Price's pardon is lost along with 'standard' procedures

national | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Tuesday February 28, 2012 11:12 by Indyjourno

Eamonn McCann in todays Belfast telegraph writes about the 'losing' of Marian Prices pardon

In olden days, a politician knocking a judge was something shocking. Now, heaven knows, anything goes. In Northern Ireland, anyway.

Here, former Secretary of State Peter Hain gets to tell a judge who delivered a verdict he disapproved of that he's "off his rocker", while current incumbent, Owen Paterson, orders someone into prison because he reckons we'd all be better off with her out of the way. At least that's how it seems.

Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/ea...sBDfo

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