THE Brighton bomber, a man who tried to murder members of the democratically elected Government, is released as part of a democratic peace process.
A man convicted on six counts of supplying hard drugs avoids prison because he is suffering from HIV.
Now it is proposed that mentally ill people, guilty of no offence whatsoever, should be locked up indefinitely.
Now I know that the inmates are running the asylum!
Terence Miles,
Larch Street,
Bury,
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