JUDGEMENT IMPAIRED
Law, Disorder & Injustice to Victims in 21st Century Britain
by Michael Hughes
This website is hosted by a former detective sergeant in the Metropolitan Police who worked inside the British criminal justice system for in excess of 25 yrs - including 6 years in one of Her Majesty’s Young Offenders Institutions. This has given him a wealth of insider knowledge as to the workings of the CJ System - and the necessary authority and ‘streetcred’ to become the author of a True Crime & Political hard backed book entitled,
JUDGEMENT IMPAIRED
Law, Disorder & Injustice to Victims in 21st Century Britain
(This book has received excellent book reviews from a retired Crown Court Judge, a former Senior Probation Officer, the Legal Editor of Jane’s Police Review - part of Jane’s Information Group - a widely read and very long established weekly Police publication - and others - See BOOK REVIEWS)
There are 808 pages in this book, spread over 24 chapters.
'Taster' short extracts from some Indictment Counts or Chapters are available on the site.
Judicialsentencinggaffes.com deals with the following very important subjects:
• Criticism of a total of 62 'named and shamed' members of the British Judiciary (with photographs where available) - from the former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf downwards - for handing down liberal, inappropriate, too-lenient, ineffective and non-deterrent sentences - which do not fit the seriousness of the crime and - worst of all, appear to support the perpetrator of the crime rather than the actual victims - or their surviving relatives in homicide cases.
• Criticism of certain Benches of Magistrates Courts around the UK for the same reasons as shown above - in some cases, Magistrates Courts are criticised for perceived flawed judgements in more than one fully reported case
• Calls for a Royal Commission to be appointed by the Government on justice and protection of the public.(a Royal Commission is ‘a group of people appointed by the Government to investigate a matter of important public concern and to make recommendations on any actions to be taken’ - Definition: Houses of Parliament own website)
Visitors to this website are invited to add their signatures to the following electronic petition on the UK Prime Minister's website: -
http;//petitions.pm.gov.uk/RoyalCommission/
The Petition reads as follows: -
" We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Call for a Royal Commission on justice and the protection of the public to be appointed. Given the ongoing appalling bloodshed on our streets and in our homes - largely through stabbings and gun crimes - which has led to very many law abiding citizens living in fear - and violent criminals being released too early, and back onto the streets by the Parole Board and others in authority - is it high time that such a Royal Commission was called for and demanded by victims of crime - their surviving relatives - and the general public? "
This being the Prime Minister’s website for no.10, Downing Street, London, SW1. UK.
The New Labour Government, after 10 years in power, have failed to deliver on their 1997 and 2001 General Election Manifesto promises under the following widely publicised slogans: -
‘Tough on crime - tough on the causes of crime’
‘Labour is the party of law & order in Britain today’
• Exposure of successive New Labour Home Secretaries - Mr David Blunkett MP, Mr Charles Clark MP and Dr John Reed MP - for ongoing, perceived failures in leading and controlling the various departments of the Home Office - so much so that it was described by Dr John Reed himself as ‘unfit for purpose’ - after just a short term in Post.
Home Office shortcomings - widely reported, include: -
1. Defective Risk Assessments by Parole Boards & Senior HM Prison staff - leading to premature release of convicted murderers who have then gone on to kill again. Also convicted murders and other violent criminals being downgraded towards the end of their sentences - and sent to either lower security category prison establishments - or Open Prisons.
At HMP Ford on the Sussex coast, many prisoners including violent ones, have simply absconded by walking away from the Jail. When the Director General of HM Prison Service, Mr Phil Wheatley, was questioned as to the number of abscondees rearrested and returned to Jails, he shrugged off responsibility by stating that it was his job to lock them up and the job of the Police to return them - and that no database was then available from which to extract the numbers asked for!
Furthermore, the general public have expressed considerable alarm at the latest proposals by liberal Home Office staff - to issue some prisoners with their own, personal key to their cell (to be known as ‘room’ not ‘cell’ these days!). This is to help prisoners in fear of being bullied or having their possessions stolen from their cell by other convicts - have the basic human right and dignity for such protection. Until news of this convict personal cell key issue was released, possession of a key by a convict was treated as a very serious matter indeed, for obvious reasons.
2. Apparently uncontrolled Immigration into the United Kingdom leading to the farcical situation in which a Home Office Senior Departmental Head was asked in Parliament how many illegal immigrants were currently at large in the UK replied, “I haven’t the faintest idea!”
3. The ongoing Home Office debacle in which more and more of its shortcomings and failures to act promptly or inform the Relevant Agencies of important matters were reported almost daily in the Press. Current proposals are to divide the Home Office into two separate Agencies, one part of which will be a Ministry of Justice.
AUTHOR'S NOTE : Some sections of chapter texts have been interposed between their original book chapters.