Lord Judge see Justice is Done
Sometimes the judges get it right:
A ‘mild-natured’ middle-aged man who stabbed a teenager in the throat after being attacked by the axe-wielding youth in his own home has been spared jail by the nation’s most senior judge.
Kenneth Blight, 51, who left 19-year-old Andrew Nelson with life-threatening injuries after the drink and drug-fuelled teenager attacked him with the axe, was described today by Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice, as ‘a decent middle-aged man in his own home, goaded beyond endurance’.
Blight was handed a two-year suspended sentence by a judge at Teesside Crown Court on October 19 last year… Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC, asked London’s Appeal Court to put him behind bars, because she felt the sentence was ‘unduly lenient’. But her application has now been refused by Lord Judge who called the decision to let Blight walk free ‘humane and justifiably merciful’…
Lord Judge then went further and allowed an appeal against the length of Blight’s suspended term, cutting it from two years to one, after ruling that it had been ‘unlawful’ to impose such a long suspended term for this offence.
Prime Minister’s Questions: Who to Believe?
I suppose it all depends upon your point of view:
I thought Gordon Brown was flailing all over the place at PMQs today, even having to resort to his ‘no time for a novice’ jibe. Cameron had him on the ropes on social care policy…It was a poor performance from the Prime Minister for the second week in a row, following a series of much more vigorous performances in January.
Or, James Macintyre:
There is no doubt that, objectively, Gordon Brown got the better of David Cameron at prime minister’s questions today, with a series of powerful put-downs against a Tory leader who sought to pick holes in the Government’s social care policy.
In the interests of true impartiality, why not watch it yourself and make up your own mind about our gloriously inept, deceitful and incompetent soon-to-be-ex leader.
