Neighbourhood justice 'could lead to law of the jungle'

British government plans for neighbourhood justice schemes in the North could condemn nationalist communities to rough justice and one sided political policing, it was claimed today.

As the House of Commons’ Northern Ireland Affairs Committee prepared for two days of evidence in Belfast on the Government’s revised community restorative justice proposals, nationalist SDLP deputy leader Dr Alasdair McDonnell warned they could leave some neighbourhoods exposed to the law of the jungle.