The lottery

Laban Tall fills us in on the lottery winning rapist story. For those that don’t know the long and short of it is that a convicted rapist has won 7 million of our British quids on the lottery. The big issue on BBC radio five live the other evening was should the criminal be able to keep the cash? The news this morning on the same station was that David ‘Nailer’ Blunkett (our dear Home Secretary) was thinking about introducing new legislation to deal with the situation and, presumably, others like it. Man, that guy. Is there nothing he can’t fix?

The real story though is, of course, why was the fucker allowed out of prision in the first place? I mean, as Laban Tall shows us, at the man’s final reckoning the judge said:

Paramount in my mind is that every moment you are at liberty some woman is at risk and I believe it to be my duty to protect, so far as I am able, women from the risk you represent.

This is the last in a long line of appalling offences committed against women and the only sentence I can pass is one of imprisonment for life.

Every moment you are at liberty. I wonder what the judge meant by that? Every moment except the weekends, perhaps? We should be thankful, of course, that the hoo-ha is about something as trivial as a cash win on the lottery rather than about, well you know the story. It’s called the Offender in the Community lottery. That’s where members of the public get a shot at victim hood courtesy of the British criminal justice system. Unlike the National Lottery the Offender in the Community lottery offers the chance of multiple winners each and every day.

The best odds in Europe, some say.

Posted by John at August 12, 2004 08:31 AM | TrackBack