[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by Tim Skellett

You still haven't shown at all how the Human Rights Act is to blame.

Here you go.........

Human Rights Act has 'helped rapists and murderers escape justice' for 10 years, says top detective

One of the country's top detectives yesterday launched a withering attack on the Human Rights Act and claimed it had helped murderers and rapists to escape justice.

Detective Chief Superintendent Chris Gregg said since its introduction in 1998 hardened criminals had effectively used the legislation to hide from the law.
He described its abuse as "callous, heartless and deeply offensive" and called for new measures to prevent it from continuing.

"As a police officer one of the most frustrating things is when killers, who have shown not one ounce of compassion for their fellow human beings, start trying to have the shield of human rights drawn around them,"

he said.

"For hardened criminals to try to use this legislation as protection causes terrible offence to the families of victims who have suffered appalling and cruel deaths at the hands of those who are quick to talk about human rights but were so swift to take away the human rights of others.

"We have got the balance wrong and the legislation needs modifying to remove the loopholes that presently exist. We have got to get some perspective and balance into it. We seem to have forgotten the victims.
"It is callous, heartless and deeply offensive."

Last month, fanatical cleric Abu Qatada, one of the world's most dangerous terror suspects, successfully fought extradition to Jordan where he is wanted on suspicion of plotting terrorist atrocities after his lawyers relied on the Human Rights Act.

The Appeal Court said that even though the Home Office had an agreement Qatada himself would not be harmed some of the evidence used against him may have been obtained by torture.

Qatada, described as Osama bin Laden's ambassador in Europe, has since been granted bail in the UK under a 22-hour curfew expected to cost the taxpayer ?500,000 a year.

Det Chief Supt Gregg, outgoing head of West Yorkshire Police's Homicide and Major Enquiry Team, spoke out on the eve of his retirement and said it was time the law was changed in favour of the victims.

His comments were last night welcomed by politicians and fellow police officers.
Tom McGhie, chairman of the West Yorkshire Police Federation, said:

"It seems we are more concerned with the rights of the minority. What is more important - the rights of the law-abiding majority or the rights of murderers?"

Conservative MP Philip Davies, for Shipley, West Yorkshire, has called for human rights legislation to be scrapped.

He said:

"Human rights legislation is fatally and fundamentally flawed and means police officers who are trying to keep the streets safe are doing so with one or two hands tied behind their back."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz0MZyljoUe