Comments by "" (@redtela) on "Government’s Early Prison Release Scheme: An Embarrassing Disaster?" video.

  1. Quite simply, in the original case, I don't know the underlying reason/motivation for the offender to hold a knife to his wife. For me to presume that is domestic abuse is exactly that, a presumption. I haven't read the case notes, and it's not discussed here. If it was related to domestic abuse, then the ordinary English meaning of the text implies he should not have been released early. But often, the law has a different interpretation. Can you conclusively state in that case, that there was a technical legality? If so, why wasn't that discussed in the video? What was the underlying motivation for the knife incident? For all I know, it could have been a case of him defending himself, things went to court, and because it was inside the privacy of their own home, with no witnesses around, the jury found in the wives favour. Yet further, supposing that she was in the marital home as he is being released, is there some reason that she hasn't applied for a non-mol order (or similar) to exclude him from the home? I'm sure many women are in exactly that situation, and I'm not belittling their cases at all... I simply can't speak ill of anyone, without actually knowing the facts.
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