AFTER 19 YEARS, THREE TRIALS, £50 million, and a change to the law on double jeopardy; Gary Dobson and David Norris have been found guilty of Stephen Lawrence’s murder; although there is no evidence to suggest that either of them wielded the murder weapon on that fateful day.
For those in pursuit of these nasty brutes, the motto seems to have been ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again’, until you get the ‘right’ verdict – even if it meant getting rid of a centuries old pillar of English law.
It was the Macpherson Report into the Lawrence affair that suggested the double jeopardy law’s abrogation; and it was the then home secretary David Blunkett who implemented the report in the Criminal Justice Act of 2003. The double jeopardy provision of the Act came into law in April 2005.
But this was not to be all. Not satisfied with kicking over a corner stone in English law, the authorities set about bugging the homes, cars, pubs and a snooker hall owned and used by the accused. They even went as far as buying the house next door to a suspect, in order to befriend him. All of this for a single murder. If , for instance, there had been a role reversal, and Steven Lawrence had been white and his assailants black; would the politicians have ordered Macpherson to conduct an inquiry? If they had done, and the following report recommended the abrogation of double jeopardy. Would any home secretary have followed through; and if they did, what would Liberty and all the members of the human rights lobby have done.
No, one gets the feeling of the liberal auto-da-fé at work…despite the contribution made by the Daily Mail. This repellent gang and what now happens to them, is secondary to how they were brought to a guilty verdict. For the methods and practices far outweigh in importance whatever term in prison they serve. I have no feeling toward them other than contempt. I care not whether they face a life in solitary confinement or the hangman’s noose.
What I do object to is the way in which they were treated over the years by the media in such a way that made a fare trial impossible. Two of them were, nevertheless, brought to trial and found guilty…with the promise by the police that their convictions will not see an end to the case of Stephen Lawrence’s murder. Now we can expect a further £50 million to be spent on dubious methods of bringing their associates to a guilty verdict over the coming months and years.
The rule of law, we are told, is paramount… without it, anarchy would rule. The law long ago established that once a trial has been set in motion, the verdict should be final. There should be no retrial by the state in the event of a not guilty verdict. If in bringing a suspect to trial the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), fails to convince a jury with their evidence, then the defendant must be set free to continue on with his or her life.
English law should not be like the European Union, whereby if the people’s choice in a referendum does not meet the requirements of the union, they have to continue to vote until they get it ‘right’. This appears to have now become the norm after the dispatching of the double jeopardy law.
FOR ONCE LIBERTY and other human rights bodies would be on firm ground if they protested the treatment of Dobson and Norris. But all we have is silence. The auto-da-fé, it appears, is rock solid throughout the liberal establishment.
The liberals use hypocrisy as a weapon to attack their political enemies. As saintly-cut as they perceive themselves to be; they however, cannot bear the thought of Stephen Lawrence’s killers going free, even if they know how shaky their convictions are. They prefer the hypocrisy of silence to defending Dodson and Norris against injustice. Only, it seems, are the politically correct deserving of their support.
What will come next is the conviction of the rest of this coven of hate: and no doubt, in a few months time all the liberal media (joined by the Daily Mail, Telegraph, etc) will be once more celebrating British justice when Dodson and Norris’ associates will be brought to trial and guaranteed a conviction .
But long after Stephen Lawrence’s murderer’s have been convicted; English law will remain changed, and no citizen will be allowed to feel him or herself liberated back into freedom by a court of law’s verdict of…not guilty!
We have imposed a frightening possibility on our people. The law has now been changed so that the prosecution can endlessly seek a prosecution. Although Macpherson emphasizes new evidence, in the Dodson and Norris case, it was at best tenuous. I remember the judge in the trial telling the jury of a possible manslaughter verdict in this case, suggesting the unsubstantiated nature of the prosecution demand of a murder verdict.
I think what has occurred is the nearest thing to a show trial that a democratic nation dare confront its people with. The liberal establishment targeted, and went after a racially motivated gang of white criminals. They exposed their wretched criminal history to the public; they produced videos of knife wielding racists confirming their prejudices. But when the police set out to trap the accused by secretly planting bugs in their homes and pubs; nothing it appears was ever recorded that could be presented at trial to suggest they were racists – let alone Stephen Lawrence’s killers.
THIS WHOLE PROCEEDURE smacks of a sinister form of political correctness. No other murder in the country would have been given the resources as those given to finding Stephen Lawrence’s killers. No other murder would have caused such a damaging change to English law, as Stephen’s murder.
The politicians, the police, as well as every other profession associated with the criminal justice system, has poured resources into the bringing to trial of Stephen Lawrence’s killers.
How many other murders have been allowed the same generosity from the public purse as has been given to Stephen? Murders, sadly, are part of the modern everyday experience in the UK as they are in all corners of the world.
This one crime has weighed heavily on police resources to such an extent that, because of its racial nature, has had more resourses committed to it than any comparable murder whose victim is white.
It has been 19 years remember. During which time the full force of the treasury and the acquiescence of our law makers, have each made their impact on the Stephen Lawrence case; all to the detriment of justice.
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