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The Sun
23-05-2025
- Politics
- The Sun
Setting sex offenders free with sultana-sized scrotums won't solve anything – here's what will
THE Labourite's Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, was brought up for a time in Saudi Arabia. And it seems to have shaped her. Because this week, she announced that paedophiles should be chemically castrated. 5 Yup. Nonces must be made to drink chemicals in such vast quantities that their scrotum becomes the size of a sultana. And I've been struggling to understand why a Starmerite would say such a thing. I now think I have an answer. As we know, jail sentences these days are a joke. You rampage through a packed shopping centre with a sword, are sentenced by the judge to do 15 minutes in the nick, and because prisons are so overcrowded these days, they release you before you've even had a chance to unpack your suitcase. Burglars, vicious thugs, drug smugglers. They go to prison in the morning, have some pleasant sex with their attractive warden, enjoy a slap-up lunch and are home in time for tea. And then, that night, they break into your house and steal your television. This kind of thing doesn't go down well with the electorate. But what if Ms Mahmood was able to argue that she's releasing them because they are no longer able to commit their dastardly crimes? What if she's able to say that the nonce is safe to walk the streets because with no testicles, he has the same sexual urges as a tennis racquet. She's even alluded to this, saying that sex offenders could only be released from prison on the condition that the state reduces their testosterone levels to a point where they'd rather cheese grate their own face than have sex. Those weren't her actual words, but it's what she meant. So what's next? Shall we cut off the hands of those who've been convicted of shoplifting? Run over people who've been caught speeding? Surgically implant a blade in the bottoms of those who've been done for a knife crime? Paedos WANT to be castrated to banish sick 'desires', reform tsar says - as crackdown rolled out in 20 UK jails And what of those idiots who cut down the tree in Sycamore Gap? What does Ms Mahmood reckon we should do with them? Chainsaw them off at the shins? Maybe that's what Ms Mahmood has in mind. Because if she does this, it solves the problem of prison overcrowding at a stroke. People will be rehabilitated in no time at all. The problem I have with this argument is that I don't see prison as a place of rehabilitation. I see it as a place where you go to be punished for the crime you've committed. And as I believe the state does not have the right to vandalise human beings, no matter what they've done, my solution to prison overcrowding is different. Build more prisons. EMOJI WORLD RULES Two-wheel transport for a slow news day 5 I WAS greatly amused to hear this week that a BBC correspondent's bicycle has been stolen in Amsterdam. It was no ordinary bike. Because Anna Holligan had turned it into a mobile outside broadcasting studio, fitting it with solar panels and brackets for lights and cameras. It looked ridiculous. Like the back end of a bicycle had been welded to a wheelbarrow full of scrap. What made me laugh though is that Ms Holligan, above with her bike, said that when she arrives at a breaking news story on it, people feel more comfortable with her as a journalist. Really? I only ask because if you want to cover a breaking news story, surely you're better off using a car. If you go there on a bike, especially one that looks like it weighs about three tons, you won't get there until the story you're trying to cover has become about as topical as the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii. GAME OF GIVE & TAKE I DON'T understand a lot of what goes on in Sir Starmer's well- moisturised head. And this week, he was more unfathomable than ever. 5 Because he has given away the Chagos Islands, which are ours, to Mauritius. And we will pay them £101million a year, for 99 years, for us to use the military base there. It could be argued, I suppose, that it's silly for us to govern a few specks of land that are thousands of miles away. But they're not exactly close to Mauritius either. It gets worse. Because we will only be allowed to use the strategically vital base if the government of Mauritius gives us permission. Which seems unlikely because, like most of the smaller countries in the world these days, Mauritius can't even build a park bench without permission from their paymasters in China. So why's he done this? Why give away sovereign British territory to a foreign power that's not necessarily friendly? And what's next? Is he going to give the Isle of Wight to North Korea? Or the Shetland Islands to Donald Trump? If he is in the mood for this kind of thing and plainly he is, maybe he'd like to give Anglesey to me. I'd even let him continue to use the lighthouse there for the very reasonable sum of just £200million a year.
