The killer was Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, born in 2006 in Cardiff, Wales, to Christian parents originally from Rwanda.
She is reported to have been denied temporary release and that has triggered the three high Tory women. They say Connolly’s sentence is excessive, that the mum should be with her kids, and blame the “two-tier justice system which now prevails in Britain”, meaning the legal system is dominated by left-wing ideologies.
Last week, I interviewed the lawyer Harriet Wistrich, about her new book, Sister in Law, Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men. She has dedicated her professional and personal life to that cause.
Her relentless pursuit of that ended the crimes of John Worboys, the black-cab driving multiple rapist who is now behind bars. The book contains several cases of women who should never have been jailed. I would be happy to introduce Braverman, Truss and Badenoch to Ms Wistrich. But I doubt they would be interested, because their interventions are nothing to do with fairness.
The Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood believes “prison isn’t working for women”.
Many serve short sentences or are on remand, but that often causes them to lose jobs and homes. Three quarters have or develop mental health problems. Self-harm figures are eight times higher for women than for men in our jails. Some of the self-inflicted wounds are severe. The vast number of female inmates are not violent, and not a danger to society. In prison, they fall apart or close off. One woman was sent down for six weeks for stealing a British Rail sandwich. Her life never recovered. It’s a massive tragedy.
The Tory trio who demand justice for Connolly need to widen their campaign and include all women in prison who should not be there.
They will not heed this leftie. So I give them Lady Edwina Grosvenor, daughter of the late, very wealthy Duke of Westminster, a tireless reformer calling for better alternatives to imprisonment for females. The heiress, a trained criminologist, funds progressive criminal justice initiatives and she has set up Hope Street in Southampton, a community centre to rehabilitate female offenders. Over to you Truss, Badenoch and Braverman. This is your chance to do more than just light populist bonfires.
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