Monckton Murder Case...

[Loosehead]

Just what are the probation service and social services thinking? I mean are they staffed by idiots with no common sense, surely anyone can see what is needed in this case and yet they are guilty of quite breathtaking incompetance. Is this a case of "you pay peanuts you get monkies" or is there some sort of psuedo political undercurrent here?

[brionon]

I think he she never have been let out of prison. How can anyone hope to control a free man ?

[sp1814]

Re: political undercurrent - very, very doubtful. I don't think any of the three major parties could every score points by allowing murderers out early. Not in the current climate.

[Loosehead]

When I said political undercurrent, I didn't mean the main parties, I meant the Prob officers/social workers.

[sp1814]

Hmm...really don't know on that one. I'm just glad that I work in an industry where incompetance doesn't result in someone's death.

I don't really know enough about the case to comment further.

[asciwhite]

perhaps you could ask these people...

http://www.napo2.org.uk/napolog/archives/2005/12/press_release_o.html

[NikkiB]

Without wishing to sound like a hanger and a flogger, the start of the problem is at court when an offender is sentenced. Far too many violent dangerous people are given an absolute pittance of a sentence - and even then they are allowed out after only half their piddly sentence has been served. It's insane, and if the judiciary, and ultimately the Govt, can't see the correlation between inadequate sentences and increased crime they are not fit to govern or judge. And all too often, some bleeding heart liberal of a probation officer, usually called Wilfrid and dressed in a tweed jacket, tries pathetically to emphathise with the offender rather than victims or society. One can only imagine that if scum like Mr Monkton's killer was housed in Wilfrid's leafy, affuent street, Wilfrid might be a bit less anxious to set him free.