We’ve given criminals and addicts the right to obstruct the course of justice

THE killing of Donna Cleary would seem to have been related to drugs. The chief suspect, Dwayne Foster, was reportedly high on a lethal cocktail of heroin and cocaine.

With his reckless lifestyle, he was never going to live very long. The great pity was that he took the life of a young woman with him.

Under our system of justice, a person is entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. He will never be proven guilty. But that does not mean that we should not face up to reality. Once he died, the media were openly describing him as a well-known armed robber, even though he had never been convicted.