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1:33pm Wednesday 10th March 2010 in
A killer who shot three police officers could be released from prison to live in Sussex this week.
Egon Von Bulow(COR) will be the first police murderer to be released from jail having been deemed safe to re-enter society by the independent Parole Board.
Von Bulow, known as the Jackboot Killer for his obsession with Nazis, was given three life sentences for shooting PC John Schofield to death in Caterham, Surrey, in July 1974 and wounding two other police officers.
Parole Board officials would not reveal whether Von Bulow will be housed in Sussex but said they always checked accommodation was secure before releasing life prisoners.
The move to release Von Bulow has been criticised by police unions.
Simon Reed, the vice-chairman of the Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, said: “It makes a complete mockery of our justice system.
“If the criminal justice system can consider releasing someone as vile, vicious and unrepentant as Von Bulow then they will consider releasing anyone.
“PC Schofield was brutally slain by this monster. Von Bulow was jailed for life three times over in 1975 and that should mean he spends the rest of his days behind bars.”
Police, probation and councils are likely to be informed of Von Bulow's release so that officials can keep an eye on serious violent offenders to protect members of the public from harm.
A spokesman for the Parole Board said: “A decision will be made about where a person goes after release but that will often be back to the area where they have roots.
“We would expect them to be in some sort of supervised accommodation and meeting regularly with an offender manager.”
A spokeswoman for the Probation Service said: “All life sentence prisoners are subject to probation supervision on release from prison.
They will have to adhere to a set of strict conditions and are subject to recall to custody for the rest of their lives if their behaviour indicates that it is no longer safe to allow them to remain in the community.”
Comments(20)
scthetruth
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2:00pm Wed 10 Mar 10
Tetsugaku-San
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2:07pm Wed 10 Mar 10
scthetruth
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2:11pm Wed 10 Mar 10
scthetruth
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2:20pm Wed 10 Mar 10
Tetsugaku-San wrote:What an ignorant statement to make about newspapers! What has any newspaper got to do with this apart from The Argus who are reporting it?
@scthetruth this is the Argus, not the Daily Mail - do calm down with the knee jerk reactions. What good would executing him do exactly? Would it bring the dead back to life? no. Would it stop other people committing crimes? Ah not that either so..... why exactly?
Tammy Flugh
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2:36pm Wed 10 Mar 10
scthetruth wrote:To be exact, he only murdered one policeman. Not from want of trying though. The other two survived.
Three life sentances for murdering three human beings. That should really be 300 years ie NEVER TO BE RELEASED.
Instead what we have is a judical system that allows scum like him to walk free again within his lifetime. Not only should he be executed but we should also hang the judges and their associates who put the ordinary lives of decent people at risk daily because they keep releasing these murderers, peadophiles and rapists. They think they know better but they are not fit for office.
Tetsugaku-San
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3:21pm Wed 10 Mar 10
scthetruth wrote:What has it got to do with newspapers? Well you sound like a typical ignorant, daily mail reader that's what it's got to do with it.
Tetsugaku-San wrote:What an ignorant statement to make about newspapers! What has any newspaper got to do with this apart from The Argus who are reporting it?
@scthetruth this is the Argus, not the Daily Mail - do calm down with the knee jerk reactions. What good would executing him do exactly? Would it bring the dead back to life? no. Would it stop other people committing crimes? Ah not that either so..... why exactly?
This is certainly no knee jerk reaction. What if a family member of yours was murdered or raped? Would you be happy knowing they would be free again some day?
Justice for the victim/s in Great Britain 2010 means very little and those who defend it are out of synch with the majority of Britons I'm sure of that.
davyboy
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4:43pm Wed 10 Mar 10
yorkie44
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4:51pm Wed 10 Mar 10
UglyAmerican
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5:26pm Wed 10 Mar 10
Tetsugaku-San
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6:41pm Wed 10 Mar 10
Tetsugaku-San
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6:41pm Wed 10 Mar 10
Big Nasty
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6:56pm Wed 10 Mar 10
Tetsugaku-San wrote:At least if this excuse for a human being was executed he would never be able to harm anyone else!, no it wouldn't bring back the dead but as I said before, as sure as eggs are eggs he wouldn't kill anyone else!!!!!.
