Zara, latest victim of a broken system

FROM time to time I note that the liberal elite in this country likes to use our state, and our nation, as a sort of international rescue outfit. They interfere clumsily in other lands, usually doing far more harm than good.

They fling our borders wide open to the world in the name of compassion – though few of them have any personal knowledge of the problems this brings to the poor who already live here.

But they have no interest at all in protecting the British people. They have disarmed criminal justice and more or less dissolved the police.

See what happens as a result: last week we were given details of the murder of Zara Aleena, a lovely young woman full of hope. She was stamped and strangled to death in an East London street. Her broken body was found to have 46 separate injuries.

Part of the obscene attack was recorded by CCTV cameras, our pathetic substitute for a police presence, never more pathetic than on this occasion. Cameras also recorded the killer stalking and terrorising three other women on the same night.

That killer is a 29-year-old habitual criminal. He had 28 convictions for 60 offences at the time of the murder. He should have been in prison at the time, too. But, like so many criminals, he had been quite absurdly released early on licence.

He was freed on June 17, nine days before he destroyed Zara Aleena. After failing to turn up for probation appointments, he was recalled to prison. Police were told of this on June 24, two days before the crime. But they somehow did not find him until after he had murdered Zara.

I cannot begin to imagine what I would feel or say about this lax stupidity, if I were related to Zara. Her killer had been prowling the streets before his crime. He was even thrown out of a pub for making advances to a female member of staff. But this did not attract the attention of the police, presumably because they were absent or whizzing uselessly about in cars. As usual.