Lockerbie - a thought on sentencing

Something that just occurred to me. Why was the "Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny McAskill" (tee hee) allowed to release Bertiebaset anyway? Surely that would mean that a politician is deciding how long a convicted criminal should serve in prison.



Doesn't that contradict the European Convention on Human Rights? This came up in 2002 when Dennis Stafford went crying to Strasbourg that nasty Jack Straw wouldn't let him out of prison. Why haven't Amnesty and Barnoness Helena Kennedy and the Left's other useful idiots been out in force to complain about it this time round?



Ah, I see - it's fine for polticians to SHORTEN prison sentences, because that's showing compassion blah blah fishcakes, but if they LENGTHEN the prison sentence then this is an abuse of power, it's for the courts to decide etc etc etc.



Of course, had we found an alternative way to punish Bertiebaset we wouldn't have all this hand-wringing now: