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Originally Posted by Maggy J
So we can find £1.5 million to have a special old lags hospital but we can't build any more prisons..
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If you could build a prison for £1.5 million we'd have hundreds of them
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Arthur has also missed the other main points..that this lowlife has not once expressed any regret for his crimes or his absconding but above all for the injuries inflicted on Mr Mills.What he has done is jeer at the senior policeman who tried hard to recapture him,thumbed his nose at a country where he has made no positive contributions of tax or NI and hidden behind his son and mistress in Brazil.
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Actually he did express regret in his autobiography and he also ran a carpentry business prior to the robbery, so may well of paid tax and NI
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Mr Straw’s decision was also criticised by a probation leader, the former Prisons Minister Ann Widdecombe, and prison reformers. Harry Fletcher, assistant general secretary of the probation officers’ union, said: “It’s difficult to see how he poses a threat to anyone apart from politicians.”
Ms Widdecombe said: “The prisons are bursting at the seams. The courts are being urged to let burglars go free, but one fairly doddery and very frail old man is being kept in prison. If you have got a prison place, for goodness sake use it to lock up someone who is genuinely a risk to the public.”
Mr Straw said that he was worried about Biggs’s potential to reoffend and his failure to take any courses while in prison to rehabilitate himself. “Whilst the medical evidence indicates that your ability to commit further acts of violence has reduced to a very low level, I am concerned that you might incite and be involved in such acts of violence, through association with criminal peers,” he wrote.
Take any courses? The man cant write or talk, how is he supposed to take courses and as for being involved with through association, well the same applies he cant be a conspirator if he can't communicate with them.
Mr Straw said that he was also worried by his “lack of repentance”
See autobiography reference above