Value of human life

“Human life is sacred and the taking of human life by any group, for any reason cannot be justified,” Fr Michael Canny said yesterday following the murder of Andrew Allen in Buncrana.

There are suggestions that a group calling itself Republican Action Against Drugs killed him.

The implications are obvious — the murderers are trying to cover up their own contemptible behaviour by pretending to be crusading against illicit drugs. Society should be aware that these kinds of allegations in such circumstances are always a smoke screen. Those people are taking the law into their own hands for their own ends.