@scthetruth this is the Argus, not the Daily Mail - do calm down with the knee jerk reactions.
What good would executing him do exactly? Would it bring the dead back to life? no. Would it stop other people committing crimes? Ah not that either so..... why exactly?
bosshog
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7:04pm Wed 10 Mar 10
scthetruth
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8:09pm Wed 10 Mar 10
Tetsugaku-San wrote:I do not read newspapers. I look at the facts and draw my own conclusions.
scthetruth wrote:What has it got to do with newspapers? Well you sound like a typical ignorant, daily mail reader that's what it's got to do with it.
Tetsugaku-San wrote:What an ignorant statement to make about newspapers! What has any newspaper got to do with this apart from The Argus who are reporting it?
@scthetruth this is the Argus, not the Daily Mail - do calm down with the knee jerk reactions. What good would executing him do exactly? Would it bring the dead back to life? no. Would it stop other people committing crimes? Ah not that either so..... why exactly?
This is certainly no knee jerk reaction. What if a family member of yours was murdered or raped? Would you be happy knowing they would be free again some day?
Justice for the victim/s in Great Britain 2010 means very little and those who defend it are out of synch with the majority of Britons I'm sure of that.
And yes - I *would* be happy if someone who murdered or raped a family member of mine was released from jail after doing the sentence he was awarded, that's because I believe in 'Justice' not 'Revenge' there is a difference.
stan bailey
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9:39pm Wed 10 Mar 10
UglyAmerican wrote:What would happen to him if he committed the crime in the USA?
So, er, life equals ~12 years then?
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I thought we were doing better than that.
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But hey, at least he's been rehabilitated, right?
brighton123
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11:56pm Wed 10 Mar 10
scthetruth wrote:Absolutely brilliant post.
Tetsugaku-San wrote:I do not read newspapers. I look at the facts and draw my own conclusions.
scthetruth wrote:What has it got to do with newspapers? Well you sound like a typical ignorant, daily mail reader that's what it's got to do with it.
Tetsugaku-San wrote:What an ignorant statement to make about newspapers! What has any newspaper got to do with this apart from The Argus who are reporting it?
@scthetruth this is the Argus, not the Daily Mail - do calm down with the knee jerk reactions. What good would executing him do exactly? Would it bring the dead back to life? no. Would it stop other people committing crimes? Ah not that either so..... why exactly?
This is certainly no knee jerk reaction. What if a family member of yours was murdered or raped? Would you be happy knowing they would be free again some day?
Justice for the victim/s in Great Britain 2010 means very little and those who defend it are out of synch with the majority of Britons I'm sure of that.
And yes - I *would* be happy if someone who murdered or raped a family member of mine was released from jail after doing the sentence he was awarded, that's because I believe in 'Justice' not 'Revenge' there is a difference.
But as on the subject you sound like a PIG arrogant Guardian, BBC, Labour Party/LD lackey. You know the type of socialist garbage that Great Britain has had to put up with over the last 13 years. Part of the miserable rabble that have tried to drag the country through horse manure an infinite number of ways.
Look at his quote people!........
"And yes - I *would* be happy if someone who murdered or raped a family member of mine was released from jail after doing the sentence he was awarded"
Would you indeed. No one here will believe that. Not in a month of Sundays!
Tetsugaku-San
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10:05am Thu 11 Mar 10
stan bailey wrote:Yeah you're right, they lock people up for life and just look how little crime they have!
UglyAmerican wrote:What would happen to him if he committed the crime in the USA?
So, er, life equals ~12 years then?
>
I thought we were doing better than that.
.
But hey, at least he's been rehabilitated, right?
Tetsugaku-San
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10:10am Thu 11 Mar 10
scthetruth wrote:Well I'm really not too fussed what you believe, nor does anyone else care about your impotent stutterings on the internets. However, yes I am Liberal, and I am a proud wooly liberal, bite me :)
Tetsugaku-San wrote:I do not read newspapers. I look at the facts and draw my own conclusions.
scthetruth wrote:What has it got to do with newspapers? Well you sound like a typical ignorant, daily mail reader that's what it's got to do with it.
