Angel Lynn kidnapper’s derisory sentence is a mockery of justice
POOR Angel Lynn has been left serving a hellish life sentence needing 24/7 care — for dating a wicked, controlling thug.
He, meanwhile — with the girlfriend who stood up to him now profoundly brain-damaged — will walk free in just two years to begin again.
That is a mockery of justice.
Chay Bowskill relentlessly bullied, belittled and emotionally abused Angel and treated her as his property. He even imposed a curfew on her while he was in jail doing a previous stretch.
When she summoned the strength to dump him, he snatched her off the street and bundled her into a van from which she mysteriously then fell at 60mph.
Even if prosecutors could not pin her catastrophic injuries on Bowskill, his kidnapping of her led directly to them.
And kidnap can carry a life sentence. Why, then, is his so derisory?
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U-turn, PM
IS it mere obstinacy which prevents Boris Johnson scrapping the April tax rise — since it is so obviously a mistake and now without economic justification?
If so, PM, stubbornness does not show strength. A strong Government listens to voters. It changes tack if its argument falls away.
That means taking significant and urgent action to alleviate the cost of living — not to worsen it, as hiking National Insurance inevitably will.
Boris can justifiably claim its cancellation as a dividend of his Covid success.
Thanks to decisions he got right — the furlough, the early jabs and boosters, keeping England open for business — unemployment is far lower than forecast and tax receipts billions higher.
That’s why the budget now has room to swerve or delay the tax rise.
This is not lost on Lord Frost, who sets out opposite why he left Government:
That it was failing to capitalise on Brexit by cutting tax and regulation, investing heavily in neglected areas and avoiding “making everyday costs ever more expensive”.
By fulfilling the 2019 Tory manifesto, in other words.
We, along with scores of enraged backbenchers, couldn’t agree more.
Time to listen, PM.
Dick move
TO the dossier of Met Police disasters under Cressida Dick, we can now add her jackbooted intervention over Partygate.
Sensing potential Downing Street illegality, she should have backed off until civil servant Sue Gray published her full report.
Instead she buckled under pressure to act . . . and waded in.
Result: The report is in limbo as lawyers strike out anything that might prejudice the police probe.
And a censored version will only trigger months of frenzied speculation about what is missing.
It might serve Labour for No10 to be paralysed. It does not serve the country.
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This fiasco’s on you, Dame Cressida.
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