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Is British justice failing the victims of crime?

TODAY The Daily Express reported the shocking story of the former soldier arrested on suspicion of kidnap after making a citizen's arrest on a yob terrorising his home.

HAS DECEIT, LIES, CORRUPTION AND ABUSE OF POSITION BECOME A BRITISH THING?

14.07.08, 9:27am

How can you get thugs and yobs to stop their anger and violence when we see such abuse of position and corruption at the very top of our society and how those at the top are protected when they commit offences?

We must clean up from the TOP down and not the other way around.

• Posted by: Penny • Report Comment

HOW CAN THERE BE JUSTICE WHEN THE LAW PROTECTS THOSE WHO HAVE DONE FOUL DEEDS?

14.07.08, 9:23am

How can there be Justice when the Police and Judiciary are bent on protecting those who have commited crimes and are even told to cover-up all sorts of foul deeds if those at the top are involved in any way?

How can Respect or trust in the Police and Judiciary exist in such a corrupt climate where abuse of position is rampant and the MP's themsleves are ripping us off, whilst the Police is ordered to cover things up and statistics are fiddled so that the public can be fooled into thinking things are not as bad as they really are?

Has DECEIT become a BRIISH thing?

• Posted by: Penny • Report Comment

NO JUSTICE FOR THE VICTIMS OF CRIME.

11.07.08, 8:56pm

Of course there hasn't been for years now. The victims have no rights and the criminals all the rights. If you cannot lock up these thugs, then maybe a law should be made that anyone, whether male or female who commits a crime, instead of giving them money and community servce so they can commit crimes again, lets nip it in the bud. Enlist them in the military service and boot camp. They have no responsibilty and take what is not theirs, now it is pay back time. Lets get them off the streets after the first crime and I am sure when they have finished their service to their country, thay might think twice of committing a crime. But that is my opinion. But then again I am sure the Human Rights fanatics will have something to say about that as well.

• Posted by: happyemigrant • Report Comment

YES IT IS A MESS ISNT IT!

08.07.08, 11:54pm

Yes its failing miserably. I have been in a position where I needed help and never got it....Crime pays is the message we all got.

• Posted by: Tazzie • Report Comment

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IS BRITISH JUSTICE FAILING THE VICTIMS OF CRIME ?

06.07.08, 11:04am

Its Tony BLiars Insidious "Criminals (Human) Rights Act" t that is ultimately responsible.

The only real winners under this act are ther Criminals AND OF COURSE THE LEGAL PROFESSION ( BLIARS KIN AND BARRISTER CRONIES) who make £millions out of the Taxpayer for fighting cases using any pretext that they can under the Act.

The rest of us ? Forget it we dont seem to have any rights whatsoever !

• Posted by: EmperorMing • Report Comment

WHAT JUSTICE?

03.07.08, 2:03pm

There is no Justice in Brition.

• Posted by: jojam • Report Comment

OF COURSE

01.07.08, 6:29pm

if your a decent hard working law abiding citizen you get no where in this country,
thugs rule and that's that, you cannot protect yourself or your property any more,
this government will be the ruin of this country with its softly softly policies,
and they say they are fighting crime yeah that's a laugh,
what by ignoring the thugs, terrorists, yobs, murderers, burglars and going after speeding motorists,
you know why don't you??????
because the criminals don't bring in the money, motorists do.

• Posted by: jessica • Report Comment

BRITISH JUSTICE

29.06.08, 9:15pm

What an absolute farce the laws of this country are. It seems the worse you are the better you get on and the more help you get from the Police, Judicial system, etc. To live a decent law-abiding life does not get you anywhere, mug a granny, kill a baby kick someones head in and you are on the right track, live decently and you are a laughing stock.

The Gordon Brown regime certainly needs kicking out, they have no control over anything.
Isn't there anyone out there who can get this once great country back on an even keel.

Clamp down on all criminals whatever their age, stop illegal immigrants, praise people who 'have a go' instead of punishing them and bring back more discipline in homes and schools.

• Posted by: lorna69 • Report Comment

REGARDLESS......

29.06.08, 7:21pm

Of what happens ... Brown and Labour will pay the price for this shambles.....

The first party to state that it is revising or even better rescinding the "human rights" act, will get get my and possibly millions of other votes ...

WE ARE ALL HEARTILY SICK OF IT !!!!!!

• Posted by: Eltorro • Report Comment

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IS BRITISH JUSTICE FAILING THE VICTIMS OF CRIME?

28.06.08, 9:26pm

British Justice is an absolute farce.

Tony BLiars insidious Human (or Criminals) Rights Act along with New Labours fostering of the PC Brigade has mad Britain the laughing stock of Europe.

The Criminals Rights supercede everyone elses.

• Posted by: EmperorMing • Report Comment

YES IT IS...

28.06.08, 10:10am

and if this pathitic Government doesn't do something about it soon, the public will take the law into their own hands , take to the streets and there will be anarchy. We have had ENOUGH Mr Brown

• Posted by: Disgruntled • Report Comment

BRITISH JUSTICE

28.06.08, 9:58am

WHY have the term Citizens Arrest if you can't follow it through.There is no British Justice anymore in this country. Everyone else seems to be running our country, there seems to be one law for the criminals who are getting away with murder and another law for the honest citizens who work hard and get nothing in return.When a person is sentenced they should serve the maximum prison sentence not let out early for good behaviour. They are in prison for a reason.

• Posted by: tapdance • Report Comment

BLUENOTE

28.06.08, 8:55am

Seems that I misread you, but with your latest outpouring one does wonder why you still remain in this country

• Posted by: Maggie • Report Comment

VICTIMS, VIDEO TAPES AND SCUMBAGS.

26.06.08, 9:58pm

I've just got to have one more comment, probably spurred on by "maggie". The corruption of morals and the values that simple character brings to a persons judgement, have been well and truly trounced in the U.K.. The police are a self-contained enemy of all of us, interested only in the capture, the glory that brings promotion and the video tape. Some prison officers are now deep into crime within the prison environment, bringing in drugs to order, weapons or even money. This has always been the way in every country, bent coppers, bent "screws", bent lawyers, bent judges. From top to bottom of our and other societies. Bent bin men and bent royals. If we are led by bent polititions as well, then corruption becomes rampant, and it would appear that anyone "straight is either a mug or simple. Our future as a nation depends now on how far it has all gone. Can we ever again be that powerful and swinging nation we once were, the envy of so many countries , or are we now so wrapped up in cheap values and social crap we're done for?

• Posted by: bluenote • Report Comment

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MINISTRY OF TRUTH 1984 ! " MINISTRY OF INJUSTICE 2008 ?

26.06.08, 9:02pm

Coincidence ...? I don't think so,

Mr Jack Straw , Master of deception .

1984 , Was a work of fiction..

Not an instruction manual .

"Ministry of Justice" rubbing salt into open wounds or what .

The UK would benefit more if they were to replace the Ministry of Injustice with the "Ministry of silly walks" Monty Python sure had wonderfull foresight.

The "Ministry of Injustice" run by fools , for fools .

Can anyone , please , please , enlighten me, ( and if possible) i stand corrected , has Mr Jack Straw, actualy ever acheived anything of any value to anyone !! apart from himself ??

I notice he has had either contact lenses fitted , or Laser correction, but he is obviously , still as blind as a Bat .

• Posted by: BratislavaUK • Report Comment

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