If You Need 'Support' To Stay Out Of Prison, That's a Warning Sign It's Where You Truly Belong

The flipchart in the corner of the staff meeting room, deep inside a prison in the south-east of England, tells its own story about what our overcrowded jails are having to deal with, day in day out. Under the heading “Challenges”, it lists gangs, the destruction of cells, prisoners exploiting each other and complex behaviours. Committed, hard-working staff talk about the high levels of psychosis, often combined with drug abuse. They provide examples of people actually committing crimes to go back into jail to get some respite from their chaotic, dysfunctional lives.

To tackle the current prisons crisis in England and Wales, planned changes to sentencing will see almost 2,000 people released early from Thursday and over the following month. It is the first tranche of the estimated 5,000 releases that will take place in phases over the coming year.

Hw of course has two things to focus on, both of which boil down to being soft on criminal excuses, as you'd expect for the 'Guardian':

As a first step, we need to address the staggering increase in people recalled to prison. The power that probation officers have to send someone back behind bars plays an important role in protecting the public, but with recall now accounting for one in seven of the prison population compared with one in 13 a decade ago, it is neither sustainable nor effective.Cases of people being recalled for missing probation appointments because transport was delayed or for moving out of their accommodation to get away from drug dealers and gangs, are too often punished with a return to custody.

There are rules and they expect people to follow them - sounds like they are the only State agents actually doing their job diligently to me. 

Second, we need to focus on the probation service. It is critical to fixing prisons and too often undervalued. Today it is a long way from its original social-work ethos to advise, assist and befriend those once described as clients but now always labelled offenders. The focus is much more on surveillance and compliance.

As it always should have been! 

The services need connecting. Fixing this cannot be achieved by the justice system alone. Public bodies from the NHS to local councils have a role to play in giving people the support they need to stay out of prison.

I don’t require any ‘support’ to stay out of prison, and nor do the vast majority of people, you know.

Well, What’s Stopping You?

Sentencing him on Friday,Judge Sean Morris said he had shown "not one line of remorse", adding: "I'd dearly love to lock you up. Now go away and hang your head in shame."

Given he lied his way through the trial I don’t think there’s much point in expecting shame from him, your honour…

The judge rejected Beckett's account that cyclists had obscured his view. "You tried to blame cyclists, which was a nonsense, and you tried to blame the deceased for not having lights on. He did have lights on," he said. The prosecution said the collision was "no momentary lapse of concentration".

I fail to see why he shouldn't be charged with contempt of court then. Maybe that would attract the jail time that killing a man with a car doesn’t. 

Beckett's defence barrister urged the court to suspend any prison sentence, citing Beckett's age, previous good character and clean driving record. Judge Morris said: "It is the will of Parliament that I have to suspend the sentence."

Then what’s the point of you? Might as well flip a coin… 

Well, If It's A Firing Squad, Perhaps You'll Get One With The Blindfold...

An Egyptian television presenter pleaded for mercy and screamed 'I've never smoked a cigarette in my life!' as she was handed the death sentence on drug charges, according to local media.

Sarah Khalifa and 11 others were sentenced to death by hanging...

Oh, well. 

...on charges of manufacturing, promoting and trading synthetic drugs, as well as possessing and carrying firearms and ammunition without a licence.

I suspect that in Egypt, that latter is not considered as bad as the former. \well, I gurss she's a hopelessly naive woman who fell in with a bad lot and didn't have a clue about the possible consequences? 

Khalifa, 39, who is best known in Egypt for presenting 'Mission Impossible', a programme dealing with crime and security, was convicted by a Cairo court.

Oh, well!  

She wept during the sentencing, begging for 'mercy and humanity', the outlet claimed. Khalifa is also reported to have told the court how she was suffering with a tumour.

One excuse at a time love!  

The verdict is not final at this stage, and is subject to appeal.

I suspect she stands a good chance of an appeal being successful, especially if made direct to the Grand Mufti.  

Well, They Would Say That, Wouldn't They?

