It's All Just Show, Jess, Isn't It?

Nice of them to provide an illustraion of what 'loss of control' might look like...

It seems the 'Guardian' is putting its faith in the lank-haired chav Secretary. But is that borne out by action? Reader, it is not...

'I feel very scared for my safety, the parole board has said he is vengeful (Ed: then why are they letting him out?) and I've heard from people on his landing that he couldn't stop talking about me.

'I've been warned the first thing he's going to do is come straight for me.

''It's two-tier justice all over again - this government bends over backwards to give abusers another chance, and treats their victims like an afterthought.

'Tina says she feels badly let down by the justice system after being assured it would be 'many, many years before he was released'.

But Kier needs those prison spaces for his political enemies snd detractors... 

'If Jenkin is released my property must be urgently target hardened, I need cameras and a security consultant to help me.' Tina has also set up a petition against his release which has already been signed by more than 11,000 people. But instead of applauding her efforts to raise awareness, Tina claims probation chiefs 'told her off' for speaking out about her case with one asking her 'don't you feel sorry for him, putting this on his head?' She said: 'When they said that to me I felt confused - I have every right to speak out and I don't want this to be brushed under the carpet. I don't want this to happen to anybody else.'

I wonder if the Secretary would lend her some of her own party’s security, since all they are up against is mean words on the Internet? 

The Probation Service is currently investigating Tina's complaint about the comment and the staff member involved is understood to deny using those words.

Gosh, it's hard to decide who to believe, isn't it? Oh wait. no. It's not.  

But The Justice System Doesn't Believe Women Who Deny Domestic Abuse, Abigail

And I'm pretty sure you'd have been in favour of that....

A Bolton man who is on the run after being recalled to prison indefinitely has made a direct plea to the justice secretary to intervene in his case. Matthew Booth, 33, is wanted by police on recall to prison for a crime he committed when he was 15 and for which he has served a sentence. He was given an indefinite imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentence, meaning he can be recalled without notice for breaches of strict licence conditions.

The 'Guardian' has a bee in its bonnet about these, considering them cruel to criminals, and so paints a 'Robin Hood' picture of this wanted felon. 

He has pleaded with the justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to intervene after being accused of restarting a relationship with his former partner, Abigail Vernon, with whom he has two daughters, aged 10 and seven, without notifying the authorities. Booth and Vernon both deny this. They say the Parole Board is also under the misconception that Booth has been abusive to Vernon in the past. They say he has not.

Well, yes, I've no doubt they do. But prevailing wisdom in the justice system has been to no longer take the woman's word for it. Because it now recognises 'coercive control' i.e. women being stupid about what's really going on. 

IPP sentences under which offenders were handed a minimum jail term but no maximum were dropped over human rights concerns in 2012, seven years after they were introduced by New Labour.

Vernon denied the Parole Board’s claims that Booth had been abusive to her in the past, and she has asked that he is allowed to be managed in the community.

But why should anyone take notice of what she wants? 

Shirley Debono, a co-founder of IPP Committee in Action, who has supported Vernon and Booth, said: “Shabana Mahmood must intervene and stop Matthew from being sent back to prison.”

Must she? Why?