He looked frail as he stood on the steps of the court in London. And his brother Peter Hodgson – who stood with his arm around him – spoke on his behalf.

Sean Hodgson has finally been let out. Click on the picture and we may have some clue why he admitted to this crime and others as well.
In the Times Online article, it says that a free newspaper is given away to all prisoners who can read.

That’s 46,000!

Given that we are told there are over 80,000 prisoners, this means that most people who are incarcerated are illiterate and will thus find it hard to defend themselves. It may be that illiterate people commit more crime – but that’s a different argument.

As I noted in my original post above, criminals in past history have admitted to things that would even bring them a painful death. A bit like Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame.

It could be that Hodgson is like this. If so, it means he is (or more likely was) mad.

But being mad isn’t a crime.

The crime is that the killer of Teresa de Simone is probably still walking free, maybe even reading this. Maybe the killer has killed again.
The police have now re-opened the case and are presumably wacking the DNA through the world’s biggest DNA database (ours). Let’s hope that true justice is seen to be done this time. It’s when events like this happen (and with increasing regularity it must be said), that confidence in crime solving and thus the law, our law, falls.

Hopefully, future errors will be ‘human’ errors and minor lapses, not due to criminal police behaviour or shoddy judiciary. I mean,

‘Everybody said he was innocent’

I can’t imagine how he’s felt all this time. It’s just awful. Absolutely awful.