The right to lock up thugs
OUR human rights regime is widely regarded as a criminals’ charter and the latest victory by a bunch of scumbags in the European Court in Strasbourg is hardly going to challenge that view.
It should be no business of a foreign tribunal presided over by second rate judges to rule on the legality of so-called indeterminate sentences in Britain.
There is a very easy way for anyone to avoid being locked up without a guaranteed release date or access to rehabilitation courses and that is to desist from dangerous criminality.
Every thug with an indeterminate sentence is in that sense a volunteer.
Only an alarmingly enfeebled society would fail to ensure it has the right to lock them up and throw away the key.