George Tyndale: Who's going to pick out future crooks? T.(Features) From: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) | Date: December 30, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: George Tyndale

LORD Chief Justice Woolf says that potential paedophiles should be locked up BEFORE they commit any crime.

This is an illuminating idea. It illuminates exactly the half-baked reasoning that has left our justice system in such a sorry, error-ridden, shamefully slow and ineffective state.

Just how Lord Woolf would identify the potential child-molesters he has not made clear.

By the look in their eye perhaps? Or maybe...

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