Miscellaneous -
Human Rights 2
In
May 2001 Euro judges handed £10,000 each to the
families of notorious IRA killers who were shot
dead in an SAS ambush. The court said the Provos
had their human rights violated because the cases
were not properly investigated. Human rights
rules also meant Britain had to grant asylum to a
Taliban fighter who tried to kill our squaddies
in Afghanistan.
Essex
police decided to name and shame a one-man crime
wave called Gary Ellis, sentenced to
three-and-a-half years for burglary and car
crime. They planned to put up posters of
27-year-old Ellis in his home town of Brentwood.
But his lawyers won an injunction preventing the
police from going ahead. Ellis claimed it would
infringe his “human rights”. The
lawyers argued that putting up the posters would
breach both his and his family’s right to
privacy. Another triumph for the “human
rights” act. What about the right to privacy
of all those people whose homes were burgled by
Ellis? Once again, the “rights” of the
criminal come before those of his victims.
Durham
County Council pressed ahead with the closure of
a Barnard Castle home for the elderly - despite
admitting that it will interfere with residents'
human rights. Rage - the Relatives' Action Group
for the Elderly - challenged the council's
decision to close Stoneleigh. It claimed it had
overlooked residents' rights to respect for
family life and home, as detailed in the Human
Rights Act 1998. An independent inquiry found the
county had "failed in its duty of
considering Article 8 Schedule 1 of the Human
Rights Act 1998, to ensure that interference in
the rights of its residential care home residents
was justified." Further confirmation that
only asylum seekers and terrorists have Human
Rights in Britain.
A
shop boss who helped nail a thief by putting a
wanted picture in his window was ticked off by
cops. Police chiefs claim Craig Whittaker was
wrong to use the photo because he may have
breached the shoplifter’s human rights.
Craig, 32, put the picture in the front window of
his computer store in Warrington, Cheshire, after
his CCTV camera snapped the man nicking a £100
video camera. Within 48 hours two beat bobbies
recognised the face in the photo and arrested the
man, who was wanted for other offences.
Shoplifter Philip Crockett, 34, was given a
five-month jail sentence after admitting theft.
But instead of patting Craig on the back after
the hearing at Warrington Magistrates Court,
Cheshire police criticised him for potentially
breaching Crockett’s human rights and
insisted Craig’s actions could have
prejudiced a trial. A spokesman said, “We
would strongly dissuade people from doing
anything of this nature. The result may be
suspects end up acquitted on technicalities.
There is also a human rights issue.”
The Human Rights Act was introduced into British
law four years ago and is aimed at protecting
people’s rights. The shoplifting case could
have been wrecked by Article Eight of the law
which says all individuals are entitled to have
their privacy respected. And unless they give
permission for images from CCTV cameras to be
published it is considered a breach of their
privacy. Recently a serial burglar and drug
addict used the Human Rights Act to avoid being
named and shamed. Gary Ellis, 27, stopped Essex
cops from using him on a 3ft by 2ft poster in a
hard-hitting campaign to warn burglars their
faces would be put on billboards.
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