Britain's Injustice System

                                                            Justice is a beautiful thing

Another day, another travesty of justice.

Derek Grant, 38, father of three is jailed for 6 years for killing Patrick Bradley, 29, who had stabbed him in the eye.

The confrontation began when Bradley robbed Grant’s 19-year-old son  Jordan  at knifepoint. Grant used the “Find My iPhone” app to locate the stolen phone. When he tracked down Bradley he ordered him to return the phone. I guess the punk was feeling lucky, because he then stabbed Grant in the left eye, permanently blinding him. Normally, that would have been that. Or perhaps Bradley described in court as “a man of violence” would have finished off his maimed victim. Just another sad murder of a decent man who had made the mistake of being a good citizen.

But as it turned out Grant found something from deep inside and managed to stab his assailant back 5 times. Bradley later died in hospital.

Passing sentence the judge, Lord Boyd, used a lying pretence and a flawed argument to sugar over the disgraceful injustice of imprisoning Grant.

The lying pretence was to refer to Bradley’s parents’ victim impact statement. Not surprisingly, they were upset at their son’s death which had left them “broken hearted”. But as every judge is aware the victim statement has no bearing whatsoever on the sentence. The judge is explicitly forbidden from taking it into consideration. The only reason he brought it up in this case was to present Bradley as the victim, worthy of justice.

The flawed argument he then used should be nothing of the sort. He argued that it was the police’s role alone to enforce the law and rejected Grant’s claim that he brought the knife with him for self-defence. And if the justice system were functioning the judge would be absolutely right. The compact that every citizen is assumed to have made with the authorities is that he gives up all rights to personal vengeance in return for the protection and provision of justice by the sovereign power.

This is the basis of every civilised society. You simply can’t have citizens running around taking personal revenge. The end game of such a society would be Afghanistan.

The problem is that contemporary Britain is not civilised. It’s run by a socialist oligarchy that refuse on their leftist principles to keep their side of the bargain.

The judge loftily told Grant that “All you needed to do was to phone the police and give them the information. However, you armed yourself with a knife and … went looking for him.”

But the mendacious Lord knows just as Mr Grant knew and as we all do that if he had given the police the address details of Bradley, there was a very good chance that they would have done nothing. And if they had done something the courts would have passed a paltry sentence such as a community-service order.

Rather than quoting statistics on this, let’s just consider the case of the serial violent offender, Patrick Bradley. How was Bradley was even able to mug Grant’s son if he had already been convicted of ten assaults, one of which was for stabbing another unfortunate in the eye? Why was he not already in prison?

He was not in prison because leftists consider criminals to be the victims of an unjust society and find every pretext to avoid punishing them. To your average leftie it’s much better that innocent citizens should be punished in the course of the freed criminal’s next crimes. In their warped mindset this somehow redresses the injustice of society

If the state had done its job there could not have been a mugging at knifepoint and Mr Grant would be free and of course Bradley would still be alive.

The state’s monopoly on force and justice is the very foundation stone of a civilised society. But that great power is only defensible if they are fulfilling their side of the social compact.

If your son is mugged at knifepoint, the only thing preventing you from taking justice into your own hands is the knowledge that the police and justice system will bring the offender to justice. That knowledge creates a civilised society.

Mr Grant’s actions were very likely the direct result of his knowledge that the state would do nothing to right the wrong done to his son. The judge should have had the decency to concede how his court is failing in its duty to provide justice by giving justice to Mr Grant.

Mr Grant should have been freed with the thanks of a grateful society ringing in his ears and compensation for the loss of sight in his left eye.

Instead he’s starting what is likely to be at least 3 years imprisonment surrounded by the scum of the earth.

Britain’s justice system is disgusting.