What kind of country is this? asked Damilola's father. . . the answer, says MELANIE PHILLIPS, is one that has lost the ability to impose law and order.

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: April 6, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: MELANIE PHILLIPS

THE despairing words of Damilola Taylor's father said it all. As the Old Bailey jury found the youths accused of killing his son not guilty of murder and then failed to agree on whether they were guilty of manslaughter, he put his head in his hands and said to his wife: 'This is rubbish.

This is a mess. What kind of a country is this?' One might well ask. The Taylors have now been put through the harrowing ordeal of sitting through no...

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