The attack on human rights protection is relentless. The Daily Mail and The Telegraph this week reported that judges in Strasbourg have handed criminals taxpayer-funded payouts of £4.4m – an average of £22,000 a head. Recipients since 1998 include the traitor George Blake, extremist cleric Abu Qatada and the IRA killer dubbed Mrs Doubtfire.
The figures have been produced by Philip Davies MP and have fuelled fresh demands for Britain to pull out of the convention on which the European Court of Human Rights bases its rulings.
