JON VENABLES TO GET VOTE?

JON VENABLES TO GET VOTE?

Prisoners’ Union demands apology for Alan Johnson’s sick joke

The prisoner formerly known as Jon Venables is in prison waiting to hear his fate. His status is unknown. With a completely new identity, the slate wiped clean, it is doubtful that his recall as a lifer on life licence is legally valid. The authorities cannot have it both ways, grant a new identity and then when it suits them revert to the discarded identity. The unknown prisoner who’s conduct which landed him in prison is unknown, may unknowingly be entitled to the vote at the next general election. Under normal circumstances he would, as a prisoner on Remand, be entitled to the vote.

Whoever the prisoner is, whatever he may or may not have done, his status is a political prisoner. A very powerful pawn. The blame game has started, and the media and James Bulger’s mother are seeking human sacrifices. The Probation Service has come under attack for failing to supervise properly. Conveniently, a psychiatrist’s report is leaked claiming that Jon Venables was a minimum risk and could safely be released. It’s a damage limitation exercise. In this case, using a plaster on the Titanic. To add to the government’s woes, there is a grave danger that whoever the unknown prisoner is his human rights may be about to be violated.

Home Secretary, Alan Johnson feels that Labour’s abuse of human rights is a joke. The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Johnson, with his attack upon the Tories on Law and Order, joked that prisoners would be more likely to back the Conservatives if they had the vote. It is no laughing matter that for 5 years the government has so far failed to abide by the law relating to prisoners votes. This should be the perfect opportunity for the Tories, if they were really a serious Opposition, to attack Labour’s own goal.

The Association of Prisoners is demanding that Alan Johnson make a public apology for his senseless joke about abusing human rights.

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