The programme, titled The Great ADHD Myth?, was broadcast on Tuesday and its host, NHS psychiatrist Dr Max Pemberton, concluded it was "a social construct, not a disorder of the brain". ADHD UK filed a complaint, saying: "ADHD is not a myth. It is not a social construct."

The Royal College of Psychiatrists also warned against "invalidating the condition".

Understandably, they have a business to protect. 

Channel 4 defended the show, saying there is "considerable public debate on various aspects of ADHD" and it "is legitimate for that debate to be explored and for conventional understandings to be challenged".

Once it would have been, but in 2026 that can be a risky business, as one professor has since found out. 

Another charity, ADHD Embrace, raised concerns with Channel 4 in advance, warning the programme risked "perpetuating misinformation about ADHD as a condition and discrimination against those families whose lives have been severely impacted by the condition".

But Channel 4 was not to be cowed... 

Channel 4 said: "Whilst the film does not seek to provide answers from one family's experience, their experiences have opened up discussion around whether today's world is equipped to accommodate ADHD behaviours and the ethics of medicating these, particularly in children and particularly when the long-term effects remain unknown."

Meicating children with little thought to the long term conseqequrances seem to be the way forward these day, that door has been well and truly opened.

Diagnosis rates of ADHD and autism have soared, and waiting lists for assessments on the NHS in England are at record levels, with lists even closing in some areas due to the huge demand. Research from University College London suggests nearly a 20-fold increase in the number of UK adults diagnosed with ADHD between 2000 and 2018.

Reduce the benefits and allowances associated with it if you want to see rates fall. 

'Ms Carty is a complex person...'

Francesca Kolar, mitigating for Carty, said: 'The pre-sentence report highlights that Ms Carty is a complex person. She is grappling with several issues, with alcohol and mental health at the forefront. 'She has a real sense of shame about what happened. She does take accountability for her actions. 'It is plain that alcohol was the disinhibiting factor in this offence.'

Whar did she do? Only climbed over seats at Emirates stadium to grope a teenage girl during an Arsenal Women's match! So less a complex person, more a run of the mill sex offender.

Carty was found guilty of one count of sexual assault against the older girl but cleared of a second charge by a jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court. She was also cleared of two counts of sexual assault relating to the victim's cousin. Carty avoided jail but was given an 18-month community order.

So, multiple teenage girls in fact, even if the jury didn’t think so. Think there might have been more than alcohol circulating in her bloodstream.

Judge Leslie Cuthbert said: 'Instead of immediately admitting to your drunk and unpleasant behaviour you chose to suggest that the girls were lying, meaning that the victim and her cousin had to give evidence. 'You sought to shift the blame onto others.'

So Ms Kolar has lied to the court, shouldn’t she face consequences for that? 

She was given a restraining order which means she will be prevented from contacting the victim for three years and will have to pay £500 in prosecution costs.

£500 is a fraction of the true cost. 

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

A pity he didn't major in American Literatute, he might have come across Mark Twain's wise words.

In 2023, the then 37-year-old sociologist became the youngest ever black professor at Cambridge.In a statement posted by the Good Law Project on Wednesday, Arday said that being appointed professor had been "without question, the greatest professional privilege of my life".

One it now looks like you didn't deserve and only got for one reason.

Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, who describes himself as an associate of Arday, told BBC Newsnight on Wednesday that he found "the whole thing regrettable". "From, I think, how he's been treated and the quite obtuse spotlight on him about his CV - career - at Cambridge University," he said. "I think it's also regrettable that there may be some untruths that have come out about his CV."

On Saturday, Arday told the Times in an interview that he was accountable for those mistakes, but that "what I am not is a liar".

Sounds like something a liar woud say... 

He told the newspaper: "There has been, since I arrived at Cambridge, a very well orchestrated and co-ordinated campaign to unseat me from my position." He suggested that this was "racially motivated" and that he had become a "lightning rod" for criticism of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policy. 

"Disability card?... That'll do nicely!"

Arday said some errors in his early academic work was because of his autism, as he relied on using mimicry to make sense of information, and that similar scrutiny would find similar errors in work by other academics.

Ah, the appeal to 'everyone does it!'...

