Thursday, January 17, 2008

Coverage of the Newlove verdict


The ending of the trial of those accused of killing Warrington Father Garry Newlove has attracted much press attention this morning,with most of the paper focusing on the comments of hos widow and the fact that one of those found guilty had just been released on police bail.

Interestingly though only a couple of paper this morning choose the theme for their leader columns

Shame of our society says the Mirror

The senseless murder of Gary Newlove was truly shocking.
That he had beaten cancer 15 years earlier only to be killed by three yobs adds to the feelings of outrage.
When a father cannot leave his house to speak to teenagers he suspects of vandalising his car, then something is terribly wrong with our society


The Sun says

POLICE catch criminals. Courts punish them.
That’s the bargain between citizen and state. We call it justice.
But justice means nothing when decent parents are murdered on their doorstep by drunken thugs.
adding that

a growing pattern of negligence and complacency is putting safety at risk

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