Our thanks to Stu for a lengthy piece in The Guardian.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
“Over the past decade, the police have recorded fewer crimes and the courts have prosecuted and convicted fewer defendants. But those who are found guilty of any crime – from burglary and fraud to sexual offences and murder – are more likely to get a prison sentence in Britain today than they were a decade ago.”
A really good piece. It doesn’t of course mention the very different approach to female offenders. Inevitably the continuing process of trial and imprisonment for historical abuse leads to older offenders, and one has to wonder if elderly men are “easy meat” in these cases as they may be much less able to mount a defence. Certainly it appears that once convicted frequently other cases are added later .
Not mentioned here is the “empathy gap” in the context of early dementias. The resultant confusion of dementia can lead to fear and anxiety and verbal or physical violence lashing out at family suddenly unfamiliar. This used to be responded to as a Safeguarding social or health care issue, but since infection of these processes by the “gendered” domestic violence ideology there has been a period wherein a prosecution of a man resulted (of course not women because we sympathise with them if they lash out ).
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Arresting very old men (old women are very rarely arrested, no matter what the crime) is rather uncivilized, even brutal. Whatever cultural norms or trends lead to this type of scenario, need to be abandoned right away. Something tells me feminism has a hand in this.
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“When Jimmy Saville died a free man ……after years of raping children and hospital patients” I may have missed something but has this ever been proved and if not shouldn’t he be presumed innocent?
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