"We're talking about academia here. I didn't murder somebody. I think the cruelty that I've experienced and the positioning of me as this kind of liar and fantasist is totally unacceptable," he told the newspaper.

Most of us think the elevation of a liar and fantasist to this position purely to tick a box is what's 'unacceptable' .

How Naive Are These Magistrates?

A mum-of-five was forced to spend a night in a police cell after she was caught shoplifting in a Birmingham Iceland store, a court heard.

Yes, those are consequences of being caught stealing though not often enough these days for our diverse enrichers…

Daniella Costea felt she 'had no other option' when she hid £150 worth of items, such as medicines and food, in her skirt to steal on Monday, June 29.

That must be some skirt! 

The 34-year-old mum 'suffered a loss of liberty' as she was arrested and spent 16 hours in police custody, Birmingham Magistrates' Court heard this week.

Costea pleaded guilty to theft on Tuesday (July 21) and was issued a fine by the court - which heard "money was extremely tight" for the family.

And she’ll no doubt steal again to pay the fine! Hmm, it’s almost like the magistrates hadn’t thought of that, eh, Reader? 

The chair of the Magistrates' told her: "It turns out this wasn't your finest hour. We recognise that you spent a night in a police station which must have been quite an unpleasant experience for you." She must now pay £197 to the court - including the £80 fine.

No, chairman, it’d be an unpleasant experience for you and your fellow middle class compatriots on the bench, but for her, it’s a work-related accident.  

This Is Not Justice!

Zoe Graham, 38, broke down in court as she told a judge she was sorry after smashing her Range Rover into mum-of-three Samantha Keen on August 9, 2023. Graham said she was late to pick up her own kids from school when she overtook a line of cars, illegally crossing a double white line.

The video of the crash is horrific and the perpetrator’s description as ‘the wife of a singer’ set my teeth on edge, I knew straight away, before I googled, we wouldn’t be talking about opera, here. 

Mrs Keen was turning right, crossing the carriageway in front of Graham, who crashed into her at at least 50mph near Ringmer.

After the crash, summer plans were cancelled and the family had to move in with Mrs Keen’s mother.

It's only through modern car design for safety that she isn’t dead, along with her children! 

I have permanent physical and mental difficulties," she said. She suffers from anxiety caused by 'ugly scars on my face' and will need medication for the foreseeable future. Mrs Keen also had to give up kickboxing and experiences increased anxiety in cars.

But this isn’t a court of law, apparently, it’s a circus of competing victim statuses. You’d imagine there’s only one victim here, but no…

Crying in the dock, she said: "I’m so sorry. "My children and I went through nine years of domestic violence."My ex used to make me really late or wouldn’t let me pick them up which made them really anxious. 

"I have an autistic child. 

"When I saw the double white lines. 

"I thought there was a break in the lines. 

"I was a little bit late to pick my boys up. 

"They suffer with anxiety and I felt the need to get there.

I would have thought their ‘anxiety’ would only be heightened by being in a car with someone who drives like this.  But, Reader, it worked:

Lewes Crown Court in Hove heard Graham was originally charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving. The Crown accepted her guilty plea to the lesser charge of causing serious injury by careless driving

.Once again, the lazy bastards in the CPS dropped the ball!

His Honour Judge David Rennie told Graham: "The pre-sentence report has given me a wealth of information about you, your family and your background. 

"I’ve read references from people who know you very well and they speak very highly of you. 

"I’ve read and considered the report from the consultant psychiatrist. 

"I regard what you did on this occasion as wholly out of character. 

"I have no doubt you are deeply, deeply sorry for what you did to - as you say - another mum."

She was spared jail after admitting causing serious injury by careless driving.

Graham was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months and banned from driving for a year.

Not even banned for life! So much for keeping death off the roads!

No Longer Accepting Excuses...

The court heard Amber blamed 'immaturity' for the decision to keep driving after her diagnosis, and she has written to Ms Cheema to apologise.

What about the pedestian she nearly killed? 

