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1. Inspector Gadget thinks that the courts may have been a little too lenient:

'CID put a burglar with 80 previous convictions before the court, charged with several shed-breaks. He pleaded guilty.

This offender has 14 offences against police, prisons and courts. This means, in his case, that he as breached the last Community Order he was sentenced to and has been recalled to prison after breaking his licence conditions on three separate occasions. In effect, the last three times he was let out of prison early on licence, he failed to stick to the licence conditions and was returned to prison. On two occasions, this happened within 24 hours of release.

From what we know after speaking to him in interview, and looking at forensic ‘hits’ at crime scenes where we know the dates, he is regularly committing crime during these community order and early release periods.

This man is not a drug addict, not is he especially poor. He is simply a career criminal who enjoys what he does and sees nothing wrong in taking other people’s things. He also likes the reputation he has on his estate for being a bad lad.

Back to the case. He pleaded guilty to the breaks we could prove and took another handful of ‘TIC’s’ to clear his slate. Remember, he has 80 previous convictions and a history of breaching court orders and licence conditions.

He was sentenced to another Community Order.'

2. The BBC slip out a short report that 'Interpol has issued international alerts for 47 Saudi men, some accused by Saudi Arabia of links with al-Qaeda.'


3. Meanwhile the BBC also report that:

'Egypt has recalled its ambassador to the Vatican for consultation after Pope Benedict XVI urged the country to do more to protect its Christian minority.

In an address to ambassadors at the Vatican on Monday, the Pope cited recent attacks on Christians in Egypt and Iraq.

An Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman said the remarks were "unacceptable".'

Unacceptable to require a country to look after a minority community?


4. Weather Action report Piers Corbyn's claims that th Australian floods are nothing to do with global warming but due to the 19yr eclipse cycle.


5. The Mail reports the case of a Somali who claimed to have been gang-raped and witnessed family's murder in Somalia but was exposed as £250k benefit fraudster. This fraudster became a British citizen by fraudulent means but will try and use that citizenship to prevent being deported back to Somalia; how stupid are we in this country?