Quangoid - // Why is this waste of oxygens wishlist in a national paper? Surely the the reporter should be sacked for this alarming non story. //
Because your newspaper of choice does this kind of thing to create exactly the reaction you have given us - to get all het up about something which is not actually happening.
Now that you know his `list`is not real, you are turning your ire on the journalist who has simply provided you with a few degrees of higher blood pressure, in common with your fellow readers.
Before you turn your attention to the prospect of the prisoner being freed, and getting all het up again about that - remember that he is `considering an appeal' - that means he is thinking about it, not that it is happening tomorrow, and he will be occupying the flat next door to you by the weekend.
You really need to a) calm down and b) read what is in front of you, not what makes you leap to the biggest anger-provoking conclusion.