Bring back the death penalty

I read, with interest ‘White

Ribbon supporters call for action’ – Wokingham Today, December 2.

By far the best way for us to protect women from being killed by violent men, if not from lesser acts of violence, is to re-introduce Capital Punishment for murder.

Look at that repulsive creature, Wayne Couzens – daring to try to appeal his life sentence for the murder of Sarah Everard.

In bygone days, he would have been hung, drawn, and quartered. Now, he should have been lethally injected, put down like a mad dog.

Look at that repulsive creature, Colin Pitchfork. The Parole Board released him as no longer presenting a danger to girls.

He should have been lethally injected in the 1980s – after he murdered two girls.

I do not believe that, with the restoration of the Death Penalty a miscarriage of justice could never happen, but, with the accuracy of modern DNA testing, false convictions are very unlikely.

Child killers should also receive the lethal injection. Sadly, these continue, as with this latest case of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, because we have, unfortunately, continued to believe a myth. The myth is, that out there, are a body of experts, called social workers – who are a profession, and so know how to protect the vulnerable.

As decades of high-profile cases – Maria Colwell, Jasmine Beckford, Tyra Henry, Victoria Climbie,

Baby P, and now, Arthur LabinjoHughes, demonstrate, they are not a profession, they do not have expertise, and they do not know how to protect the vulnerable, so they should be abolished.

We now need to do what engineers do, when something isn’t working – go back to the drawing board.

To this very day, I have service users who expect mental health ‘professionals’ to sort out their mental health.

Their belief is, that just as a car mechanic sorts out your car, the dentist sorts out your teeth, and an electrician sorts out your lights, so, a mental health social worker, must be able to sort out your mental health.

Service users are indignant, and wish to complain, when this doesn’t happen. I advise them not to, because they won’t achieve anything, and will be wasting time and energy.

Thus I have advised a current service user: “We have obtained for your mentally ill partner, Enhanced Personal Independence Payment, and Carer’s Allowance, for you.

So follow your doctor’s instructions with regard to medication, and use your Benefits to pay for a private carer, and for private domestic help – in order to get the support that you both need, and so achieve a better quality of life.

“Alas, there is no magic wand, and no one else will sort your life out for you. You have to sort it out for yourself.”

Pam Jenkinson, The Wokingham Crisis House