A millionaire businessman has been jailed for attacking a man who held his family hostage in their own home - while the criminal went free.
Munir Hussain, who was threatened at knifepoint and tied up by a gang of masked men in his living room last year, was told he must go to prison for 30 months to preserve “civilised society”.
But Walid Salem, a criminal with more than 50 convictions, was handed a two-year supervision order for his role in the break-in at an earlier hearing.
He will get an easy ride in jail as the screws will treat him sympathetically, notwithstanding his race and skin colour. Nevertheless, I don't think his being jailed will in any way preserve civilised society. What his family underwent from the attackers is not part of civilised society, rather it was more akin to jungle law. The test for imprisonment in this case is Munir Hussain a risk to the public of re-offending? No, so a suspended sentence could have been imposed. There is something unfair about one side being constrained by the law whilst the other has no such constraints.
For me a bigger threat to civilised society is Jack Straw taking the law into his own hands in the Prisoners Votes Case!
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That is appalling, it makes me angry!
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