Barry George, the man acquitted at a retrial of killing the BBC television presenter Jill Dando, is making an unprecedented legal challenge to stop the authorities keeping a watch on his movements.
Under the ECHR again, which ministers must be coming o see as a bit of a double-edged sword…
George, 48, begins a legal case in the high court against the Metropolitan police, claiming his human rights are being breached because he is the subject of a multi-agency public protection arrangement (Mappa). The arrangements, which involve the police, probation service, prison service and local authorities, are designed to protect the public from sexual and violent offenders who are considered to still pose a risk after serving their sentences.
And we’ve all seen
how well MAPPA does that, haven’t we..?
"...designed to protect the public from sexual and violent offenders..."
ReplyDeleteOr, in this case, from completely innocent people who had the misfortune to be the victim of a miscarriage of justice in the past.
They're just bastards, aren't they?