for his 27 year 'lodgings'?
Aye...the press will run with 'But he was a bit of a fibber by all accounts & owned up to several other crimes including murder(s), what were the Police supposed to do?' line until the cows come home. Does this mean before the police 'who didn't know what to do' - unlike the police in Birmingham and Guildford a few years earlier to certain (level-headed) Irish personnel - could have got in touch with psychiatrists and put him under observation rather than rushing him off to court, presuming they had 'got a result'. Was that not the problem with the police during the 70's and 80's - if the con they had in front of them said 'yea...it was me' - either by force or not, then it was a quick progression through the courts?
He should have had help in 1982...but hey - in the sweet rose-glasses period of time gone by - even hospitals were too keen to treat such people.
Sorry - excuse my writing. "...even hospitals were NOT that keen to treat such people."
Aye...the press will run with 'But he was a bit of a fibber by all accounts & owned up to several other crimes including murder(s), what were the Police supposed to do?' line until the cows come home. Does this mean before the police 'who didn't know what to do' - unlike the police in Birmingham and Guildford a few years earlier to certain (level-headed) Irish personnel - could have got in touch with psychiatrists and put him under observation rather than rushing him off to court, presuming they had 'got a result'. Was that not the problem with the police during the 70's and 80's - if the con they had in front of them said 'yea...it was me' - either by force or not, then it was a quick progression through the courts?
He should have had help in 1982...but hey - in the sweet rose-glasses period of time gone by - even hospitals were too keen to treat such people.
Sorry - excuse my writing. "...even hospitals were NOT that keen to treat such people."