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The British mother of six-year-old Jerry McKenzie killed her son’s molester and murderer after he walked free from court, allegedly, because he was on the verge of exposing a VIP child sex ring. Incidents such as these raise concerns over the corruptibility of a failing judicial system in respect to how it occasionally tilts the scales of justice in order to protect high-ranking people.

More recently, such weaknesses of justice were also arguably exposed at the high court of Pretoria, where the controversial South African murder case, Oscar Pistorius –v- Reeve Steenkam and family has rocked the world. The judge in the Postorius trial is still unsure as to which punishment to give to the double- amputee athlete, who allegedly shot his girlfriend four times trough a lock door last year, killing her almost instantly.

The French Novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) once put it this way:  “Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”

Balzac’s magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy; 1815), which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Compare the seriousness of Pistorius crime and its allegedly “partial house arrest and community service” punishment, with that of a mentally ill man recently sentenced to 10 months simply for refusing to pay the universally discredited bedroom tax; or, for that matter, the young man who was sentenced to six months in prison for stealing a bottle of water during the August 2011 riots.

‘One law for the rich and one for the poor’ is an adage almost as old as the discrepancies in justice apportioned on the basis of one’s social status that it encapsulates.

Jack-O-Lantern. Halloween the festival of the dead: Tribute to countless deceased victims of violent crime. The Bridge MAG. Image

As the world plans to celebrate Halloween, also known as the festival of the dead, there cannot be a better time to pay tribute to the dead.

A glance at legion unpunished crimes worldwide due to a failing judicial system could well see a return to a state of affairs where the last resort for exacting ‘justice’ is in personal vendetta, vigilantism and revenge.

What is Halloween? 

There are many versions to the origins of ‘Halloween’. Most scholars believe that All Hallows’ Eve was originally influenced by Western European harvest festivals of the dead, which have their roots in paganism.

However, the most common theory is that Halloween was a festival thought to have originated with the Druids, a Celtic sect who annually celebrate an honouring of the dead every 31^st October.

In an interview with The Bridge Magazine, Mrs McKenzie, who has now been released from prison after serving half of her sentence for killing her son’s murderer, when we asked why she killed her son’s offender, told us:

“When my son’s molester gave details that only the true murderer would know, including some details that were never revealed publicly, I knew and I am still convinced it was the right thing to do to give to Jerry’s soul justice and to prevent other children from becoming victims.

When it comes to a high profile criminal case versus an ordinary person, the case is lost in advance

The poor are jailed for petty theft (a croissant stolen to save his child for starvation) and the rich will be released on bail, and will then walk free after deliberately abusing a child or killing someone… I have no remorse for killing my child’s molester at all.”

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the latest International Statistics on Crime and Justice…

Law must not be ‘bent’ in deference to the accused by dint of their high profile status and connections. The Bridge MAG. Image

I – The respect of the right of a fair trial as an essential Human Right Principle.

Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides that:

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III  Toward a fair judiciary system. Crime and equal sanction for all. 

Which way to turn when a judiciary system goes wrong?

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