Easy to show remorse after you’re caught (From Your Local Guardian)

Easy to show remorse after you’re caught

4:05pm Tuesday 17th February 2009

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Sir – What is ludicrous about Gerrah Selby’s sentence for being part of the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty “urban terrorism” group is that, although having been an adult for two years, she is to spend her prison sentence in a young offenders’ institute.

Also she is likely to serve only two of those four years inside, where she will not be able to help terrorise innocent members of the public because they do things she does not like.

Fellow Shac member Debbie Vincent claims “this is her first offence”. As for Selby getting a longer sentence for knife crime, “where people could actually kill someone,” has Vincent forgotten about the various arson and physical attacks Shac admits carrying out?

It is easy to show remorse once you are caught, perhaps because you have been caught.

As for the length of sentence having political overtones, everything Shac does is political. Maybe it has got a bit of its own back.

National service once used to be two years, and that made young people grow up and take responsibility for their own actions.

Perhaps when she comes out, Gerrah Selby will also have grown up and will see that being a “foot soldier in a terror group” was not the best way to start her second decade of life.

A R Pointer

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