Times
22-05-2025
- Health
- Times
Doctors ‘will refuse to carry out mandatory chemical castration'
Doctors would refuse to carry out mandatory chemical castration, a leading psychiatrist has said after a minister suggested sex offenders could be sectioned in order to administer the drugs. Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, claimed chemical suppression for sex offenders could have a 'big and positive impact' and said she was exploring whether to make the drugs mandatory for paedophiles. Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, dismissed her announcement as a 'gimmick' designed to distract from radical sentencing reforms that will allow most prisoners to be released after serving only a third of their sentence, and serious criminals — including rapists and killers — to be freed after half their sentence. He said that the proposals were a 'recipe for a crime wave' and
Telegraph
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
This shameful plan to cut prison sentences must not pass
As the 9/11 terrorist attack unfolded a Labour aide sent a memo around Government suggesting that it was a 'good day to get out anything we want to bury'. 'Councillors expenses?', she suggested. The Blairites are back in charge and channelling the same approach to Government communications. Yesterday the Government tried to bury their sentencing reforms under the spectre of high net migration figures, growing borrowing costs and the Chagos surrender deal, hoping the busy news day would avert attention. No 10 even went to the lengths of deploying a dead cat story that they will mandate the chemical castration of paedophiles. Pigs will fly before Starmer faces down his friends in the human rights lobby and forces these sick individuals to confront their actions. Under the plans the Justice Secretary announced yesterday there will be a presumption against short prison sentences of 12 month or less. To give a snapshot of the numbers that involves: in 2023 there were over 4,000 thieves, 3,000 thugs done for assault, and 1,000 burglars that were handed sentences that fall below the cut off. Those facing longer sentences – for offences like drug dealing, child abuse and arson – will be able to be eligible for release after serving just a third of their sentence if they behave well in prison. In fact, it gets worse. Criminals who plead guilty – and most do – already get a one third reduction in their sentence. So, under Shabana Mahmoood's new sentencing framework, a paedophile who pleads guilty to an eighteen-month headline term would spend just one fifth of that term in jail. That's a discount so big it'd make Aldi and Lidl blush. The public are already hacked off that criminals are serving half of their sentence – this change would see the whole system descend into farce. Instead the Justice Secretary said – with a straight face, may I add – that offenders will be placed in 'prisons outside of prisons' on tags. Words that lead most people in this country to conclude the Lord Chancellor has lost her marbles. Tags aren't iron bars: they can't stop a shop being ransacked again and again. If you just get a tag, why on earth would you think twice about doing it again? This is a recipe for a crime wave and a licence for hardened criminals to terrorise communities with impunity. Facing down Labour MPs in the House of Commons chamber yesterday, it was as if they thought the criminals were the real victims in need of our support (and taxpayer money) – not punishment. Starmer insists he has no choice but to give prisoners a get out of jail free card. But he does. The day he elevated James Timpson to the Lords – a man who said two-third of prisoners shouldn't be in jail – and appointed him as a Justice Minister, he revealed his aversion to prison. What Starmer is doing isn't practical – it's ideological. The Ministry of Justice forecast that they need 9,500 extra prisons spaces by 2028. Well, there are 10,800 foreign national offenders clogging up our prisons. That's one in every eight cells. And there are 17,800 people on remand, in prison, awaiting trial. In three years time that number could rise to as many as 23,600. Meanwhile, when I visited the Central Criminal Court last month, 40 per cent of the courts sat empty. The practical solution would be to introduce emergency legislation to disapply the Human Rights Act to deport these foreign criminals. Visa sanctions should be imposed on every country that refuses to take back their nationals that have harmed our citizens. Courts should be sitting around the clock to clear the backlog of cases backing up into our prisons. If Labour were serious they would commit to building more than the meagre 250 rapid deployment cells they are planning to build this year. Or strike a deal with one of the 13 European countries with spare prison capacity, as Denmark is doing with Kosovo. But instead of straining every sinew, they are reaching for the comforting option of freeing criminals. Ironically, the Justice Secretary claims her reforms are based on the Texan system. It's no such thing. The Texas system has cut crime and reoffending by having an incarceration rate five times higher than ours. Between 1993 and 1996 they built nearly 75,000 prison cells. If they can, why can't we? I would be the first to admit that the last Government didn't build enough prisons. We were also too quick to decommission the old Victorian prisons when space was invaluable. Labour say we can't build out way out of this problem – I say we have no choice but to.
