Denying Bail to Murderers Now a Breach of 'Human Rights'

You've almost got to appreciate the British for the clever methods of national suicide. Granted, this is just an extension of the leftist virus that long ago infected the European continent. They do have to keep up appearances, of course.

What the heck, it won't be long until sharia law is implemented and by that time there won't be any human rights to protect.

Murder suspects will continue to be granted bail after Government lawyers ruled that a blanket ban would breach their human rights.

The astonishing conclusion of a review ordered by Gordon Brown will be made public later today.

The Ministry of Justice was asked by Number 10 to consider whether the law should be changed to prevent suspected killers being released back on to the streets.

But Whitehall lawyers have concluded that any 'presumption' that a suspect should be denied bail would flout the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Convention - which Labour enshrined into British law via the Human Rights Act - states that all criminal suspects have the right to have their cases considered on their individual merits.

As a result, the courts will continue to grant bail to many of those accused of murder and manslaughter.

Earlier this year, it emerged that there were 60 murder suspects walking the streets while awaiting trial. This is one in every eight - or 13 per cent - of those currently charged with the offence.

The number let out in manslaughter cases is even more dramatic. Some 85 per cent of suspects studied in a Government 'snapshot' survey were on bail.

The Prime Minister ordered the review after policeman Garry Weddell was granted bail over the death of his wife.

Months later, he shot dead his mother-in-law and then killed himself.

I probably shouldn't poke too much fun at them; after all, we have enough mutants prowling our streets out on bail. But at least we still have the ability to deny bail.

Since I have that quaint notion that murdering someone is a fundamental breach of human rights, only some high-minded European commission could come up with the warped idea that denying bail to the perpetrator of such an act violates their human rights.

It defies all logic. Meaning look for U.S. Democrats to soon push hard for this.