The Sunday Post (Inverness)

John’s quips weregreat

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Threats of violence broke out between the residents and those putting up the flowers.

The police, incredibly, sided with those putting up the flowers.

Something is clearly not right when people are being allowed to intimidate anyone who goes near their ridiculous memorial.

Vincent was a career criminal who didn’t give a damn about his victims.

Yes, it’s sad that he was accidently killed.

But outside his immediate family, I doubt anyone will mourn his passing.

The graveyard is the rightful place for those awful pop-up shrines, not directly across the road from his victims.

The law-abiding Mr and Mrs Brooks should be afforded natural justice, they should feel protected and allowed to live in peace and without fear.

And that should go for all decent people

As it was, there were nearly 60,000 attempted burglary and break-ins across the UK last year, with many of them involving violence and the use of weapons.

Is it too much to ask that when you have been violated in such a terrifying manner that it’s the criminals and those who support them that feel the full force of the law, not the victims?

No, it is not, and that the use of force, excessive or otherwise while defending your family, possession­s or property, should never be treated as a crime.

That should a basic right. RIP, Partick Thistle legend John Lambie, who passed away this week.

As a pigeon-fancying, cigar-smoking, sheepskin coat-wearing manager, he was never a man to mince his four-letter words. He will be remembered for single-handedly saving the club from the abyss in the late ’90s and his hilarious quotes. His best being when a physio told him striker Colin Mcglashan was concussed during a game and didn’t know who he was. John barked: “Tell him he’s Pele and get him back on.”

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Lambie: Jags legend

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