With the media already at full frenzy over an anarchic and lawless Britian,this wasn't the week for details of the ruling on the killer of Philip Lawrence.

The press have gone to town on the ruling focusing initially on the comments of the headteachers widow,and then opening up the debate about the country's signing up to the European convention on human rights.

The Sun in its leader today perhaps reflecting the views of the silent majority when it says

BRITISH justice is kinder to a murdering Italian thug than it is to his victim’s widow.
Frances Lawrence has seen Learco Chindamo, who killed her husband Philip, win a Human Rights battle to stay in Britain.
She had to hear the bombshell news on her car radio because nobody took the trouble to tell her.

Of all the papers though it is only the Independent which asks whether there is a case for redemption on its front page

But should Learco Chindamo be given a second chance in British society?

Prison reports show that the 26-year-old Londoner has made excellent progress and in many ways has become a model example ofcustodial rehabilitation. Those who have worked with him during his sentence regard him as a model prisoner who is very unlikely to re-offend.
His solicitor, Nigel Leskin, said last night: "He is a genuinely reformed person and one of the best prisoners the prison has had. He knows he made a terrible mistake and regrets it very much."

Not wishing to sound like the preverbial lefty liberal,the media I believe needs to re examine some of its coverage.Indeed the reason cited by the boy's solicitor for the hearing to have been heard in private was that when on day release last year,he was persued by the media.

For those that remember,the stabbing of Philip Lawrence,a headteacher intervening in a case of bullying, was an awful crime and the courts at that time set the perameters for his sentance.

If the boy has been rehabilitated during his prison term,why should he be deported to a country of which he has little or no ties and doesnt speak the language?

I qusetin whether this is directed at European human rights rather than the individual concerned