Crime doesn’t pay for law-abiding citizens

Over the Easter holiday weekend, the Irish Examiner reported that an alleged stolen vehicle was used in a burglary and driven at high speed through the streets of Cork.

The driver endangered the lives of other road users, and an injured Garda was hospitalised.

Having been apprehended, the individuals in the vehicle were:

1) provided with free legal aid, as they are in receipt of ‘welfare’.

2) their legal counsel requested medical and psychiatric evaluations.

3) they were provided with comfortable lodgings, free food and facilities (electricity, water, heat, TV etc): ie, in jail.

All at the expense of the Irish taxpayer.

There is something seriously wrong with any system that makes the law-biding taxpayer responsible for providing comfort and support to alleged criminals.

Michael A. Moriarty

Rochestown

Cork