Stick To The Scumbags
The murder of Sally Anne Bowman in 2005 was a terrible crime and it is to be hoped that Mark Dixie, her killer, remains incarcerated for the rest of his life.
Unfortunately, the case has renewed calls for the rest of us to suffer as well:
Detective Superintendent Stuart Cundy, who led the Bowman investigation, said having the DNA of everyone in Britain on file would speed up arrests and cut down on further offending.The cost and imposition of such an authoritarian measure should be enough to render it unconscionable, but there is another reason. It wasn't the DNA evidence alone which would have tended to incriminate Dixie:
Dixie, who was sentenced this afternoon and told that he would have to serve at least 34 years in prison, had a string of previous convictions for sex offences. Detectives believe he may even have killed while living in Australia in the 1990s.And again:
His fantasising about the sex killing on an earlier occasion, when he performed a sex act over newspaper pictures of blonde Sally Anne, helped convict him.As well as Sally Anne's murderer, then, Mark Dixie is also a convicted sex offender and pervert who might well have killed before.
Dixie filmed the act and the recording was discovered among his belongings in the barn of the Horley pub [where he was arrested for another offence in 2006].
There can be no objection to keeping the details of such filthy vermin on file. Those in the British justice system who would want to catalogue the whole country, however, would be well advised to stick to persecuting the scumbags, which is what we pay them for.
As I have written before, it is laudable that parliament has resisted calls for a universal rollout of the DNA database in the past.
It should continue to do so.
3 comments:
Yup. What is far more disturbing is that Dixie was deported from Australia for stabbing and raping somebody was does not seem to have been stuck straight into jail on his return to the UK. Absolutely bizarre.
"Those in the British justice system who would want to catalogue the whole country, however, would be well advised to stick to persecuting the scumbags, which is what we pay them for."
Sadly, the way they are not elected as I understand they are in the US means that they can follow whatever agenda they wish. In fact, as you know, they come under government pressure to go easy on the scumbags lest there be no place for them in gaol.
Somewhere I have my Australian citizenship certificate. I may have to find it soon and go back to a country that has a written constitution that may well protect its people from the excesses of their rulers.
I came back because I missed England.
It's seems to me that it has gone. And I only left in 1988!
Paul
Thanks for the comments.
Paul - you'll find material about the prisons crisis and record levels of British emigration on this blog: I sympathise.
I've thought of moving to Australia a few times but I'm not quite ready to give up on England just yet ... perhaps this is stupid of me ....
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