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?

[jackthehat]

Yes.
Why a waste of tax payers money?

[youngmafbog]

Yup, I remember - there was quite a fuss about it.

He should have done the Saddam shuffle. Totally cold blooded.

[Ama16]

Cant access the link, but if this is about Albert Drydon, yes I remember it, happened a few miles from where I live.

[retrocop]

If this murderer had been introduced to a short rope and long drop who could doubt they topped the wrong man? Poor man his quality of life suffered.What about the victim and his family.?
Should of put him out of his misery 26 years ago.

[Mamyalynne]

I do recall it, it was horrific.

[jackthehat]

Ah, I should have realised.

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

[Ken4155]

Yes, i recall seeing this on the news at the time it happened. Good riddance and it's just a pity they released him before his death. He should have died in prison.

[retrocop]

Ama16
Yes. The link was about Harry Dryden who gunned down Harry Collinson a principal planning officer regarding the illegal building of a bungalow.

[retrocop]

"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. I suppose we will get the cobblers now about it costs more to execute a man than it does to house and feed an obviously guilty man for 26years. :-(

[Rockrose]

// I suppose we will get the cobblers now about it costs more to execute a man //
Nope you just have to get used to the fact that for 53 years the UK has not had the death penalty.

[jackthehat]

It's the best that we have.
He also suffered periods of great ill-health which he had to bear (quite rightly) within the confines of prison and would have received precious little of the 'care' (emotional rather than medical) he would have received outside.

[Ama16]

Thanks retrocop, Ive just seen it on the Chronicle website.

[Mamyalynne]

I rather doubt that on that day Dryden gave any thought to what punishment may be meted out to him.

[Old_Geezer]

Not another murder as punishment thread ?
Saving a small part of the budget is not worth losing one's moral code for.

[youngmafbog]

"I rather doubt that on that day Dryden gave any thought to what punishment may be meted out to him"

And what has that got to do with it.

He went there armed - you can even see the holster on his belt. He murdered a poor innocent man in cold blood. Can you imagine the horror of it to his wife and familly? You go to work on a council job to enforce building planning and end up dead, shot in cold blood.

Ther eare no two ways about it, he should have swung. We have right-on liberals to thank for the fact he didnt.

[andy-hughes]

retrocopy - // "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. I suppose we will get the cobblers now about it costs more to execute a man than it does to house and feed an obviously guilty man for 26years. :-( //

I have said many many times on this site, that logic dictates that no-one kills another person with the notion of potential punishment at the forefront of their mind at the time.

If they did consider the consequences, then they would not commit the crime.

But simple human nature intervenes - in the case of a murder, which people excluding psychopaths tend to do just once, it is usually a crime of instant reaction, and if it is planned, then the notion of being caught is not factored in at all.

Yes, as a society, we elect to confine our murderers in prison, and yes it does cost the tax payer money, but personally, I don't weight the value of a life in economic terms, and the notion of murdering a murderer to save money is morally repugnant.

[youngmafbog]

Well in that case OG and AH I am mortally repugnant.

And proud of it.

[andy-hughes]

YMB - I didn't say you were morally repugnant, I said that the notion of murdering people to save money is morally repugnant.

[youngmafbog]

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

[retrocop]

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

Known as judicial execution not murder.
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.
I am sure the photographs of daddy being gunned down in cold blood are equally repugnant to his surviving children.