Radio 5 Live

Radio 5 Live

I will be on the Stephen Nolan show on Radio 5 Live at 10 o clock talking about the two recent cases of murder of the model and the prostitutes and whether justice/revenge is enough to satisfy the victims families or are they entitled to more.

UPDATE: There is a listen again facility for 7 days on the BBC website if anybody is interested in a audio firework display. Basically, the mother of Sally Ann Bowman spoke to the News of the Screws (and its sales would have gone up as a result) and stated how she was consumed with hate and she fed off it to keep her going. In contrast, Gee Walker has publicly stated that she forgives the killers of her son and stated that she will not allow herself to be consumed by hate as it does not serve any purpose.

There was some woman speaking who runs a so-called victim support group, Gaynor Bell who is the Chairperson of Support After Murder & Manslaughter (SAMM) in Merseyside. However, I don't think victims get proper support from someone like her as she is still filled with so much hate herself and they feed off each others hate like parasites sucking blood. Having heard her speak, I am surprised to note that she is on the Strategic Management Board of the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements panel in Merseyside. Obviously, it is just tokenism having input from a victim. Still, I feel it does not serve justice and may lead some to feel it takes us down the road to injustice. She is a believer that prisoners do not suffer enough in prison and she would like them to suffer more. Sad woman! (SAMM Merseyside website) Some chap came on who has moved on and spoke about restorative justice which I think is a better model of providing victim support.

Then we had some narrow minded windbag of a taxi driver, and a narrow minded lorry driver neither of them had anything positive to add to the discussion and they thought it was alright to throw insults my way and libel me on air.

It was certainly lively, and there were some good points made. But, I preferred the World Service interview because the level of debate is raised when insults are not flying around distracting from the main topic.

I am tickled that there will be some taxi and lorry drivers out there tonight getting hot under the collar. That's the problem with rednecks...

You can hear the show for the next 7 days by following the listen again link below.

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