Drug Addicts Awards Scandalous, Says Newton
East Belfast DUP Councillor Chairman Belfast District Policing Partnership Robin Newton has described the Home Secretary’s financial awards to drug addicts who were weaned off heroin by the “cold turkey” method as outrageous.
Robin Newton said, "The tough guy image of John Reid has been completely blown apart and he has been shown up as being long on words but short on action. In giving in to criminals who claimed their human rights had been abused by the refusal to provide them with illegal drugs in prison demonstrates how far down the road to community madness society has travelled.
"The jailbirds claimed that under the European Convention of Human Rights their rights had been abused. The Home Secretary with all the legal advice available to him can only have been persuaded to throw in the towel or face humiliation in the courts. No doubt the fear of today’s liberal minded judiciary played a significant part in the decision not to test the case in the courts.
"The law abiding people of Northern Ireland have been shocked by crazy legal decisions when fanatical terrorists, or their relatives, have been granted recompense when they were or injured as they went about their evil deeds. However, it now seems that every villain put behind bars can claim more human rights that the innocent victims.
"There can be no more reasons to abolish this overly tolerant legalisation than the insults it heaps on the victims who hear the mocking sniggers of the criminal addicts as they laugh all the way to the bank."