The judge said Amber was 'in the midst of an epileptic fit' when her driving became erratic, and she 'may not have fully appreciated the very realistic fear of her passenger'. 

He was encouraged by Amber's barrister to spare her a spell in prison, but concluded: 'It was clearly a deliberate choice to disregard the information given to her by her doctor. 'You are fortunate you did not kill people that day, it's as simple as that', he told Amber. 

'You are lucky it wasn't far worse.'

She’s lucky, judge!?! 

Amber, who was on an accountancy graduate scheme prior to sentencing, will serve just over a year in prison before she is eligible for parole, and she is banned from driving for the next three years and four months.

It seems a pathetic sentence given the aggravating factors, but it’s almost astounding to see a prison sentence in a case like this one that it’s welcome.

Playing The Police And Justice System Like A Fiddle...

Stacy Sharples admitted to making up the allegations against ten men many of whom spent hours in police custody and months on bail. She even bragged to one of her victims that the police were 'not pressing charges. I've got away with it. Yet again.' 

But she's not boasting now, because they finally had enough.

None of the men she accused were charged. Her false allegations cost the taxpayer a 'conservative estimate' of £120,000 due to wasted police, legal and medical time, Bolton Crown Court heard.

She should be fined to pay every penny of that back. 

After Sharples was arrested, she said to police: 'You need to look into my mental health. That's all I need to say. You'll never understand, I had a s*** upbringing. 

'I'm a ticking timebomb, you flip me off and I'll flip back.'

She knows exactly wkich buttons to press. 

Sharples, of Farnworth, pleaded guilty to ten counts of perverting the course of justice. She will be sentenced on March 11.

And whay penaltys will the police face, for having gone along with her claims? 

Maybe Because 'Children' Aren't Who They Are Working For?

An internet safety campaign backed by US tech companies has been accused of censoring two teenagers they invited to speak out about the biggest issues facing children online.

Gosh, I wonder why? 

Childnet, a UK charity part-funded by companies including Snap, Roblox and Meta, edited out warnings from Lewis Swire and Saamya Ghai that social media addiction was an “imminent threat to our future” and obsessive scrolling was making people “sick”, according to a record of edits seen by the Guardian.

Did they not realise that he who pays the piper calls the tune then? 

Swire, then 17, from Edinburgh, and Ghai, then 14, from Buckinghamshire, had been asked to speak at an event to mark Safer Internet Day in 2024 in London in front of representatives from government, charities and tech companies.The tech-backed charity also edited out references to children feeling unable to stop using TikTok and Snap, social media exacerbating a “devastating epidemic” of isolation, and a passage questioning why people would want to spend years of their lives “scrolling TikTok and binge-watching Netflix”, the edits show.

Childnet denied making edits to keep tech funders happy and insisted it would not stop young people making their points.

Of course they did… 

“I was pretty surprised because at this stage I didn’t know there was a conflict of interest with where their funding was coming from,” said Swire, who was at the time a member of Childnet’s youth advisory board.

How do you get elected (if it was an elected role, of course) to a youth advisory board without having the slightest idea about how things work? 

Ghai, now 16, said: “It was quite shocking because the stuff that they deleted was bringing to light a lot of things that were happening in the industry. It felt hypocritical because they were asking us to speak up against this and then at the same time they watered down what we wanted to say so much.”

Well, one hopes you’ve learned a valuable lesson from this, at least… 

Will Gardner, the Childnet chief executive, denied making edits to keep tech funders happy. “If young people want to make a point we allow them to make a point but there are constraints – not due to who gives us money, there are constraints in the nature of the event that we’re running, and the time constraints,” he said. “We would certainly advise and edit around tone and language but we wouldn’t stop young people making a point.”

Tell me another one!  

Wales. AGAIN!

And the fanatical bloodsport dog lovers have a ready excuse - this time 'it was the fireworks that did it!'

Officers and paramedics attended a property on Crossway in Rogiet, near Caldicot, Monmouthshire, at about 18:00 GMT on Sunday. The dog was seized and removed from the address, according to Gwent Police, with officers working to establish the breed of the animal. Ch Supt John Davies said: "Officers are on scene and will be making further inquiries as the investigation progresses." No arrests have been made.

