Blogger: I should not need to labour the point that as Straffen was found fit to plead to the third murder after having escaped from Broadmoor, he must have been fit to plead for the original killings, ergo should have hanged.
The fact that he did not hang was the irrefutable cause of the death of five year old Linda Bowyer during this escape.
This is apparently a side issue so trivial to abolitionists, both past and future, that this hideous consequence must never be permitted to trouble the liberal conscience.
This brings us to the point that, had this been a highly improbable, wrongful execution, this matter would still have been in the news to this day - almost seven decades later.
There would have been films and documentaries to cobble dogs with.
Seventy years on, we are still being assailed with piteous tales of the alleged innocence of the loathsome Timothy Evans, hanged in 1950, on the extremely dubious premise that a different murderer also happened to live in his block.
(On several occasions I have drawn attention to the definitive volume on this matter 'The Two Killers of Rillington Place.' Eddowes.)
Have any readers spotted a sickening double standard from our liberal brethren, I wonder?
