Lethal gamble
JUDGE Alison Raeside took a terrible gamble, with fatal consequences for little Sara Sharif.
She knew the troubled Sharif family. She had presided over several of their hearings since Sara was a baby.
There were fatal consequences for little Sara Sharif[/caption]
In October 2019 she even had a report detailing how the girl’s father Urfan had been arrested four times for alleged violence against three women.
But the judge said “I am going to hope for the best” and handed Sara over to live with him and stepmother Beinash Batool.
It was an appalling miscalculation.
They systematically beat and tortured the ten-year-old and are both serving life for her murder.
Judge Raeside and two others have been named only after a Press campaign successfully overturned another judge’s sinister and unprecedented efforts to keep them anonymous.
It is absolutely right for the public to know who made a decision which even now appears inexplicable.
Ed Mili-tant
ED Miliband wants his eco allies to consider him a Net Zero champion of unbending principle.
We know he protested in Cabinet over Rachel Reeves’ proposed third runway at Heathrow because, conveniently for him, it was leaked to the Press.
Our question is: If his principles are so unshakable, why hasn’t the Energy Secretary resigned already?
He “threatened” to do so in 2009 when the runway was first mooted. Why not do so now — instead of throwing teenage strops, avoiding both Ms Reeves’ speech and a potentially embarrassing Prime Minister’s Questions?
Unburdened of his terrifying quasi-religious delusions, Britain would become both more secure and far more likely to achieve growth and prosperity.
And Red Ed, for once, would have The Sun’s warm and unqualified support.
Rich pickings
THE staggering new demands from the militant BMA doctors’ union were grimly predictable, though apparently not to Labour.
When the Government handed them a 22 per cent pay rise, did it imagine it had ended the strikes? That the Marxist brothers would consider that job done?
The BMA just sees Labour as an easy mark — and wants much more. Like the power to approve strikes indefinitely, scrapping the need for a new ballot every six months. Plus the right for GPs and even medical students to walk out.
It wants this enshrined in Labour’s workers’ rights overhaul — and for good measure has declared the junior doctors in dispute with the Government again.
Labour’s naive surrender to the unions is a disastrous brake on growth.
Caving in on this too would be a mortal blow to the NHS, allowing young Scargill tribute acts to hold it to ransom on a whim.
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