WHY NOT! Even if not a banned breed (and it did indeed turn out to be another killer bully), as is quite likely given Wales seems to have a predilection for the things, leaving a child unattended with a dog is clearly child endangerment, isn’t it?

But the Miss Marples and Hercules Poirots of the canine fancy are on the case, ready to exonerate poor Fido:

A “panicked” dog killed a baby after being spooked by fireworks in a Welsh town, it has been claimed.The dog reportedly became agitated by fireworks in a nearby field and went for the baby, Rogiet residents explained to The Sun.Caroline Knight told the newspaper: “Someone was letting fireworks off near the house and the dog was agitated by them and must have panicked and gone for the baby.Another neighbour recalled how there had been “horrendous” fireworks on Sunday evening. They added: “You could hear dogs bark as well as the bangs - they could have set a dog off.”

Fireworks are going off all over the country, thanks to bloody Diwali, yet dogs aren’t savaging people willy nilly, are they? 

A family affected by tragedy has thanked the public for donating to a fundraising appeal - and urged people to show ‘respect’ during their heartbreak.“People need to be respectful," they said. "Comments online aren’t helping the situation there is a big loss in the family and everybody is trying to process what’s happening."

A fundraising appeal? 🙄 

Caldicot Town Team CIC’s Aaron Reeks said: “People should show more respect and dignity when they absolutely don’t know the full facts," he said. "I’ve been in touch with the family, and I don’t want to intrude on them at this time.

“Speculation online concerning the breed of the dog is inappropriate and unnecessary."

Ah, those modern terms that mean ‘Stop pointing out inconvenient facts’, like the sudden prevalence of bloodsport breed dogs in society, or the fact that the authorities go all softly-softly with death by dog teeth because they are as terrified of the animal lobby as a bull breed is of a Catherine Wheel… 

Update: the owners have now been arrested.

Sometimes The Clues Are Wrong...

 Finally, we get a good look at the killer as he is convicted:

Lloyd-Hall denied murder but was convicted on a majority verdict of 11 to 1 after seven hours and 48 minutes of deliberations. He will be sentenced on November 10.

 Just a white boy wannabe Wigger...

Lloyd-Hall had no previous convictions but had previously been referred to adolescent mental health services. At the time of the stabbing he was suffering from cannabis-induced paranoia and may have had PTSD after witnessing an earlier stabbing and losing a friend to knife crime, the court was told.

Nice try, defence, but no cigar - though no doubt some bleeding-heart judge will find this provides enough cover for giving him unearned clemency.

Since the defence didn’t expect that to fly, they tried the ‘defence of a friend’ angle as well: 

One of Lloyd-Hall's friends claimed Harry had punched him, briefly knocking him unconscious, before he was stabbed. The stabbing was captured on video by a member of the public. Ms Ledward said: 'The video shows a scuffle between Harry and [the defendant's friend] in which [the defendant's friend] grabs Harry by the scruff of the neck and throws punches at him. 'Harry threw punches back, the last of which appears to have connected to [the defendant's friends] face or eye area. 'Either as a result of that punch, or being pushed back by another young man, [the defendant's friend] fell back and it's clear he ended up lying on the ground.

No doubt the jury hailed from cultures where if your friend is losing a fight, you help with fists and not a lethal weapon. 

Pick A Better Excuse...

Those lefty do-gooders who decry the 'Joint enterprise' legislation are going to have a hard time with this one:

The prosecution says while only one person stabbed Mr Shepherd, the jury should find them guilty of murder via joint enterprise.

'One person may have delivered the fatal blows but the prosecution case is the three are jointly liable as they were acting together in a joint attack,' she said.

Is there any evidence they were all in it together? Yes, it's all on camera!

'He was reaching for [the knife]. He was going to use it on Joe, Harrison, or me, or all of us,' he said.

Then why didn't you run away, instead of towards him? 

O'Keeffe told jurors the victim's dog was 'being very aggressive', that the pet was 'snarling and barking', and as such, he believed the pet would bite him.

