Micheal Gove Slams 'Outdated' British Justice System Micheal Gove Slams 'Outdated' British Justice System Micheal Gove Slams 'Outdated' British Justice System Justice Minister Michael Gove answers questions about the British justice system. He talks about the responsibility lying with him, his benign relationship with lawyers Michael Gove is right, British justice HAS lost the plot says RICK CRESSMAN, who's just seen his brother's murderer freed from jail My daughter Lauren’s wedding this year was wonderful, one of the most special days in her life and mine. But it was tinged with sadness. For Lauren’s adored Uncle Tommy, my brother, was not there. He had been murdered by his so-called lover, a woman named Jane Andrews. She attacked him with a cricket bat as he lay sleeping and then stabbed him through the heart. Since that horrific day in September 2000, I have become convinced that the British justice system fails constantly in its duty to the victims of crime and their families. I also believe that all perspective about serious crime has been lost, as murder becomes trivialised and petty offences are treated with foolish severity. Unforgivable That’s why I was so pleased yesterday to read the Justice Secretary Michael Gove’s declaration that our legal system — riddled with delays and inefficiencies — needs urgent reform. He admitted that the people most badly let down by the system ‘are those who must take part in it through no fault of their own — victims and witnesses of crime, and children who have been neglected’. The human cost, he said, was ‘unforgivable’. I pray that Mr Gove has the willpower to see his mission through successfully. For me, my heartbroken 87-year-old mother, my sister, our children, our grand- children, and for millions like us, nothing is more important than justice reform. My brother’s absence has been bitterly felt at every major family event since his murder — for instance, when my grandchildren were born. Tommy would have treasured the role of great-uncle and the children would have loved him to bits. We made a place for his memory at Lauren’s wedding, with a special moment of remembrance. But he should have been there, and the fact that he wasn’t will always hurt our family. By a cruel irony, his killer was released from prison last Friday. The Parole Board decided that Jane Andrews — who worked as an aide to Sarah, Duchess of York, during the Nineties — had been fully rehabilitated. According to the men and women who decide these things, Andrews should be allowed back into society on licence. She has spe Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3138378/Michael-Gove-right-British-justice-lost-plot-says-RICK-CRESSMAN-s-just-seen-brsn Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

• published: 25 Jun 2015
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