Bring back ultimate deterrent

Two terrible murders underline yet again the weakness at the heart of our legal system.

At Newcastle Crown Court, a jury returns guilty verdicts on the heartless gang who killed Pc Sharon Beshenivsky.

This was a killing committed by men who went out armed with the intention of slaughtering anyone who got in their way.

Two of the accused were “asylum seekers” from Somalia who, far from seeking any sort of asylum, saw Britain as a place to commit crime after crime. Despite their criminal records they were allowed to remain.

Pc Beshenivsky is dead and her children orphaned because the UK do-gooder brigade put the human rights of these villains above public safety.

Meanwhile in Oxford, a vicious murderer is jailed for the killing of Dr Barbara Johnson, the Bloxwich-born world expert in the care of newborn babies.

This “extraordinary and wonderful” woman was bound, stabbed 49 times and strangled by a sadistic attacker.

Today, this clutch of worthless killers are beginning jail sentences. They have shown no remorse. They will be kept in comfort, at the taxpayers’ expense, for years to come.

Does anyone seriously believe such treatment in any way reflects society’s horror and fury at such wicked crimes?

Of course not. We have been let down by a hopelessly soft criminal-justice system. There is no effective deterrent to murder, no adequate punishment.

Until the 1960s such cases ended with a judge putting on the silk cap and passing the death sentence. It was an awesome, shocking moment, marking the terrible seriousness of the crime and of the consequences that must follow.

Since capital punishment was abolished, generations of killers have sneered at the law. The lives of murderers are protected. The lives of good, innocent people seem to count for nothing.

Is there a single politician in Whitehall with the moral courage to point out that the current system is madness, and to demand the return of the ultimate deterrent?

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Laughable justice system is unveiled

ONE of Pc Beshenivsky’s killers may have fled Britain disguised as a woman in a Muslim gown and veil.

How can this be? Surely port and airport staff check all faces against passport photographs?

Apparently not. In the name of human rights, it emerges that those wearing veils are simply waved through. So Britain’s most wanted criminal may have cheated justice simply by impersonating his sister.

Not so long ago, British justice was a shining example to the world. Today, we are a laughing stock.