Then why did you incapacitate the man holding the lead that held it under control? 

The trial continues.

I hope the lunches are good there. I can't think what else is keeping the jury from rendering the verdict right now! 

Perverse Jury Results...

No, not how a jury can find only one of the two Manchester Airport thugs guilty, despite clear video of the event. A different one:

A mother and father have been found guilty of being in charge of a dog that caused injury while dangerously out of control after their three-year-old son died in a savage attack on a farm.

But don’t start cheering yet, because: 

They were both cleared of gross negligence manslaughter.

How?! 

The prosecution said his parents' negligence meant the toddler was 'alone and unsupervised' when he entered a yard where two large, 'dangerous' and 'powerful' 50kg guard dogs were kept. Although the dogs - a Cane Corso called Sid and Tiny, a Boerboel type dog - belonged to farm owner Matthew Brown, the couple were looking after them at the time and should have known the risks to Daniel, jurors were told.

Indeed, they didn’t need to rely merely on common sense, either, they were specifically warned by the authorities: 

Daniel's parents, of Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, had also ignored warnings from the RSPCA that the animals were a danger, it was claimed.

Furthermore, the jury heard how Rochdale Council Children’s Services staff visited the farm just three days before the attack and expressed concerns, which included signs of 'neglect' of Daniel and that he was 'in danger' from the dogs. The pair asserted that Daniel was used to being around dogs on the farm and they didn’t regard them as dangerous or aggressive.

This was a lie. A blatant one:

The jury were told of a text message she sent to Twigg in the weeks prior to the attack when she said she was 'living in fear', which she said referred to 'a build up of events'. But she admitted wanting to move back to the family home in Blackley, Manchester, and telling a neighbour she was 'terrorised' living at the farm because dogs escaped all the time.

And it wasn’t the only one: 

Mr Elvidge also pressed her on why she’d not mentioned visiting the toilet in her accounts to police. Bedford said she’d just wanted to be with Daniel and 'wasn’t focusing', had felt 'fear' towards police and had suffered PTSD.

From what, we aren’t told. 

The couple were granted bail and will be sentenced on October 10.

But not, I feel sure, to what they deserve. 

The Likely Story To End All Likely Stories

Post office operators yet to claim compensation of at least £600,000 each relating to the Horizon IT scandal have not been chased up by officials because the government did not want to “harass” them with letters, it has emerged.

Who believes that? If you do, I've got a bridge to sell you!

In a report criticising the speed and handling of payouts after the Post Office scandal, the House of Commons public accounts committee (PAC) said the government is taking “insufficient action” identifying all the operators eligible to claim some of the £1.7bn being paid out across four compensation schemes.

When asked by the PAC why it was not following up letters that had not received a reply, the government said that it was “concerned that individuals receiving letters would feel harassed if they had a series of letters asking the same thing”.

Oh, please! Is that really the best they can come up with? 

The Post Office made a pre-tax loss of £612m last year, while its debts have ballooned to more than the value of its assets, and is to close 115 loss-making branches, putting 2,000 jobs at risk.

If it was a horse, it would be heading for the glue-factory in the knacker’s van by now. 

And Now We Get To Keep Him At Taxpayer Expense For God Knows How Many Years....

No real surprises here:

Jurors agreed it was the Brazilian’s insatiable drug habit that drove him to carry out the attack, and he alone was to blame and he was on Wednesday convicted of murder, three counts of attempted murder, possession of a sword, aggravated burglary and wounding with intent.

OK, maybe there's one: 

Indeed, so reliant is Monzo on psychoactive substances that, despite the carnage he knows can be caused, he admitted smoking synthetic cannabinoid Spice while on remand in prison.

I should be surprised by this, but I’m not - are any of our institutions fit for purpose anymore? 

Keep Telling Us It’s A Harmless Drug, Hippies...

Marcus Monzo, 37, admitted that he had been using cannabis 'extensively' which had changed his personality and caused a mental health decline.

