With the furore about the terrible treatment of the Dowler family during the recent trial of Levi Bellfield still in the headlines. I wonder why the UK still seems to be having such an problem in delivering fair justice to victims, the ‘system’ seems to be on its head at the moment and favours the criminals.
Leaving alone the Dowler case alone, here are two more recent examples of justice favouring the criminal…
Don’t Film the Yobs, you’ll be breaching ‘their’ privacy! – Yes that is what a community campaigner was told when she wanted to film yobs who were causing issues on her estate. However, it appears that the yobs have higher rights than the ordinary citizen! More back ground here.
Shopkeeper takes teenage thief home to parent and now faces prosecution for ‘false imprisonment’! – It seems that a good intention of taking a thief home to face their parents after stealing some grapes turned into a nightmare for the shopkeeper who was later arrested by the police for holding the thief against their will. Perhaps the shopkeeper should have called the police, but then the thief (a 15 year old) might not have got off so lightly.
More background here.
I am sure that there are many more cases like this, I’ll have to keep an eye out and post some more.
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