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How can secretary of Justice Jack Straw justify the pardon of Michael Shields?

Is Jack Straw a complete hypocrite ??? Ronnie Biggs/ Michael Shields? Why intervene only in certain cases ?

  • So he has overturned the parole board´s decision to free Ronnie Biggs because "he has never shown any remorse". http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196817/BREAKING-NEWS-Shock-Train-Robber-Ronnie-Biggs-refused-parole-wholly-unrepentant.html Fair enough you might think, but what about the thousands of violent nutters who are let out of jail after laughable sentences on parole? Is showing remorse going to be a criteria for freeing ALL of them or just the ones that make the headlines and influence public opinion favourably towards himself?? I´m no fan of Ronnie Biggs, but this decision by the "Justice" Minister looks to be based in courting popularity rather than legality or looking for TRUE justice. And while I´m on the subject of Mr. Straw ...why does he refuse to get involved in Michael Shields ´ case ? After denying he had authority to intervene, a high court ruling made it clear he DOES have jurisdiction to grant a pardon ....but chooses not to, despite there being overwhelming evidence that this case was a complete miscarriage of justice?? http://www.michaelshields.uwclub.net/

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    Straw's not supposed to be able to overrule the parole board like this, my boss just told me. My bosses wife is a psychiatrist on a parole board, believe it or not they refuse parole for many people, their criteria is risk to the public.

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Jack Straw is one of 430 MP's who were caught fiddling their expenses and stealing off the taxpayers.He was forced to repay the money and issue an apology.. so in plain language he' a thief !!! Now he's condemned Ronnie Biggs, a pathetic old man of 79 , to rot in jail for a crime commited 46 years ago while the MP 's caught stealing will not serve a single day in jail. Justice or plain vindictiveness ?????

garyindiana

in my opinion Jack Straw is a complete hypocrite after all Ronnie Biggs is hardly a threat to anyone now some how i don't think he will be committing anymore crimes

Manxbiker

The problem, I suspect, is that pardoning someone convicted by a foreign court after that conviction has been upheld at appeal twice is a diplomatic minefield. It wouldn't just involve Bulgaria, it would bring in every UK citizen who's tried abroad. Would countries be willing to let UK citizens serve their sentences in Britain if Straw goes around pardoning them?

Pheemz

You got it absolutely right! - self aggrandisement! Straw, a man of straw. Mind you, i wouldn't let Biggs out either - he only has to say i'm sorry, that's all, show a bit of remorse, after all he's not being asked to repay the money he stole nor will he care about the millions of taxpayers pounds spent on getting him into and keeping scum like him in jail.

Helen S

Ronnie Biggs is one of Britain's political prisoners. Uniquely (I think) in the western world our home secretary gets to decide when someone can be released from prison. This power came about when we abolished capital punishment. If we aren't going to bring back the death penalty then I'd rather that our judges had the power to give people sentences of 150 years so that life sentences did mean life sentences.

keypointist

no just a moron. to be slightly fair to him there have been a number of high profile incidents of late, and some pr expert has probably advised him that a tough stand will look good in the media,so much for case by case eh.

From the Horse's Mouth

It's Zionists like Straw and NWO puppets like his partner in crime against humanity such as B'Liar who should be pleading for and refused any pardon.

lancher

He is a politician after all. They all are hippos, submerged in smugness and deceit.

Roberta E. Lee

You cannot compare these two cases.

AuldGitz BNP-NOT IN MY NAME!

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