Great Britain: Stab maniac out shopping (Psychotic lifer allowed to roam free, 4hrs/day)

The Sun (U.K.) ^ | August 18, 2006 | JOHN COLES

[Stoat]

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Crime spree

DOWNING Street fears its reputation on law and order could be damaged by John Reid’s plan to give old lags a 10-day holiday with £100 spending money.

WHAT reputation?

This government has presided over soaring violence, soft sentences, slack prisons and a scandalous increase in organised crime.

Now we learn knife maniac David Morgan, serving TEN life sentences for stabbing 17 women, is being let out of prison unsupervised for drink and shopping sprees.

Officials must have thought he wouldn’t be missed among the thugs, rapists and murderers already roaming our streets.

[Stoat]

Please say a prayer for our dear British Friends....they need to be protected from their own Government, it seems

[Dosa26]

Now we learn knife maniac David Morgan, serving TEN life sentences for stabbing 17 women, is being let out of prison unsupervised for drink and shopping sprees.

Please don't alarm or inconvenience the inmates of the asylum as they pass amongst the citizenry (perhaps drunk). This is just sick.

[GeronL]

Theodore Dalrymple was right on the money.

[Crazieman]

Inmates are running it. WE belong in the asylum for letting them loose.

[Stoat]

Somewhere, somehow, I had gotten the impression that the primary purpose of Government is to protect the public that it serves.

I guess I am completely wrong.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Are British tabloids the same as American ones, in that they are made up? (The Sun is a British tabloid).

[Stoat]

I haven't encountered a story from the Sun that is made up....they have the tabloid style and focus most of their attentions on idiotic and irrelevant celebrity gossip, but the occasional hard news items that they have reported on have appeared to be solid.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

For the data on British tabloids, much appreciated.

[Stoat]

And Matt Drudge frequently links to the Sun because they are oftnetimes first out with major breaking news items.

[sushiman]

U.K. went soft in the outhouse decades ago ...

[bulldog905]

Did Michael Dukakis go over to the UK after he was Governor of Massachusetts?

Looks like this program will turn out like Willie Horton.

[fishbabe]

You have to remember this is the country who kept Tony Martin in prison LONGER because he was a menace to burglars....He was the farm guy who shot a burglar in HIS HOME,after he had been robbed 6 times before...

[LeoWindhorse]

when mankind turned it's back on ridding itself of humanities miscreants via public hanging it made a big mistake.
All the bleeding hearts that have made that no longer possible have merely set up innocent and defenseless people for brutal deaths , or allows those thus killed to go unavenged.

[mkmensinger]

I'll bet he especially enjoys shopping at the cutlery stores.

[agere_contra]

I am British, and I certainly used to regard the SUN as no better than a comic.

I am getting more and more impressed by them simply because they appear to hire actual journalists.

[Calvin Locke]

Dukakis was my first thought too.

[DustyMoment]

Wowsers! If I ever go off my rocker and start committing crimes like this, I hope I remember to do it in the UK. Their version of "hard time" is 4 hours a day sucking down beer and shopping. I'll take it!!

[thoughtomator]

The UK's justice system is so messed up that there is no need to fabricate.

[Bazooka]

Forget public hangings. Those that did their best to abolish the death penalty probably did so to save their own necks.
In this case it's a pity that this woman stabber is not targetted by, let's say, "a random knife attack" himself.
Hey, it's hard, but sometimes you have to break the law to get justice. Getting time for shopping and drinking is a slap in the face of all victims and their families. The best thing the Brits could do is switch over to a system where magistrates (judges) are ELECTED. At least they can have a say in who is going to keep their society safe.