Should this jailed drug trafficker be allowed to father a child?

[anotheoldgit]

If he is allowed, who will pay the IVF treatment costs at between £4,000 and £8,000 each time?

Or are they really looking at the case below, which brought in a nice £18,000, if they are refused their request?

/// In 2007, Kirk Dickson, then 35, and wife Lorraine, then 49, were awarded £18,000 in damages and costs after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the British government had violated their right to have a child by not allowing them to to have artificial insemination while Mr Dickson was jailed for murder.///

[another-view]

Why shouldn't a criminal be allowed to have children?
i assume, they will pay for it themselves, as other couples have to.

[standian]

I personally don't think any IVF treatment should be funded by the NHS, and I am surprised by the case you quote as I thought there was a maximum age for NHS funded IVF treatment regardess of whether the parents were criminals or saints, and the mother would have been over that age. But as for the fact that he is a jailed drug trafficker - if they can afford the treatment or have a child naturally then up to them.

[milliezoe]

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We will stump the cost as usual ( £200.000) for peter sutcliffe to gain his release on legel aid) where is the logic in that he murdered 13 women and is still costing us a bloody fortune !!!!!

[Norberto]

I'm going to represent criminals at the European Court claiming damages because the British Government has violated their rights to go down the pub for a few beers just because they've been banged up for murder. I'm gonna be rich!!!!!

[Ankou]

this was going on in 2007 ? has something happened in the meantime ? is this 'news' ?

he kicked a man to death because of a row over some ciggies, and they met while she was in the nick for fraud. what fine parents they would make.

[anotheoldgit]

Ankou

That case was only a foot note to the main question.

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//// Why shouldn't a criminal be allowed to have children?////

Because of the small matter, that he is in jail, they can have as many as they like when he comes out.

[Ankou]

she would be too old for ivf treatment on the nhs i think.

[flip_flop]

This is by far the easiest question to answer I've ever seen on this site.

No, he should not.

[sp1814]

This is a no-brainer.

Yes, people DO have a right to have a family, but if you're in jail, those rights (and the right to vote in elections should be withdrawn until you're released.

Loosing basic freedoms is the whole point of custiodial sentences....!

[another-view]

My apologies. I didn't realise he was still in jail.