Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Deliberate prosecution

An interesting Law In Action with Sir Ken Macdonald, former Director of Public Prosecutions.

He said that after the London bombings of July 2005 he had felt "a peculiar sense of responsibility" that he could have done something to stop them. "The guilt felt by people in the top jobs led to a danger that people will overreact, which some governments across the western world did".

He also went on to say that it was an early, deliberate decision to go after anybody who had assisted the bombers (who, since they were dead, could not be prosecuted themselves), & to prosecute if there were sufficient evidence.

I suppose it was then logical (& proper) to go after anybody who assisted the failed bombers of 21 July.

I feel somewhat reassured to hear that these were deliberate decisions rather than knee jerk reactions, but I am still uneasy about the treatment of Yeshi Girma & her sister