It's Tuesday Night And I'm Back From the Pub!

I'll tell you the place was packed. It's almost as if the local *ahem* network had sent round an order for people to temporarily pour money into the place in order to claim the environment. Much the same thing they did at the pub now known as the Dominion House Pentecostalist Church. Praise the Lord(!)

Anyway being the sort to scare easy my father brought up the issue of today's ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that whole life terms are incompatible with article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights in the test case of Bamber, Moore and Vinter. Therefore I was forced to give him a quick explanation which I will now share with you;

Although it's always nice for the current UK regime to be given a timely reminder that all aspects of my case or cases will be reviewed by some of the finest legal minds on the planet this ruling actually has nothing to do with me. Instead it's something that comes up every couple of years or so between the UK and the ECHR which incidentally has more to do with the Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS) then it does with the European Union (EU). At the heart of the issue is whether imprisonment is intended to rehabilitate the offender as it is in nations such as Norway or intended to provide vengeance to the victims of the offenders as it is in the UK. The concept of a whole life term removes the possibility that the offender will ever be rehabilitated meaning that it is there purely for vengeance which obviously offends the European model. So occasionally the ECHR nudges the UK to reconsider its approach. The obvious compromise solution would be for the UK to do what they do in the US and simply sentence offenders to such ridiculously high prison terms (400+years) that while in the future they will have a chance of parole it's highly unlikely they'll live long enough to get there.

Neatly proceeding the ruling by the ECHR the news emerged that Mark Bridger who is serving a whole life term for the abduction and murder of April Jones has been slashed across the face in a perfectly reasonable prison attack. I'm currently trying to find a way to describe that without using the acronym; Lol.

19:30 on 9/7/13.