CPS found guilty of flaw and disorder as whimpering Alison Saunders ‘blames everyone but herself on her way out’
WHIMPERING Alison Saunders bids a tearful farewell after five disastrous years as Crown Prosecutor.
On her way out she blames everyone but herself — from Plod to the Chancellor — for the most shameful record as Director of Public Prosecutions since her predecessor, Labour poodle Keir Starmer.
Mrs Saunders — soon to be dubbed a Dame unless the innocent victims of her bungled rape vendetta win their campaign to block it — is going after just one term and for good reason.
The office she holds has been stained by a catalogue of groundless prosecutions on the one hand and institutionalised failure to pursue real criminals on the other.
Mrs Saunders openly admits the CPS and police fail to investigate thousands of cases — from rape to fraud to modern slavery.
They wrecked young men’s lives by blocking evidence proving their total innocence.
“As the DPP, I accept responsibility for what happens in the service,” she says. “I could have stood there and blamed the police and say it all starts with them, but I don’t think it helps.”
Perhaps, but it didn’t stop her doing so.
As DPP, Mrs Saunders may be the head of a rotting fish, but her departure marks just the latest crisis in Britain’s long and abject surrender on crime and punishment.
It is a story stretching back decades to an era which began putting criminals first and victims last. Indeed criminals are now seen as victims themselves if they can plead poverty and deprivation.
Part of the problem lies in schools where teachers have abandoned classroom discipline. This might explain why a quarter of ALL crime is committed by ten to 17-year-olds.
A recent spate of official reports prove police and prosecutors have effectively left the battlefield.
Stabbings, mostly involving young black men, are rampant with the UK murder rate spiralling by 14 per cent since last year and now at the highest level since 2008.
Reported crime has soared to 5.6million, the highest for 13 years. Yet arrests have halved, from 1.4million in 2008 to less than 700,000 today, the lowest for 16 years.
Criminals, often violent repeat offenders, are frequently given cautions rather than put in a cell.
If charged, they might never go to court. The CPS bins tens of thousands of cases each year.
If convicted, they are likely to be given community sentences. If jailed, they are let out at half time to rob, maim or kill again.
Authorities tie themselves in knots keeping dangerous people out of “overcrowded” jails. The real reason is cash.
This month, Islamist rabble rouser Anjem Choudary, a declared threat to national security, was freed after half his sentence.
Strictly star Katie Piper lives in fear of her acid attacker after he was released just nine years into a “life” sentence.
Stabbings are so common they have become a daily fact of life. Bobbies on the beat are so rare they are seen by the law-biding public as “irrelevant”.
South London grime artist Stormzy said yesterday he’s been stabbed so often, once in the head, he thought it was “normal”.
“Where I come from is mad,” he says. “We live in this warped view of reality and it’s not our fault.”
Yes, everyone’s a victim now. This even includes the 20 “mostly Pakistani” gang rapists who abused 15 vulnerable “mostly white” girls, one aged 11.
Pakistani-descent Home Secretary Sajid Javid was blasted by human rights campaigners for labelling them “Asian paedophiles”.
Ex-CPS prosecutor Nazir Afzal says it was once government policy to blame the girls for their plight.
Golden Brexit
REMAINER minister David Lidington evokes the memory of Black Wednesday to scare us off a No Deal Brexit.
This was the moment in 1992 when Britain was kicked out of preparations to join the euro, costing Tories the next General Election.
The event was swiftly renamed Golden Wednesday as Britain, freed from the coils of the single currency, rebounded with stunning, unbroken economic growth that lasted until the credit crunch in 2008.
As we leaped free, the EU began its long slide into mass unemployment and stagnation now approaching its climax with a budget revolt in bankrupt Italy. Like Brexit, this was exactly the right thing to do for Britain.
Mr Lidington seems to be suggesting the British national interest comes second to the survival of the Tories.
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“In 2008, the Home office sent a circular to all police forces saying ‘as far as these young girls who are being exploited, we believe they have made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour and therefore it is not for you police officers to get involved’,” he told the BBC.
Labour’s Jacqui Smith was Home Secretary then but little changed during Theresa May’s five-year stint in the job.
After eight years in power, Conservatives can no longer claim to be the party of law and order.