Scamming the airwaves

I must be the most fortunate man in the world, in the last week I’ve been left $4.5 million in a will, had £400,000 left by a Nigerian cooperation, been informed of a $10.7 million trust fund which can be picked up in the United States and been blessed by a...

Daniel Pelka

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01crmrp Start: 1.10Well here we are again. Another little boy murdered sadistically by people who are a disgrace to parenthood. It’s left me thinking that, after doing several radio interviews about it, I wonder just how much...

Home and Away

A lot of work was put into what became the 1998 Sexual Offences Act. There were two parts to this legislation. The first part created the register of sex offenders in the UK which has become a strong part of our control mechanisms today. The second part was...

Where is the balance?

The fact that Stuart Hall’s case has been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Attorney General is at least reassuring but still illustrates the imbalance in sentencing that frequently occurs up and down the country when we look at offences against...

Frozen Childhood

(This is an article I wrote a while ago but still feel is very relevant now – what are your thoughts on this?)When you’re four or five and you’re very small and every night is filled with the sounds of arguments, the screaming, the hitting and the crying seem to...