Britain retains Paedophile, why?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....rbour-paedophile.html

We continue to operate a police presence outside a foreign embassy, ready to arrest a supposedly rapist and then extradite him to Sweden, and yet we refuse to extradite a paedophile to America.

Why the double standards?

[Duncer]

Based on the evidence there it seems very strange indeed.

[jake-the-peg]

Well this is a really poor article isn't it?

It looks like the concern is about this "civil commitment" thing the Americans have going on.

I had to go and read another website to try to find out what that is because the Telegraph didn't seem to want to burden me with pertinant facts.

http://www.doc.wa.gov...s/civilcommitment.asp


It looks like civil commitment is a process whereby after someone's done his time in prison the state can apply to a court to say that they're still a threat and should continue to be locked up indefinately.

If I've got that right it raises questions about the case - like whether he's actually completed his sentence - if not why is civil confinement an issue?

The matter of continuing to imprison someone after they've served their sentence because you've 'changed your mind' about them is a worrying one - we do something similar with IPP cases but those are sentences imposed at the time of the original court case so are subtly different.

[emmie]

no idea quite frankly, no more than why the three Jordanian paralympians are going to be allowed to compete in the games, even though they have charges of sexual assault against them.

[Duncer]

They've gone home em.

[jno]

no they aren't?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...hern-ireland-19355630

[Duncer]

Yes they are?

[jno]

sorry, Duncer, that was for em, you weren't there when I started writing.

[Duncer]

I was, you just didn't know I was.

[eyethenkyew]

This is nothing more than blatant abuse of reporting by the Telegraph. The article actually says that this individual is wanted in the States "on suspicion" of abusing teenage girls. He has not even been tried. Therefore referring to him as a "paedophile" is completely wrong.

Much though I wish every padophile to be strung up by the testicles, they at least need to be first convicted as such. Otherwise, all law abiding people would just descend to being nothing better than lynch mobs and vigilantes ourselves.

[emmie]

wonder if they will come back.

The Jordanian Paralympic Committee has announced that the men will be flown home on Thursday but will return to court in Northern Ireland on October 18 for their hearing.

[Duncer]

The King of Jordan has taken an interest and I believe he has said they will return.

[Gromit]

We will not extradite someone who faces being locked up forever without a trial. The US were asked for an assurance that that would not happen. They refused, so we denied the extradition.

[bazwillrun]

"This is nothing more than blatant abuse of reporting by the Telegraph."

According to some on this board only the Daily Mail indulge in such practices, not an upmarket broadsheet.....whod a thought it ?!

[anotheoldgit]

bazwillrun

/// According to some on this board only the Daily Mail indulge in such practices, not an upmarket broadsheet.....whod a
thought it ?! ///

It's got nothing to do with what the newspaper is called, ie Daily Mail/Telegraph etc, it is all right-wing news sheets the left would wish to see the end of.