Harry’s Place

Jack Straw has just been on Sky News saying…
“On one hand everybody must expect the right to a fair trial, on the other, there are these awful cases involving guns, gangs, drugs and knives where witnesses are terrorised. We have to correct that.”
The way to correct that, the Government is proposing, is to allow anonymous […]

In 1986, Jill Saward was raped by burglars who had broken into her home. Her father, the Vicar of Ealing, and her boyfriend were badly injured.
After nearly two decades of working in victim support, Jill Saward has entered politics. Specifically, she is running against Davis Davis.
Her particular gripe with the former politician is this:
Another “erosion […]

Is Waltham Forest London’s most rotten borough?
First we saw the unedifying spectacle of Labour’s Miranda Grell stripped of her office after being found guilty of smearing her opponent as a paedophile.
Then, before the Lib Dems could raise two fingers to Labour, one of their own councillors, Imran Abrahim, was found guilty of assaulting his teenage […]

“Billions of pounds has been spent on kit, but no thought has gone into how the police are going to use the images and how they will be used in court. It’s been an utter fiasco.”
This is the estimation of the UK’s CCTV system by a senior police officer, Detective Chief Inspector Mike Neville, who […]

In England:
Mizanur Rahman, a 24 year old web designer has been found guilty of incitement to murder.
He was filmed carrying placards with slogans that said, “Let’s annihilate those who insult Islam” and “Behead those who insult Islam.”
He also called out:

“Oh Allah, we want to see another 9/11 in Iraq, another 9/11 in Denmark, another […]

This guy is great.
Update: And already he’s got his own fan site.

The Times exposes a hidden crime wave:
They look down on council-estate dwellers as welfare-fiddling, light-fingered hoodies and chavs but it is the middle classes who are exposed today as Britain’s real habitual criminals.
More than a third of people admitted that they had paid in cash to a cleaner, plumber or other tradesman to avoid […]

So, the “Dancing Slags” trial has concluded with the conviction of five terrorists, who have been jailed for life.
The judge had this to say:

“You have betrayed this country that has given you every opportunity,” said Sir Michael Astill, QC, the judge at the Old Bailey. “All of you may never be released: it is not […]

According to a Transport for London study:

Women cyclists are far more likely to be killed by a lorry because, unlike men, they tend to obey red lights and wait at junctions in the driver’s blind spot, according to a study.
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The study states: “Women may be overrepresented in [collisions with goods vehicles] because they are less […]

In South Africa, crime is a national obsession. It touches everyone. If you’re not actually a criminal yourself, you’re a victim of a criminal, and if per (slim)chance you’re neither, it’s a certainty that you know someone who is. No dinner with friends is complete without the customary audit of whose been robbed, burgled, mugged, […]