Monday, July 18, 2005

Of crime and criminals

"Forensic Psychiatrist Dr Robert Kaplan looks at a number of past medical serial killers and talks about the events in Queensland where former Bundaberg-based surgeon Dr Jayant Patel is under investigation for the deaths of patients under his care."
The Health Report, ABC-RN, today

As discussed on June 26 in Turtles, the ABC is eroding your security and mine. Dr Jayant Patel, whom Dr Robert Kaplan compares with British serial killer Dr Harold Shipman, has not been tried, nor has he been charged with any crime.

Whether Patel is a criminal or not, monster or not, should it not be a crime to undermine publicly in such flagrant ways the "golden thread" of the justice system, namely the presumption that an accused person is innocent until proved guilty, and shouldn't those found guilty of that crime be made accountable?

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