many of these offences are now to be rewarded with a fine of UP TO £500 and will not count as a criminal conviction. When did any court in the country last apply a maximum sentence for anything?
Whatever happened to zero tolerance.
The Crown Prosecution service halted proceedings against 25,000 offenders last year. Officials admitted the vast majority of cases were dropped because prosecutors are snowed under. The official reason is that it is in the public interest. What about the interests of the victims.
Peter Goodger, 45 criticsed the CPS for dropping the case against the thugs who left him fighting for his life after they attacked him, stamping on his head.
GUNS In 2003 Ministers introduced a mandatory punishment for criminals over 18 caught with a gun to a minimum of five years imprisonment. Despite this measure judges sentenced 1,039 for the offence in the first two years but only 218 received the at least five years in jail, 21%. Apparently most of the offences are caused by youngsters under 18. Why on earth hasn’t the age been lowered to counteract growing gun crime among the young.
Knives The maximum jail term for carrying a knife has been increased from two years to four. In 2005 police arrested 8,950 yobs for the offence, only 965 were jailed, most of whom were released within weeks.. Only 26 received a sentence over a year. In 2005 there were 25,500 street robberies involving blades, in the year to April 2007 the number had risen to 64,000.
24 hour drinking A Home Office survey on the effects of 24 hour opening omitted the fact that town centre serious violent crime had increased by 130% during the early hours. The Home Office stated that the increase was not statistically significant.
On the other hand Businessman Peter Bayliss dialled 999 when his son was knocked unconscious by a drunken thug who kicked him several times in the head. The police said they were too busy to attend but suggested he could contact his MP if he was not happy with that. The thug has not been caught.
Community Support Officers stood by while ten year old Jordon Lyon drowned in a pond.. Apparently they are instructed not to go into dangerous situations because they are not trained to do so. How much training does it take to act as a human being in such a situation?
Police have now given a green light to shoplifters by saying they will not attend if the theft is less than £75 in value. Am I alone in thinking someone has their priorities wrong?
What world are our politicians living in?
Under a new law now before parliament bailiffs are to be given the right to break into peoples homes to take possession of goods and chattels. Many of these people are on a par with the wheel-clampers. On a recent T.V. Programme bailiffs took goods that had cost £8500 and sold them at auction for less than £1,000 reducing a couples debts by about £600. Who on earth was this ridiculous action supposed to benefit?
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In the opinion of the Home Office the list of low-
Many of these offences are now to be rewarded with a fine of UP TO £500 and will not count as a criminal conviction. When did any court in the country last apply a maximum sentence for anything?
Whatever happened to zero tolerance.
The Crown Prosecution service halted proceedings against 25,000 offenders last year. Officials admitted the vast majority of cases were dropped because prosecutors are snowed under. The official reason is that it is in the public interest. What about the interests of the victims.
Peter Goodger, 45 criticsed the CPS for dropping the case against the thugs who left him fighting for his life after they attacked him, stamping on his head.
GUNS In 2003 Ministers introduced a mandatory punishment for criminals over 18 caught with a gun to a minimum of five years imprisonment. Despite this measure judges sentenced 1,039 for the offence in the first two years but only 218 received the at least five years in jail, 21%. Apparently most of the offences are caused by youngsters under 18. Why on earth hasn’t the age been lowered to counteract growing gun crime among the young.
Knives The maximum jail term for carrying a knife has been increased from two years to four. In 2005 police arrested 8,950 yobs for the offence, only 965 were jailed, most of whom were released within weeks.. Only 26 received a sentence over a year. In 2005 there were 25,500 street robberies involving blades, in the year to April 2007 the number had risen to 64,000.
24 hour drinking A Home Office survey on the effects of 24 hour opening omitted the fact that town centre serious violent crime had increased by 130% during the early hours. The Home Office stated that the increase was not statistically significant.
