An article in the Daily Telegraph to-day (21 August 2013) reveals that Arthur Hutchinson, a convicted triple murderer and also a rapist, sentenced to 18 years in jail by a British Court, which on appeal confirmed the whole life sentence, has now appealed.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) last month ruled that to condemn murderers to a sentence that means they will die in Jail, is "inhuman and degrading" !
The sheer facts of this case make me seethe. Have the Strasbourg Judges completely lost their sense of justice ? Can they logically explain how anyone who deprives another Human Being the right to live by callously killing him, has any semblance of a right not to be punished severely ? Has a killer not automatically surrendered all his Human Rights ?
The ECHR has gradually extended its initial terms of reference after the Death Penalty was abolished. This court seems to have forgotten that "victims" and also "potential victims" have Human Rights ! "Potential Victims" expect the protection which comes when "potential killers" weigh-up what they want to do !
The ECHR has a clear duty to deter criminals !
European politicians also have a clear duty to defend their electors and the time has come to revise the Treaties which cover the Principles and Duties of the Judges of the ECHR !
Should David Cameron not instruct Manual Barroso to put this question on the Agenda of the next meeting of the COUNCIL of the EUROPEAN UNION ? Only a determined action by the EU as a whole can lead to changes in the habits of the ECHR ! Is this not the hidden message in the remarks by Angela Merkel last week ?
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