Those of you who are of a certain age will remember the Yorkshire Ripper - Peter Sutcliffe.
The man casued genuine fear and panic ovre the part of the world in which I lived in those days.
The fear was so tangible that when the Night clubs and disco's closed the police would offer lifts home to all the girls to ensure their safe arrival.
Sutcliffes story is pretty well known - he was eventually caught by accident - and a sharp eyed police man - this was some two years after he had been identified as a prime suspect by a junior officer - whose report was ignored.
At the time the head of the police investigation a monumentally stupid man was fixated by 4 letters and a cassette tape from a man claiming to be the Yorkshire ripper.
There were two problems with this - firstly the man had a pronounced wearside accent - and the letters came from that part of the world - and secondly he had an innacurate knowledge of Sutcliffes MO.
Recently the fellow was idenified by DNA, and as you might expect he is an inadequate loser- The plods were determined to get their man though, and this fellow has just been sentanced to 8 years for perverting the course of justice.
To his credit the judge in his summary indecated that no-one appeared to have died as a consequence of his deception - but I think he is now being punished in addition for the stupidity and incompetence of the West Yorkshire police
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... altop.html
kind of typical of the world in which we live - sending this man to jail for 8 years is not going to bring anyone back - he is not a danger to society - just one of the waifs and strays who are created by the world.
I am pissed at my taxes being spent on this