Nick Freeman writes in the Manchester Evening News:
How many millions of hard earned tax payers’ money will be spent trying to catch Jo Yeates’s killer?
Hopefully nowhere near as many as the millions that were squandered in apprehending the wrong man in the Rachel Nickell murder case, before the real killer was finally caught – [...]
The weekend’s discovery of bombs sent as air-freight from Yemen has helped trigger a flurry of references to ID cards in the media. Anthony Glees writes in the Daily Telegraph:
One explanation for the weekend’s mystifying lack of urgency is that there was no specific intelligence in the UK that indicated a plot might be unfolding. [...]
Penny Nicholls of the Children’s Society and Isabella Sankey of Liberty, writing in Guardian Comment is Free, give their views on the closure of ContactPoint:
Penny Nicholls writes:
As an organisation in daily contact with children across the country, many of whom desperately need better coordinated and better quality universal services, we are disappointed that the ContactPoint [...]
Professor Conor Gearty and Tom Brake MP are trading Comment Is Free articles over the meaning of the Liberal Democrats’ actions on ID cards and DNA retention. On 9th July Prof Gearty wrote that their actions makes them Libertarians:
How real is the Liberal Democrats’ dedication to civil liberties? This may seem an odd question, given [...]
Alan Johnson MP, former Home Secretary, writes in the Yorkshire Post:
The DNA database has identified 410,589 crimes with a DNA match over the last decade.
Last year in 800 of the most serious cases – murder, rape and manslaughter – DNA was central to police inquiries.
The Government plans to reduce the DNA matches that the police [...]
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