A Sting in the Bail Bail Was Never Supposed to Be a 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card. But with 55,000 Crimes Committed Each Year by Accused On Bail, It's Beginning to Look That Way
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ITwas a crime that shocked the nation. The body of former history teacher Alan Wilson was found in the back garden of his house in the leafy Merchiston area of Edinburgh. His killer had strangled him with a curtain tie-back and had then dismembered the body and put the parts in bin bags to avoid being caught.
When Ian Sutherland, a former chef, was finally jailed for the murder, the awful truth emerged that he was only at large because he had been released on bail. Five months before he committed this brutal crime, he had been granted his freedom at the capital's sheriff court.See the full content of this document
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A Sting in the Bail Bail Was Never Supposed to Be a 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card. But with 55,000 Crimes Committed Each Year by Accused On Bail, It's Beginning to Look That Way
On Friday last week, the case of Simon Moore was heard at Paisley sheriff court. Moore, from Hackney, east London, groomed a 13-year- old from Johnstone in Renfrewshire on an internet homework chatroom. He travelled to Scotland to meet the girl, to have sex with her, and built a shelter for their meetings in the nearby Rannoch Woods. He threatened to kill her if she told her parents. It was disclosed during the trial that while he was on bail for this crime, the paedophile had begun to groom another teenager from Hull, using the same internet chatroom.
Although it could be argued that these cases are extreme examples, it is now becomin...See the full content of this document
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