International Law

Radio 5 Live

By John Hirst

I will be on the Stephen Nolan show on Radio 5 Live at 10 o clock talking about the two recent cases of murder of the model and the prostitutes and whether justice/revenge is enough to satisfy the victims families or are they entitled to more.

UPDATE: There is a listen again facility for 7 days on the BBC website if anybody is interested in a audio firework display. Basically, the mother of Sally Ann Bowman spoke to the News of the Screws (and its sales would have gone up as a result) and stated how she was consumed with hate and she fed off it to keep her going. In contrast, Gee Walker has publicly stated that she forgives the killers of her son and stated that she will not allow herself to be consumed by hate as it does not serve any purpose.

There was some woman speaking who runs a so-called victim support group. However, I don't think victims get support from someone like her as she is still filled with so much hate herself and they feed off each others hate like parasites sucking blood. Some chap came on who has moved on and spoke about restorative justice which I think is a better model of providing victim support.

Then we had some narrow minded windbag of a taxi driver, and a narrow minded lorry driver neither of them had anything positive to add to the discussion and they thought it was alright to throw insults my way and libel me on air.

It was certainly lively, and there were some good points made. But, I preferred the World Service interview because the level of debate is raised when insults are not flying around distracting from the main topic.

I am tickled that there will be some taxi and lorry drivers out there tonight getting hot under the collar. That's the problem with rednecks...

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on February 24, 2008 (boomark / email).