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Monday, November 13, 2006 |
DailyMail: "The Government last week cravenly surrendered control of the independence of our criminal justice system to the United States.
It rejected a final chance to make two key amendments to the Extradition Act 2003 - a dereliction of duty that means American secret agents can now arrest us in our own country."
DailyMail: "Undercover American agents are staging secret 'sting' operations in Britain against criminal and terrorist suspects they want to extradite to the US.
In a recent operation, agents from America's Department of Homeland Security set up a suspect by posing as dealers wanting to illegally sell night-vision goggles for export to Iran.
The case has provoked a huge row because the agents used tactics banned in Britain. In addition, the offence of which he is accused would not be a crime in this country. If British police officers had employed this type of sting, the ensuing case would almost certainly be thrown out of court."
Isn't inciting and eliciting crime a crime in itself?
Guardian: "More than 160 prison officers were involved in inflicting and covering up a regime of torture which saw savage beatings, death threats and sexual assault inflicted on inmates, a secret report reveals today.
The Guardian has learned full details of the Prison Service's reports on a nine-year reign of terror at Wormwood Scrubs in west London. Many incidents which the Prison Service had publicly refused to admit are acknowledged in the reports, which remained confidential until now. Some managers colluded in the abuse and turned a blind eye, says one report, which brands the terror as the worst case of prisoner abuse in modern history with 164 officers involved from 1992 to 2001."
12:39:26 PM 
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Scotsman: "She sits on a verandah in Botswana, drinking red bush tea, admiring the faultless blue skies and running the 'World's Best Detective Agency Ever! No 2'. Sound familiar?
He is a hard-drinking, hard-bitten policeman who treads the dark shadows of Edinburgh's criminal underbelly solving dastardly murders. Recognise him?
Mma Precious Ramotswe, the fictional creation of Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, and Inspector John Rebus, writer Ian Rankin's dishevelled but dedicated cop? Not quite.
They are Mma Delicious Ontoaste and Inspector Scott Rhombus, the satirical creations of author Toby Clements who has set out to poke fun at the work of some of the world's most famous crime fiction writers.
He also takes a swipe at the sleuths created by Patricia Cornwell, the US's best-selling crime writer and the phenomenally successful Swedish author Henning Mankell."
It wouldn't be difficult to parody Henning Mankell. He always begins each chapter with a time clause or indication of time. The solution eludes him until the end when the whole police crew heads home and Wallander goes after the criminal alone, against all rules, then at the final moment he is being shot at, but a fraction of a second before that he simply trips over something and is saved. Afterwards he is depressed like they can only be depressed in Sweden.
And the name Mma Murakami of course refers to that other Japanese bestseller writer, Haruki Murakami.
The No. 2 Global Detective.
Clements also wrote a parody of The Da Vinci Code.
12:27:00 PM
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The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) is to report in the coming months on whether it believes there was a miscarriage of justice in the Lockerbie trial.
SundayHerald: "Michael Scharf, who was the counsel to the US counter-terrorism bureau when the two Libyans were indicted for the bombing, described the case as 'so full of holes it was like Swiss cheese' and said it should never have gone to trial."
This blog has reported several times about this show trial.
11:53:21 AM
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