Tetsugaku-San wrote:What an ignorant statement to make about newspapers! What has any newspaper got to do with this apart from The Argus who are reporting it?
@scthetruth this is the Argus, not the Daily Mail - do calm down with the knee jerk reactions. What good would executing him do exactly? Would it bring the dead back to life? no. Would it stop other people committing crimes? Ah not that either so..... why exactly?
This is certainly no knee jerk reaction. What if a family member of yours was murdered or raped? Would you be happy knowing they would be free again some day?
Justice for the victim/s in Great Britain 2010 means very little and those who defend it are out of synch with the majority of Britons I'm sure of that.
And yes - I *would* be happy if someone who murdered or raped a family member of mine was released from jail after doing the sentence he was awarded, that's because I believe in 'Justice' not 'Revenge' there is a difference.
But as on the subject you sound like a PIG arrogant Guardian, BBC, Labour Party/LD lackey. You know the type of socialist garbage that Great Britain has had to put up with over the last 13 years. Part of the miserable rabble that have tried to drag the country through horse manure an infinite number of ways.
Look at his quote people!........
"And yes - I *would* be happy if someone who murdered or raped a family member of mine was released from jail after doing the sentence he was awarded"
Would you indeed. No one here will believe that. Not in a month of Sundays!
Tetsugaku-San
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10:17am Thu 11 Mar 10
brighton123 wrote:Brilliant? Why is the post so brilliant exactly? Because it has any verifiable facts in it or because it falls within "things that brighton123 likes"?
scthetruth wrote:Absolutely brilliant post.
Tetsugaku-San wrote:I do not read newspapers. I look at the facts and draw my own conclusions.
scthetruth wrote:What has it got to do with newspapers? Well you sound like a typical ignorant, daily mail reader that's what it's got to do with it.
Tetsugaku-San wrote:What an ignorant statement to make about newspapers! What has any newspaper got to do with this apart from The Argus who are reporting it?
@scthetruth this is the Argus, not the Daily Mail - do calm down with the knee jerk reactions. What good would executing him do exactly? Would it bring the dead back to life? no. Would it stop other people committing crimes? Ah not that either so..... why exactly?
This is certainly no knee jerk reaction. What if a family member of yours was murdered or raped? Would you be happy knowing they would be free again some day?
Justice for the victim/s in Great Britain 2010 means very little and those who defend it are out of synch with the majority of Britons I'm sure of that.
And yes - I *would* be happy if someone who murdered or raped a family member of mine was released from jail after doing the sentence he was awarded, that's because I believe in 'Justice' not 'Revenge' there is a difference.
But as on the subject you sound like a PIG arrogant Guardian, BBC, Labour Party/LD lackey. You know the type of socialist garbage that Great Britain has had to put up with over the last 13 years. Part of the miserable rabble that have tried to drag the country through horse manure an infinite number of ways.
Look at his quote people!........
"And yes - I *would* be happy if someone who murdered or raped a family member of mine was released from jail after doing the sentence he was awarded"
Would you indeed. No one here will believe that. Not in a month of Sundays!
I was just about to make a post myself about this subject before I saw yours, but what the heck I'm going to do it anyway.
Tetsugaku-San. One question i would like to ask you is?
1. Would you be happy, like you said if he was released early like many recent governmental early release cases?
The reason i ask this question is you said "sentence he was awarded". Just wanted to know as many cases lately people haven't faced the full sentence awarded.
Tetsugaku-San, additonally why does any newspaper have to do with your argument. If people dont agree with you doesn't mean they read a specific newspaper. This is the irony of you calling Daily Mail ignorant. The saying people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones comes to mind. I see it all the time as a student, all the left wing students always having pops at newspapers other than the Guardian and The Independent. Its strange this argument to me as they're as bias as any other newspaper out there. You probably dont remember the Guardian for being done for being to pro-Palestine biased. Therefore, I just find it amazing how a lot of people turn their nose up at other peoples papers, when they should really look at their own, especially the left proclaiming that you are ignorant for reading a paper.
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Skippah says...
1:37pm Wed 10 Mar 10