26 Years Waste Of Tax Payers Money

[retrocop]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/man-shot-council-worker-dead-live-tv-illegally-built-bungalow-died-085145156.html
I really do not recall this case. Considering the murder was filmed by the press I'm surprised this is the first I have learnt of it.
Any one else recall this murdering nutter at the time?

[Mamyalynne]

My statement was in reply to this comment.

//"We don't have capital punishment in this country, as I'm sure you know."

That is why people like this can take life with impunity. //

[Deskdiary]

I'm not a 'right-on Liberal' - far far from it - but I don't agree with the death penalty. I much prefer the idea of locking people up for the rest of their lives (which as near as makes no difference is what happened to this bloke) as I consider that punishment to be worse than death.

[andy-hughes]

YMB - // Well thats a teflon answer if ever I have seen one. //

I have no idea what a 'Teflon answer is - ?

[rowanwitch]

I am not a liberal either, but I would prefer a whole life sentence for murder. I would not want someone to be killed by the state. Surely to be able to judge we must remain above the behaviour we are judging.

[andy-hughes]

retrocop - // and the notion of "murdering" a murderer to save money is morally repugnant.

Known as judicial execution not murder. //

Of course it is - you can call an ass a horse, but it doesn't shorten its ears.



// I can't believe you know what is going through the mind of a person who is about to commit premeditated murder. If you do your talent is wasted. //

Neither can I, which is probably why I didn't suggest that I could.

If you re-read my post, I said that logic dictates the point I am making, not some clairvoyant ability which you have imbued me with, based on no evidence whatsoever.

// I am sure the photographs of daddy being gunned down in cold blood are equally repugnant to his surviving children. //

I am equally sure of that - but it's not part of the debate.

[youngmafbog]

DD & Rowan

As I have said before, if life meant life I may be able to buy into it.

However, as is shown so many times in the UK a Life sentence amounts to a few years.

[AuntLydia]

He was a totally nasty peice of work and had spend much of his life terrorising people and threatening to fill them full of bullets.

https://social.shorthand.com/TheNorthernEcho/j256PGBRb3/albert-dryden-the-full-story

They should never have let him out he should have spend his last breath in jail.

[jackthehat]

Releasing him from prison did not grant him any better quality of life but it saved the cash-strapped Prison Authorities from having to spend anything on his welfare.

[ToraToraTora]

Yes, I remember it, why is it a waste of TPM?

[AuntLydia]

Releasing him from Prison gave him his freedom. He got life and Life should mean forever, in his case anyway.

[jackthehat]

He swapped form of imprisonment for another; he was never truly free, and nor did he deserve to be.

[ToraToraTora]

I remember this at the time and the planning guy was a complete April, and I can see how the other guy blew his head off. No excuse for him but I think this could have been handled so much better. It was basically a planning dispute.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // I remember this at the time and the planning guy was a complete April, and I can see how the other guy blew his head off. //

Are you sure that's something you want to admit to quite so casually?

[AuntLydia]

Tora: That 'April' was my boss at the time at Dewentside DC and I find your comments both pathetic and disgraceful. He was Chief planning officer at the time just doing his job. The guy had no PP was never going to get it and still built his ramshackle house ( a bungalow is going a bit too far)
Your comment should be removed.

[hereIam]

I am 100% sure that TTT is being totally ironic ....

[andy-hughes]

hereIam - // I am 100% sure that TTT is being totally ironic .... //

Irony only works if it is absolutely clear to everyone that the irony is there for all to see - and it wasn't in this case.

In addition, in my view irony is not really appropriate in the context of an innocent man being murdered.

[ToraToraTora]

It perhaps came across wrong AH. You know sometimes you know things are being handled wrongly and the person doing it is enjoying it too much, just a little bit f you comprehends why what happened happened? This was such a case.

[ToraToraTora]

Auntlyd: "He was Chief planning officer at the time just doing his job. " - does the chief planning officer attend every case? No they knew each other, he was there gloat.See what I mean?

[hereIam]

So were you or were you not TTT?? Knowing you from your other posts, I assumed you would be totally on the poor murdered man's side - have I got you wrong this time ...?

[jackthehat]

However the victim was behaving, the blame lies four-square with the perpetrator. Or are you suggesting that there is a sliding-scale of culpability depending upon how irritating the victim is being at the point of their death?