A Tip, Ken Clarke, Because It's Christmas And I'm Feeling Generous...

...do remember, if approached by the meejah for a quote on this incident (and if he really does turn out to be a parolee who breached his conditions you WILL be), to think at least once before you open your big fat trap:

The man, who was being held by police last night, had been convicted of causing death by dangerous driving and was supposed to return to prison after apparently breaching parole conditions.

Not that I'd be crying in my mulled wine if you did finally give iDave the excuse he needs to give you the push, mind...

I can well understand how this has invigorated the police in their calls to be routinely armed, or for changes in policy such as the routine handcuffing of all stop and searches, but it's to the justice system that we need to look - why was this man given parole in the first place? Why, when a breach of his parole conditions came to light, was he not immediately arrested, assuming his whereabouts were known?

But then, judges, solicitors and probation officers don't get stabbed almost to death on the streets, do they?