Ooops my mistake

Ooops, I'm sorry, I made a mistake with my last blog entry. We were told that if he didn't return last night to his probation approved residence from his Moms house that he would be re-arrested and sent back to jail to serve out the rest of his sentence.

Well we received a phone call today to say that he hadn't returned to the hostel or his housing last night. He still hasn't made contact with the probation service. He's still in the village that probation conditions state he's not allowed to be in. So yes, he broke every single condition they set for him yesterday. So yes, he should have been arrested, BUT... yep, that's right they've decided he'll be given until tomorrow night now. If he doesn't arrive home on the last bus tonight then they'll think about throwing him back in prison.

My god. Not even a definite WE WILL throw him back in. It's once again "well if he can't follow the rules we'll have to think about bending them for him".

They explained to us that the logic behind how they're treating him. Apparently they believe the problem is his mother, so if they throw him back in jail when he gets out there will be no conditions on his release and he'll be able to move home and they won't be able to control him.

I'm sorry but is this supposed to be their way of controlling the situation? As far as I can see all they've done to control the situation so far is to give him Willy Wonka's Golden Ticket for causing trouble.

He's been at home for almost a week and is making no effort to return to his housing. In fact it's obvious he's decided that he wants to live at home now, and they've obviously decided that they're going to let him.

I mean you might not have read one of my original blogs saying about the reason that they released him even earlier than his parole was set was because he was crying all the time about how he missed his mom.

So there's a real contradicition from them there. They don't want him being around his Mom because they believe she's the cause of all the problems. Yet they released him because he missed her and was suicidal without her? Sounds like a con's con for getting out of prison to me, and a service that's supposed to help people who actually do want to make a fresh start with their lives are actually helping him to entrench himself in the exact same life under the impression that they're helping him! Well d'uh!

Maybe I'm just simple or don't quite get it. Does that mean that if he attacks my 8 year old niece again that they'll just let it slide because you knowm, it's not really his fault. Attacking my niece (and several other little girls and several old women) is just his way of getting back at his Mom so therefore he should be pitied not punished?

Nobody has taken any kind of pity on my niece. Most of the locals who we've known for 20 years have given us grief in the street (including some of our relatives) saying how nasty we were sending him to prison. He didn't deserve it. He was just messing about. Nobody seems to focus on the fact that he ATTACKED an 8 YEAR OLD girl with a KNIFE and then attempted to stab another 6 members of that little girls family with the same knife! Nope, that's just "having a little fun".

Well I'd like to torture him for days. You know, make him see sense about how bad his actions were. You know, something that would be "a little fun". You know though that if I even swung for him I would probably be arrested, and probably go to jail for longer than him.

Want to know a couple of things that really really annoy me about the whole situation though, and I wish somebody could give me answers about it, rather than just turn their heads and whistle dixie like the cops, the probation service and every other person I ask :

1) Why is it that I constantly get stopped and searched by the police? I have no criminal record but I'll guarantee that if I go for more than a 5 mile drive I'll get stopped. Yet this little gang, well know for commiting assaults, robberies (including violent street assualts), drug dealing, drug taking, drinking in public (which is a finable offence here, yet they're allowed to do it), never gets stopped.

2) Why is it that the papers refuse to acknowledge us?

3) Why is it that only one of the gang went to prison when all were involved in the assault?

4) Why is it that for 6 months the rest of the gang kept attacking our house, our cars, our nephew (even going to his school) and yet when we phoned the police it could take up to 2 weeks for a response?

5) Why is it that when they stood outside the shop that we own and threatened our customers to stop them going inside (costing us hundreds of pounds in lost sales) the police didn't respond until after the end of the day? And when a cop showed up he said that there wasn't anything they could do as they weren't breaking any laws? Yet when I said that the next time they did it I would remove them from the premises with force I was told I would be charged with assault?

Those are just the simple common sense questions! As I know I'll get no resonse to them by anybody anywhere I'll just pose 5 questions rather than the hundred I have bouncing around my head. Can anybody anywhere help?

Anyway I'll post again later. There's a funny story I want to tell you that happened the other night. Here's hoping you're day is peaceful and progressive.