I wrote a book as a warning ...

With the tragic deaths of Fiona Pilkington and her disabled daughter in the news - driven to suicide by sickening, out of control yobs on their estate, we should feel truly ashamed as a society.

Place the blame fairly and squarely where it belongs, however - in the hands of the do-gooders who have removed punishment, fear, justice and common sense from our dealings with young scum.

Listen to them bleat now. "Something should have been done!" "What a terrible tragedy!" "Blame the police!" "Blame social services!"

The law is in utter disrepute.

NO, you sickening liberals, THE BUCK STOPS WITH YOU! Nothing could be done, that is the point. Police and courts have NO powers to deal adequately.

All people have to do is to listen to the complaints of other families on the same estate whose lives have also been turned into a misery to know the truth.

I wrote a novel in 2006 called The Unassuming Assassin which asks the vexed question whether or not vigilanteism can ever be justified when justice in society has failed.

It seems that the book has some relevance here.

AND NO! I emphatically do not want to see patrols of our streets by baseball bat-wielding, self-appointed Judge Roy Beans but ....