BROKEN BRITAIN

Do you really need any more evidence that Britain is shattered into a million pieces, when you read about the brutal attack in Doncaster on two little boys that was perpetrated by two little boys? Here is a situation where two young children (for lets not forget, that’s what they are) can carry out the most horrific acts of violence and sexual depravity, on two other children of the same age. Society throws up its arms in despair and asks how it can happen?

And yet, these children were known to the authorities beforehand. It was known that they lived in a ‘toxic’ family life, being allowed to watch horror movies and pornographic films with their father. He was known to beat the children and their mother on a regular basis. In God’s name, why wasn’t something done to remove those boys from that environment? Was it because the boys ‘Human Rights’ would have been breached or maybe the need to maintain the family unit was paramount. How many times must these lessons be learned?

Across the other side of the country on Merseyside a 10 year old girl is brutally raped by a 17 year old thug. The attacker is arrested by the Police and charged. Hurrah! I hear you cry – but then he is released by a judge on condition he didn’t live on Merseyside. So he moved Blackburn – where he rapes a 9 year old girl. For God’s sake, not again. Surely, if there is sufficient evidence to arrest and charge somebody for a vile crime such as this, particularly on a 10 year old child, there is sufficient reason to incarcerate that individual until a trial is held? I know it’s been said before, but I really do wonder how that judge sleeps at night. I know that I would be haunted by the visions of that second young child suffering, would haunt me every time I closed my eyes. I just hope for the sake of that judge’s soul, that he/she does have nightmares. It may prevent another child suffering the same fate.

In Essex, a young 16 year old lad is celebrating his end of term results. He gets into a silly argument with three other lads. A fight – a chase and young Ben Kinsella lies bleeding to death on the ground, having been stabbed. 20 year old Jade Braithwaite is one of those three killers. He is caught and locked up in prison. This is a prison where he is allowed access to a computer and the Internet where he uses Facebook to taunt and intimidate his victim’s family and to raise a campaign for his own release!

Now I am not one of those people that believe that prisoners should wear uniforms with arrows on them and spend their time breaking rocks but computers in cells? Connected to the Internet? I really do wonder at times, is it me or are the lunatics really in control? It is only when I read comments from people such as those who read these pages. that I am reassured that it may not be me.