On the other hand Businessman Peter Bayliss dialled 999 when his son was knocked unconscious by a drunken thug who kicked him several times in the head. The police said they were too busy to attend but suggested he could contact his MP if he was not happy with that. The thug has not been caught.
Community Support Officers stood by while ten year old Jordon Lyon drowned in a pond.. Apparently they are instructed not to go into dangerous situations because they are not trained to do so. How much training does it take to act as a human being in such a situation?
Police have now given a green light to shoplifters by saying they will not attend if the theft is less than £75 in value. Am I alone in thinking someone has their priorities wrong?
What world are our politicians living in?
Under a new law now before parliament bailiffs are to be given the right to break into peoples homes to take possession of goods and chattels. Many of these people are on a par with the wheel-
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OTT or What?
Alan Rawlinson and his wife Gaynor, a magistrate, who live in St. Helens, received a visit by two police officers who informed them that their son had been accused of a very serious offence. Two other officers visited their son’s primary school. Apparently the eleven year old had sent an e-
A man left his home, picking up post off of the mat on the way. Finding two pieces of junk mail amongst it, he deposited the offending articles in the nearest litter bin. A perfectly reasonable act? Oh no! A jobsworth from the local council issued a summons and he was fined £150 for depositing domestic rubbish in a council bin.
Newsagent Ted Patel from Upminster Essex, received a fixed penalty notice of £50 when a uniformed council official marched into his shop at 7.50 a.m. One morning claiming he had found a piece of paper with his name on it next to a bin 120 yards from his shop. If he contests the fine in court he could be made to pay up to £5,000.
In October 2006, Michael Reeves was fined £200 when Swansea Council officials found a scrap of paper among bottles he had deposited as part of a voluntary recycling scheme.
At Gorton in Manchester an 11 year old boy was sent a £50 penalty notice when an envelope with his name and address on it was found half a mile from his home. Council officials later retracted ,acknowledging it had also been 100 yards from the municipal tip.
Sausage Assault Michael Deegan ,74 was walking home in Wythenshawe Manchester when he got into a dispute with a twelve year old boy. The boy threw a cocktail sausage at him which hit him on the shoulder. The police charged him with common assault and locked him in a cell for five hours. He has been taken to court by the police and CPS at a cost of thousands of pounds to the public purse. Whatever happened to common sense?
Terror Suspect aged 7 Javaid Iqbal had been looking forward to his holiday in Florida, that is until he arrived at the security desk at Manchester Airport His parents were informed that there was a security block on Javaid’s name. They were detained there for three hours before they were eventually given their boarding passes. That was fine but on trying to return his name was again blocked at both Orlando and Philadelphia. This time they cancelled their tickets and by the time they got security clearance had missed their flight. Again common-
Mrs. Brenda Robinson (66) spent the night in a cell for clipping a young hooligan round the ear. He had threatened her with a piece of wood and called her a f****** bitch after she remonstrated with him for kicking a ball against her daughters car. A short time before a neighbour had been head-
Donna Appleyard, a 32 year old mother of two, from Knottingley West Yorkshire was plagued for two years by a crowd of up to 15 teenagers who congregated outside her home. Paint was thrown over her and neighbour's walls, plants destroyed, footballs kicked against her house and constant foul language.
She finally snapped and told them to **** off. A thirteen year old girl, who probably has the vocabulary of the proverbial Grimsby fish-
Julie Lake, 50, of Mangotsfield, Bristol spent two years trying to get police to stop gangs of louts desecrating a local war memorial. She finally snapped and cuffed one of the culprits round the ear. They took her car registration number and called the police. They, of course, arrested her and she has been bailed to appear in court but has vowed to go to prison rather than pay any fine
Mohammed Kendeh, 21, a serial sex offender (11 victims), who also has convictions for burglary, arson and drug offences cannot be deported because Sir Henry Hodge, Britains’s top immigration judge, said sending him home would breach his rights to a family life under EU Human Rights legislation.