Legal system favours criminals in our violent society

THE deliberate taking of an innocent human life is always a foul and evil deed that can never be reversed or made good. The frequency of unlawful killings (murder/manslaughter) in this supposedly Christian country suggests that, as a people, we are in moral crisis.

Victims of crime and their families are suffering terribly and the legal system that should be protecting society only adds to their misery.

They are victims at the outset when the crime is committed and they remain victims right through the legal process, which is more concerned about legal niceties and protecting the constitutional rights of the accused than rendering justice to the victim.