Daily Mail
22-05-2025
- Daily Mail
Country that chemically castrates paedophiles moves to ditch the policy for 'tougher option' - as Britain looks to implement the brutal punishment
As Britain looks to introduce chemical castration for paedophiles and other sex offenders, Khazakhstan is set to move away from the policy. Dozens of brutal child sex offenders have been forcibly injected in the ex-Soviet state in recent years. Among them is Saidolim Gayibnazarov, 48, who raped and killed five-year-old Erkezhan Nurmakhan, and was sentenced to chemical castration during his lengthy prison term. Another, Berik Zholdasov, was castrated after raping his eight-year-old stepdaughter. Tragically, he inflicted such serious injuries that doctors had to remove her womb. Zholdasov had threatened to kill her if she told her mother. A judge sentenced him to 25 years in a maximum security jail and ordered him to undergo 'forcible chemical castration'. Last year 11 paedophiles in a single region of Kazakhstan were sentenced to compulsory chemical castration. All the men 'committed crimes against the sexual inviolability of minors' in Kostanay region. Nurse Zoya Manaenko - in her 70s - was pictured conducting the procedure by injecting a paedophile convict in a Kazakhstan prison medical unit. But the country is now moving in a different direction to curb sex attacks on children in a way that the government believes will be more effective. Until now, critics say that many of those condemned to chemical castration were incarcerated and as such posed no immediate threat to children. New laws will instead enforce life-means-life sentences for men who rape or violently sexually attack children, as well as for killers of minors. Such moves will take paedophiles off the streets permanently, say proponents, which means there is no need to chemically castrate them. Currently, Kazakhstan publishes maps to highlight where paedophiles who were previously freed from jail now reside. In future, child sex attackers will not be freed. Kazakhstan MP Sekikhan Zhakupov, 40, convicted of sexually assaulting a seven-year-old boy, might have faced chemical castration but is now jailed for life and will not be allowed out, according to reports. Critics say that many of those condemned to chemical castration were incarcerated and as such posed no immediate threat to children Critics of the castration regime said that it depended on a medical diagnosis of paedophelia which was often not forthcoming in cases where family members were the predators. Others pointed to the need for constant top-up injections and unintended side-effects Kazakhstan MP Sekikhan Zhakupov, 40, convicted of sexually assaulting a seven-year-old boy, might have faced chemical castration but is now jailed for life and will not be allowed out, according to reports Critics of the castration regime said that it depended on a medical diagnosis of paedophelia which was often not forthcoming in specific cases, including where family members were the predators. Others said the need for constant top-up injections meant it was an ineffective solution, while some complained it resulted in unintended side-effects. Elnur Beisenbaev, an MP and executive secretary of the ruling Amanat Party, accused the government of being 'spineless' and pandering to paedophiles by failing to insist on 'surgical castration'. 'Unfortunately, [sex crimes against children] are happening more and more often,' he said, suggesting chemical castration - which lowers the male libido through injected anti-androgen drugs - was not as effective as initially thought. 'By letting a rapist go free, we allow them to reoffend,' he said. ''We don't suggest applying it to all paedophiles, but we'd like to give courts an option of having surgical castration. 'If a paedophile attack is especially cruel, I believe surgical castration must be applied…' President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev had demanded action against rising domestic violence and child abuse cases. The new laws are seen as a more effective means of combating paedophiles, with tougher sentences acting as a disincentive to would-be offenders.
The Sun
22-05-2025
- The Sun
My daughter April Jones was killed by paedophile – forget chemical castration, predators like him should have it cut off
The mum of murdered schoolgirl April Jones has backed the government's bid to chemically castrate paedophiles and rapists. Coral Jones, whose five-year-old daughter was kidnapped and murdered by sick paedophile Mark Bridger, said he and all other sex offenders should lose their right to a sexual urge. 5 5 5 Bridger was given a whole-life term for abducting and murdering April on October 1, 2012, in Machynlleth, mid Wales. The Judge said he sexually abused the schoolgirl before disposing of her body. But the paedophile has never confessed to his crime and the location of April's remains is still unknown. Here mum Coral gives her view on the government's latest proposals. By Coral Jones When April vanished almost 13 years ago my whole world was thrown upside down. I will never get over the heartache of losing my beautiful girl that day and when I later learned that sick paedophile Mark Bridger had kidnapped and murdered her, I was sick to my stomach. I cannot begin to describe the hatred I still have for him to this day. During sentencing trial judge Mr Justice Griffith-Williams told Bridger that there was no doubt in his mind that he was 'a paedophile, who has, for some time harboured sexual and morbid fantasies about young girls'. Police also found Bridger's laptop containing a library of vile sexual images of children. Chilling moment April Jones' 'fantasist' killer Mark Bridger lied to police during interrogation And for me vile paedophiles like him will never change. They will always fantasise about young children and harbour sickening sexual thoughts. The government's proposal to chemically castrate paedophiles and rapists like him, is something that has been on my mind for over a decade. I've said from word go that this should happen and I'm surprised it has taken so long. I would welcome any steps to chemically castrate offenders like Mark Bridger. To be honest, if I had it my way he should have it chopped off completely, but I can't see the justice secretary agreeing to that. Putting a paedophile or rapist's name on the sex offenders register is no longer enough of a deterrent - for too long we've turned a blind eye to it. Many sex offenders continue to reoffend, sometimes over and over again. Bridger won't ever see the light of day for what he did, but it keeps me awake at night that he still has sexual fantasties about my daughter and other children. It makes my body shiver, it makes me feel sick. All prisoners who have sexually abused children should have this sexual urge removed - that goes for men and women. If they've done the deed they should pay the price. They don't deserve to enjoy the same sexual urges as everyone else. The only question is how long does the procedure last? Is it permanent? Can its be reversed. All these things need to be addressed. In my book sex offenders should also be sterilised so they can't have their own children and continue the cycle of abuse. There will always be people who are against strong measures like this. They will cite human rights as the reason not to act - but until they have lost a child or seen a family member sexually abused, they will never truly understand why this is so important. Ever since April was taken from us I have campaigned for changes in the law. I have fought to introduce April's Law which would rid the internet of child abuse images. Easily accessibly vile online pictures are fuelling paedophiles' evil crimes and myself and others have demanded search engine firms should do much more to prevent people posting and accessing the shocking content. I'll never stop pushing for change and I welcome the latest proposals by the government. It's time we all took a stand. 5
