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Ben
Lecturing
About Me
- prisonerben
- United Kingdom
- Previously known as "one of Britain's best known prisoners...he constantly questions authority and exposes the futility of the system" The Times, Ben was finally released from prison after 32 years in August 2012. Pleading guilty to the murder of a friend when he was 14 years old, he renounced violence and fought for the recognition of the inherent dignity of all human beings. As a result of speaking truth to power, he served far longer than the recommended 10 years, leading Education Secretary Michael Gove to argue that he had "been punished excessively for a crime committed as a child". One of the more intellectual of prisoner-campaigners, Ben chose to educate himself from schoolboy level to having both undergraduate and post graduate degrees. He is currently one of very few prisoners in Britain ever to attempt a Doctorate. Ben's speciality is non-violent action and the Human Needs Theory. Now on Life Licence, He is forging a career as a CJ policy consultant, writer and - as ever - campaigner.
Good work Ben, I was genuinely impressed.
ReplyDeleteBravo! The ex-cop seemed to come straight out of Central Casting, possibly from an old episode of "The Sweeney"! :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm gobsmacked this cop was put in charge of people on the witness protection programme. Given we know from the Leveson Inquiry (Brian Paddick's evidence) that certain people's protected identities were compromised (including the identity of Jon Venables's co-defendant), I think putting your faith in the Met as a protected witness is like trusting Bernie Madoff to protect your retirement fund.
ReplyDeleteWell done Ben. I have had to live under an assumed identity for 7 years (not for committing a crime, for 'informing'. it is hard to cope with a new ID living in a different part of the UK from loved ones. Whilst JV committed some horrific crimes, he has the right to be protected from vigilante mobs just as we have the right to deny him his liberty if he re-offends.
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