COURTS MAKE NONSENSICAL DECISIONS : GEORGE, BAMBER et al.

I've always thought that as one gets older, the world should become more understandable. It seems I have been wrong.

 

Today, the Appeal Court has upheld a previous ruling and denied Barry George compensation for his wrongful conviction on the charge of murdering the broadcaster, Jill Dando, in 1999. Mr George was convicted on the flimsiest of evidence and subsequently spent 8 years in prison before the conviction was quashed. How any court can rule that the clear destruction of his life as a result of this wrongful verdict is not worthy of compensation defeats me.

 

Separately, the European Court of Human Rights has also been at it again. This time, they've decided that imprisoning anyone for a life sentence without the prospect of release is a breach of their human rights. Three convicted murderers had taken their cases to this ludicrous court and the ruling is that there must be a possibility of release and review of the sentences handed down. Why they came to this decision and what it actually has to do with 'human rights' I have no idea.

 

The killers concerned did not consider the human rights of their victims when they murdered them, 5 of them in the case of one of the appellants, Jeremy Bamber; Bamber actually claims that he's innocent, but that's a different matter. In killing their prey, these killers deprived them of life without any prospect of an appeal or a return to life; in days gone by, the death penalty was rightly employed as a mechanism for delivering true justice to such evil people and, in abandoning this ultimate sanction, its replacement was supposed to be a mandatory whole-life sentence. Gradually, this approach has been whittled down so that many murderers now serve little more than 10 years, while their victims corpses rot away and their families and friends mourn for decades.

 

Today's decision by the ECHR flies in the face of all logic and humanity. It places the rights of vicious and cold-hearted killers above those of their victims, families and friends. The sooner this country separates itself from the insane nonsense that emanates from this unbelievably ridiculous body, the better.