WE knew homicidal brute Valdo Calocane slipped through the fingers of negligent medics.
Now we know how bungling police left him free to kill.
PANottingham stab victims, from left: Ian Coates, 65, Barnaby Webber and his friend Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19[/caption]
Had three cops properly probed an assault he committed at work, he would almost certainly not have been able to kill Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar, and Ian Coates, in Nottingham six weeks later.
Crucially, they even neglected to check his name on their national database.
That would have revealed an outstanding arrest warrant for assaulting a cop.
Yet the Independent Office of Police Conduct considers the officers’ failure too slight to merit sacking them.
Really? The cops admit being slapdash.
That had terrible, lethal consequences.
It was, the IOPC said, a “missed opportunity which may have prevented those attacks”.
The victims’ distraught relatives have been failed by the system at every turn, from the NHS to the CPS which accepted Calocane’s manslaughter plea instead of trying him for murder.
Now even the police watchdog lets off the blundering cops with a slap on the wrist and considers that job done.
The families are right to be outraged.
PANottingham killer Valdo Calocane[/caption]
Fund our forces
KEIR Starmer’s talk of putting British peace-keeping troops into Ukraine is commendable if a little premature.
Those arguing that Ukraine is not our fight are short-sighted.
GettyKeir Starmer is considering putting British troops in Ukraine as peacekeepers[/caption]
Putin’s imperialism must be contained for our sakes too.
But no one yet knows what US- brokered deal might yet be struck.
More worryingly, the PM is failing so far to put our money where his mouth is.
It is bizarre to commit troops amid so many warnings of our dire need to rearm and recruit.
Sir Keir must order the Treasury immediately to find billions for that — and cut elsewhere.
The bloated welfare and aid budgets are indefensible hallmarks of our complacency which we simply cannot now afford.
Rule by judges
LIBERAL judges seem to think they OWN immigration law.
And their boss confirms it.
AlamyBaroness Carr apparently wants judges to continue using the ECHR to override Government asylum policy[/caption]
The Lady Chief Justice is outraged that Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch dared to attack the abysmal court ruling that a Gazan family rejected for asylum should be given sanctuary here anyway on human rights grounds.
It’s “unacceptable”, snipes Baroness Carr.
She apparently wants judges to continue using the ECHR to override Government asylum policy, all while shielded from pesky politicians’ barbs.
Well, belt up, Baroness. As the PM rightly says: “It should be Parliament that makes the rules on immigration.”
The problem is judges do too, thanks to human rights laws he is wedded to.
How does he intend to tackle that?
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