“His father David said in a tweet that his son ‘would not wish his death to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences or for detaining people unnecessarily.'”
Of course. Heaven forbid that we learn anything from experience.
“London Bridge terrorist stabbed Cambridge graduate, 25, to death in rampage at prisoner rehabilitation conference that paired jailed killers with students and held creative writing workshops,” by Jack Newman and Danyal Hussain, Mailonline, November 30, 2019:
One of the victims of yesterday’s London Bridge terror attack has been named by his father.
Jack Merritt, 25, from Cottenham, was the course co-ordinator for Learning Together, the education scheme run by the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology that killer Usman Khan had been yesterday afternoon.
The group had been running a conference at Fishmonger’s Hall where the attack started, with Khan one of the former criminals attending the rehabilitation seminar for prisoners.
His father David said in a tweet that his son ‘would not wish his death to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences or for detaining people unnecessarily’….