Religion and Ethics Forum

General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on August 18, 2020, 06:24:09 PM

Title: 'PC Andrew Harper: Widow Lissie Harper 'wants real justice''
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 18, 2020, 06:24:09 PM

Tragic case but I don't see why we would treat the deaths of emergency workers differently.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-53809439

Title: Re: 'PC Andrew Harper: Widow Lissie Harper 'wants real justice''
Post by: Roses on August 18, 2020, 06:33:19 PM

I don't either. If a crime has been committed it should be treated in the same way if you are an ordinary member of the public, or a member of the emergency services.

Title: Re: 'PC Andrew Harper: Widow Lissie Harper 'wants real justice''
Post by: Harrowby Hall on August 18, 2020, 07:26:11 PM

We have commented on PC Harper's killers' trial elsewhere and I think that we felt that - under the circumstances - the result was appropriate. It was not possible to fully establish that a murder had been committed but the judge gave sentences that were very severe for manslaughter.

Mrs Harper's grief must be overwhelming. Her life has been torn apart and their little child has been deprived of a father.

But in what way was justice "not real"? Justice is a process not an outcome and it seems to me that the process of the recent trial was entirely proper. She is greatly aggrieved but the offence that was committed was an offence against all of us not just her. And that was the basis for the trial.