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Give us laws that the City (London finacial area) will respect and fear

category international | crime and justice | other press author Monday February 23, 2009 18:19author by Ken Macdonald - London Times, Febuary 23, 2009 Report this post to the editors

I put this up because I think it is a very significant statement from such a high profile person in such dodgy times. Student

'Our system for regulating markets and for prosecuting market crime is completely broken. If you mug someone in the street and you are caught, the chances are that you will go to prison. In recent years mugging someone out of their savings or their pension would probably earn you a yacht.

Forget the paranoiac paraphernalia of national databases, identity cards and all the other liberty-sapping addictions of the Home Office. Forget the rhetoric and do something useful. If the Government really wants to protect people beyond armoured-vest posturing, here is the opportunity.Do they really believe that an illiterate mother-of-five drug mule from a village in The Gambia should be serving five times the sentence of a millionaire City fraudster?

Sir Ken Macdonald, QC, is a member of Matrix Chambers and was Director of Public Prosecutions from 2003-08

Related Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5785889.ece

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   strange times....     Conor    Mon Feb 23, 2009 22:15 
   Connor     Arm-a-Gedden    Mon Feb 23, 2009 22:39 
   maybe...     Conor    Tue Feb 24, 2009 23:54 


 
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