Which is  quite the understatement:

In the grip of a cannabis-induced 'psychotic disorder', the Brazilian is said to have strangled, skinned and deboned his cat, Wizard, before attempting to eat it.

No, Reader, not in Brazil, in leafy, pleasant Hainault. This one’s a little too close to home. After killing and mutilating his own pet, he then set off on a rampage which saw him attack several people, killing a schoolboy in the preocess, including police who turned up unarmed to try to halt his rampage with tasers. Why a ARV wasn’t sent, god only knows. It might have spared us taxpayers the farce of a trial of this rabid animal.

Minutes later, Monzo is alleged to have set off with the animal's remains on a baking tray, a number of swords and a ball-bearing gun on a mission to kill, shouting 'does anyone believe in God'. Yesterday Monzo claimed he could not remember killing Daniel Anjorin, 14, as he was walking to school.

Yesterday Monzo told the Old Bailey that he had been consumed by 'paranoia and anxiety'.

No, that wa what your victims felt.

The Same Old Sob Stories To Excuse Savagery...

Mitigating for Miles, Brenda Campbell KC, said Mr Fowler was an entirely innocent victim and the defendant was 'profoundly sorry' for his actions. He had a background of abuse and trauma in his home life, had problems with his mental health from the age of 10 and reported hearing voices at the age of 12.

Which is offered as a reason why he gouged out the eye of a complete stranger to him, a pensioner, then beat that pensioner 19 times over the head with his own walking stick and stamped on his head 8 times.  

Later, his mother had raised concern that he was having 'delusions about religion' but that he had stopped smoking cannabis, Ms Campbell said. The barrister suggested there were 'missed opportunities' for medical professionals to spot the warning signs that Miles was unwell.

Ya think?!? 

Judge Judy Khan KC sentenced Miles to a hospital order with restrictions after hearing he needed ongoing treatment at Broadmoor secure psychiatric hospital. The judge said she would outline her reason for the decision later.

I think we can all guess... 

The court was told Miles was likely to spend years in hospital before he is well enough to be released back into the community.

Maybe he should be released into some other country's community instead of ours, how about that? 

Premeditated Excuses

An 87-year-old great-grandmother who died after being punched to the floor by a stranger at a train station in Birmingham had been trying to break up an argument at a Pret a Manger, MailOnline can reveal.

Dorothy Chiles suffered a broken hip and other injuries in the vicious assault at Birmingham New Street and passed away six weeks later.

The incident isn't recent, either... 

The horrifying incident actually happened on November 19 last year but only came to public attention after British Transport Police revealed earlier this week that Dorothy had died as a result of what they called an 'act of senseless violence'.

It happened after a row began when two strangers bumped into each other - and one made a racist remark, with Dorothy's only involvement as a would -be peacemaker. And one eyewitness to the attack said: 'The old lady was trying to calm her down but the woman just violently punched her. She was killed for her kindness.'

The 'Mail' has tracked down an eyewitness. 

A man who watched the entire episode unfold revealed: 'The older lady had approached the much younger white woman who was shouting and screaming at staff and customers in Pret. 'The woman was clearly very agitated and getting worse.

'She was shouting things about how she was autistic and saying that people were picking on her.

'As the older lady got closer to try and console her, the younger woman without warning spun around and knocked her backwards onto the floor.

'It was kind of a punch with a closed fist and it pushed her over.

'The older woman was left sprawled on the floor and train station staff and other commuters rushed to help her before she was treated by paramedics and taken to hospital in an ambulance.'

Another eyewitness gives an identical statement: 

'Other people started having a go at her about using racist language.

'This seemed to wind her up even more.

'She was shouting loudly and saying 'Why are you having a go at me? Why are you picking on me? I have autism'.

'As she got more and more angry and upset, that's when the older lady who was standing nearby came over I think intending to console her or calm her - but instead she was attacked for her kindness.'

It seems the brandishing of a diagnosis is now used to excuse the following actions. Because it works. 

Police say a woman in her 20s was initially arrested on suspicion of GBH but later held on suspicion of manslaughter and released on conditional bail pending further inquiries.

Who'd bet against her ever seeing the inside of a court?