Support Package
From The New Scotsman, via Ken Lammers:
For almost 13 hours, the woman had been held hostage at knifepoint by a convicted sex attacker who repeatedly raped her as police stood outside his home trying to negotiate her release.
But when Sean McKay fell asleep, his terrified victim finally saw the chance to end her horrific ordeal.
She could not risk wakening him by calling out to the police, but she was able to scrawl the message, “Force the door”, in condensation on a window for officers to see. She then rushed to the front door, and began to haul at the furniture that McKay had stacked behind it as a barricade, while police pushed from the other side. The officers managed to pull her to safety just as McKay woke up, dashed into the hall and tried to grab her.
The case has sparked calls for a fresh examination of how sex offenders are monitored after it emerged that McKay had two previous convictions for sex attacks, had been assessed as likely to reoffend and had been under supervision.
The article then goes to explain about assessment and supervision. Red curtain of blood time here:
[Judge] Lord Kinclaven deferred sentence on McKay until July, to obtain a risk assessment report that could lead to a lifelong restriction order, under which McKay would remain in jail until it was deemed safe to release him, and then be monitored stringently in the community.
First: I am so happy that my Constitution forbids upper class twits like this demanding that we refer to them as “Milord”. “Your Honor” is quite bad enough, thenkyewveddymuhch.
Then: Wow, talk about not getting the point.
What about this incident inspires any confidence at all that the Crown has any competence whatsoever in deeming when it is safe to release a rapist?
I love this bit: after being released the last time he raped somebody, the goblin had a “substantial support package”. Off-color jokes aside, what sort of support is being offered to the person McKay regards as his personal sex toy? Here’s an idea: how about a nice little .38 special revolver, training and practice at the police range, and a lifetime supply of ammo? Oh, wait, sorry, she might take it in her head to drive to Dunblane. Besides, as we all know, “A woman lying raped and strangled with her own pantyhose is morally superior to a woman standing over a dead rapist with a smoking gun in her hand.” Never mind.
Please note the crime was not committed with one of those demon-haunted chunks of steel, wood, and plastic that emit eeevill mind-control rays that force ordinary, law-abiding folks to commit acts of violence, but with a knife. I suppose we should be grateful the goblin didn’t use a fire-extinguisher.
Obviously, an adequately stringent support package for the goblin consists of irons or a rope. Not likely, of course, because that kind of harshness might hurt his feelings.
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Not at all incidentally, that Dunblane link goes to the International Action Network on Small Arms, a group dedicated to dancing in the blood of those who have been rendered defenseless by idiots like themselves. Lord Kinclaven would fit right in:
The anniversary of Dunblane is a time to remember those who were lost in this, the most shocking civilian shooting in Britian’s collective memory, to reevaluate how far we have come to building a safe and secure society, and to consolidate our energy for the battles we still have yet to fight, to ensure that this never happens again.
You thugs, you certainly haven’t built a safe and secure Britain; you’ve ripped it apart. British subjects are helpless, while British yobs grow in boldness. Almost every one of these events happened in places where the victims were forced to depend on the state for protection, and by definition, in every single case, the state failed to protect its victims. The “battles we have yet to fight” is particularly juicy, since the whole point of their organization is to make it impossible to fight any battles. Except, of course, I’m sure they have no plan whatsoever to disarm themselves and their bodyguards, only those of us they would have call them lords.
April 20th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
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