Harry Roberts.

If ever a man should have gone to the gallows, it was Harry Roberts - a central figure in the history of the abolition of the death penalty. In 1966, he was the key man in the cold-blooded butchery of  41-year-old Police Constable Geoffrey Fox, Detective Sergeant Christopher Head, aged 30, and 25-year-old Temporary Detective Constable David Wombwell.  

This vile episode, The Shepherds Bush Murders, took place a matter of months after capital punishment was abolished - the worst police killings in UK history. 'Unconnected' according to the abolitionists who could not face their personal responsibility and guilt for the deaths of these heroic men.                                                      He has just been released from prison. This also underlines the lie that 'after abolition, life would mean life'. What I personally know, from a friend who came across him, for decades, he has been enjoying day release and work programmes outside prison. Society should be ashamed. The legal system should be ashamed. If a society does not deal with evil - it has no morality.
The individual must forgive what is done against them or theirs - but society MUST execute justice. Today is a black day in the annals of justice. According to our society - his life was of more value than those of the slaughtered.