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The Justice Secretary has agreed that bank robber Ronnie Biggs can be released from detention just a month after refusing it on the grounds that he was ‘wholly unrepentant’ about his involvement in the 1963 robbery of a mail train. Biggs, who cannot eat, drink, read, write or talk, will spend the rest of his days in a nursing home having already spent many months in prison hospitals.
Contrast this with the case of the loan shark who lent one family £500 and who over the next seven years bullied them into repaying a staggering £88,000. This man, who the judge described as ‘beneath contempt’, was merely given a 51-week prison sentence, suspended for two years.
On the one hand, we have a man who escaped from Wandsworth prison and spent the next thirty years so cocking a snook at the British legal system that he became a sort of Robin Hood figure, albeit a rather sad one since he returned to the UK in 2000.
On the other, a man whose violent extortion racket caused a woman to have two strokes and a brain haemorrhage along with untold misery walks free from court.
Justice?
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The Justice Secretary has agreed that bank robber Ronnie Biggs can be released from detention just a month after refusing it on the grounds that he was ‘wholly unrepentant’ about his involvement in the 1963 robbery of a mail train. Biggs, who cannot eat, drink, read, write or talk, will spend the rest of his days in a nursing home having already spent many months in prison hospitals.
Contrast this with the case of the loan shark who lent one family £500 and who over the next seven years bullied them into repaying a staggering £88,000. This man, who the judge described as ‘beneath contempt’, was merely given a 51-week prison sentence, suspended for two years.
On the one hand, we have a man who escaped from Wandsworth prison and spent the next thirty years so cocking a snook at the British legal system that he became a sort of Robin Hood figure, albeit a rather sad one since he returned to the UK in 2000.
On the other, a man whose violent extortion racket caused a woman to have two strokes and a brain haemorrhage along with untold misery walks free from court.
Justice?
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