How appropriate that British MP’s are having to consider debating the re-introduction of the death penalty at this time. Jason Barker Owen was spirited out of prison yesterday, undercover to protect him of course, after serving just 24 months of a six year sentence for his involvement in the torture and killing of 17 month old Peter Connelly almost four years ago.

Having been clothed, fed and watered for the past two years he will be housed in approved accommodation, paid benefits out of our taxes and supposedly monitored. Has this creature been rehabilitated…? I very much doubt it – once a child killer always a child killer. Has he been punished…? no way. Two years – twenty-four months – 104 weeks…for the horrific abuse and death that little Peter Connelly suffered and at the same time a young yob has just received a sentence of sixteen months in prison for urinating on a war memorial.

Why does British justice let so many of our children down?

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Consider this:

a) The former head of Haringey Council’s children’s services department, Sharon Shoesmith, made the decision NOT to remove 17 month old Peter Connelly from his abusive and dangerous home. He was eventually found dead in his cot with over 70 injuries to his tiny body including a broken back, missing teeth and torn out fingernails.

b) A doctor saw him one week prior to his death and dismissed him simply as a ‘cranky, unco-operative patient’. Baby Peter was dead within five days with injuries on his body several weeks and months old.

c) Social workers paid over 60 visits to the house where baby Peter lived and yet noticed nothing despite the filthy, squalid conditions he was living in and the sadistic thug who was living in the house with his mother. They noticed nothing amiss when they saw him three days before his death…tied into a stroller with a broken spine.

d) Tracey Connelly, Stephen Barker and Jason Owen-Barker – the trio who tortured, abused and killed 17 month old Peter Connelly, escape murder convictions and instead are convicted of ‘allowing the death of a child’.

Outcomes…

a) Sharon Shoesmith doggedly fought her sacking after baby Peter’s death – she is about to be awarded £1million in compensation for ‘wrongful dismissal’ even though her department, under her leadership, failed at every given opportunity to save the life of baby Peter. Will £1million buy her a good night’s sleep…?

b) The doctor who saw baby Peter a week before his death and failed to examine him correctly – thus missing the chance to notice his broken back and other injuries – has been recently reinstated to resume practising medicine in the NHS. For Dr Jerome Ikwueke it is business as usual.

c) The social workers whose repeated visits to the cesspit of a home in which baby Peter lived and suffered and resulted in nothing being done to help him, have been reinstated and still maintain their jobs today.

d) Jason Owen-Barker is due to be released from prison after just three years. Baby Peter’s mother, Tracey Connelly, is due for release from prison within 12 months having served less than four years in prison. Stephen Barker – who delivered the violent blow which killed baby Peter – still remains in prison. There is a price on his head but is kept well protected at great cost to the British taxpayer.

The victim of the appalling actions of all the above adults, 17 month old Peter Connelly, remains dead to this day. No second chances for him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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