Continuing on from my previous post, Sarah Everard – Getting In On The Act……..
I have for some weeks now been following a murder trial that has been taking place in Devon. Although I first became aware of the case about a year ago, it has taken until now for the legal process to reach its end, and I wanted to wait for that rather foregone before writing about it. As luck would have it, it turns out to be particularly timely.
The case has several similarities to the currently fashionable cause célèbre; a young woman was murdered by a stranger, her body dismembered, disfigured and scattered about the surrounding countryside. By now you are undoubtedly wondering why this dreadful case has received so little publicity, why poor Lorraine’s portrait has not been plastered daily about the national media, and why there are no vigils being held to provide a convenient pretext for attacking the police, and why no peer has called for curfews for people belonging to the same section of society as the murderer.
There is, of course, absolutely no truth to the scandalous rumour being put about that the fact that the murderer is an Iraqi failed asylum-seeker has anything to do with the inequitable treatment of the two murders.