Shock and horror over the rapes in India are justified - but back in
Britain we have no cause to be complacent. A rapist is on the loose
from an open prison.
Sean Cawthray, 41, is a bad man, having
already been jailed for rape twice, in 1990 and 1993. Yet he was in an
open prison after trying to kidnap a teenage girl. This is not a man
about to mend his ways. He saw a chance and took it, and now the police
are out there looking for him.
They must weep into their beer when
all their hard work in tracking down such a waster ends up with him
doing a stretch at Leyhill Open Prison in Glouscestershire. We treat
this terrible crime so seriously that this is all he gets. Most women
would want him locked up and the key thrown down a well. Or send him
after it, saving us all the cost of keeping him warm at night.
When
will rape been seen as the horrific crime it is? The Delhi gang rape
ended in death. It seems we are waiting for much the same here.
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