Eloi Britain saved by Morlock suicide

By chance I came upon a BBC story in my Inbox which a reader had sent on January 25 but I had missed:

** Iraqi killer wins right to stay **
An Iraqi immigrant who stabbed to death two NHS doctors has won the right to stay in Britain, it is confirmed.

The Iraqi immigrant, named Laith Alani, “was sentenced to an indefinite term of imprisonment in a maximum-security unit at Rampton Hospital, near Nottingham, in 1991” for killing two doctors after he had “claimed to have received a command from Allah.” And now the Home Office, in the person of immigration minister Phil Woolas, was trying to deport him, and an immigration judge, named Lance Waumsley (you couldn’t make up these British names), said no, both for the usual British reasons—it would violate the killer’s civil rights—and also because he would pose a danger to people in Iraq, as the poor dear wouldn’t be able to get meds there.

The story doesn’t make sense. The man has been in a “secure hospital” for 19 years, and suddenly the government tries to deport him? Why? Why not just leave him in the maximum security facility for life?

So I did a search for a better article, and found one at the Mail, and guess what? Alani committed suicide on February 7. Just two weeks after the court decision barring his deportation.

The Mail article gives a much better account of the facts than the BBC. The reason the government was trying to deport him was that he was due to be released from the secure hospital where he’s been for the last 19 years. And in fact he had already been moved to a 12 bed residential facility in preparation for his release. Apparently the judicial decision that he could not be deported did not involve a reversal of his pending release. So the mental health authorities (evidently the criminal authorities were no longer involved) were going to put a dangerous killer into society. And for some reason the killer himself saved the situation by committing suicide.

In passing I note that Alani was not declared not guilty by reason of insanity, but only by reason of “diminished responsibility.”

The Mail’s account of the murders is much more detailed than the BBC’s:

Alani killed consultant cosmetic surgeons Michael Masser and Kenneth Paton, to whom he had been referred for the removal of a tattoo on his arm. He became concerned about treatment delays and tried to remove the tattoo himself with a knife.

The doctors died at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in November 1990 after Alani was told he would have to wait to have the work done on the NHS.

Mr Masser, 42, who had a seven-year-old daughter, was stabbed six times in the throat and chest. His wife gave birth to their son six weeks before Alani’s trial in 1991.

Mr Paton, who had three children, suffered 24 stab wounds in his chest and abdomen.

Look again at the relentless use of the passive voice.

The doctors died … in November 1990 after Alani was told he would have to wait to have the work done on the NHS.

Mr Masser … was stabbed six times in the throat and chest….

Mr. Paton … suffered 24 stab wounds in his chest and abdomen.

So, even the supposedly non-PC Mail employs this sickly dishonest language aimed at concealing and softening the reality of evil acts, because if the evil nature of evil acts were stated plainly, that would make us feel judgmental toward the evil doer, and thus morally superior to him, and what right have we to feel morally superior to anyone, given our history of colonialism and racism and the terrible things that have been done in the name of Christianity? We are all equal, and includes being morally equal.

Here’s the way a non-PC newspaper would have reported the same facts:

Alani fatally stabbed the two doctors at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in November 1990 after they told him he would have to wait to have the work done on the NHS.

Alani stabbed Mr Masser six times in the throat and chest. He stabbed Mr Paton 24 times in his chest and abdomen.

Masser, 42, had a seven-year-old daughter. His wife gave birth to their son six weeks before Alani’s trial in 1991.

Paton had three children.

And this man was about to be set free into British society.

Here’s the Mail article:

Iraqi who killed two doctors in frenzied knife attack hangs himself just weeks after winning right to stay in Britain
Last updated at 1:51 PM on 07th February 2010

An Iraqi immigrant who killed two doctors because he had received ‘a command from Allah has hanged himself just weeks after winning the right to stay in Britain.

Laith Alani, 41, was found dead last week at a secure hospital in West Yorkshire.

Alani has spent most of the last 19 years in a secure hospital after he killed two NHS consultants in a frenzied attack in 1990.

The Home Office wanted him deported on his release but in October he won the right to stay in Britain—because a tribunal ruled he would be a threat to the public if deported to his homeland.

It also ruled that sending him back to Iraq would also be a breach of his human rights.

The tribunal panel, led by senior immigration judge Lance Waumsley, made the decision because if he was sent home he would inevitably be taken off the medication which controls his behaviour.

Alani, 41, who was due to be released in the near future, has been receiving the drug clozapine on the NHS for ten years.

Alani killed consultant cosmetic surgeons Michael Masser and Kenneth Paton, to whom he had been referred for the removal of a tattoo on his arm. He became concerned about treatment delays and tried to remove the tattoo himself with a knife.

The doctors died at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in November 1990 after Alani was told he would have to wait to have the work done on the NHS.

Mr Masser, 42, who had a seven-year-old daughter, was stabbed six times in the throat and chest. His wife gave birth to their son six weeks before Alani’s trial in 1991.

Mr Paton, who had three children, suffered 24 stab wounds in his chest and abdomen.

At his trial, Alani admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and was sent to Rampton maximum security hospital for an indefinite term.

In 2008 as part of a ‘staged preparation for his intended release into normal society’ he was moved to a 12-bed residential care home for those with mental health problems.

[end of Mail article]

Now let’s go back to the January 24 BBC story, and see further the reason why the story made no sense to me:

The Ministry of Justice would not comment on the individual case but said restricted patients were carefully managed for public protection and underwent rigorous risk assessment.

“They can be discharged from secure hospitals by the Mental Health Tribunal which is entirely independent of government,” a ministry spokesman said. [LA replies: evidently this means that the Mental Health authorities are also entirely independent of the police and criminal courts.]

“If discharged, restricted patients are subject to intensive supervision by doctors and mental health professionals.

“The Secretary of State has the power to recall a conditionally discharged patient to hospital immediately if he receives information that the patient’s risk to others is increasing as a result of his mental disorder.”

The Home Office said a record 5,400 foreign criminals were deported in 2008.

All foreign national prisoners were now considered for deportation before release, and over the past three years about a quarter have gone before the end of their sentence, it added.

Note that the BBC does not actually say that Alani was going to be released, which was, as we now know, the reason that immigration authorities sought to have him deported. Instead, it talks in a general way about the general procedures by which mentally ill prisoners are released, along with lots of reassuring language about how carefully they are monitored and supervised. Right. The BBC never comes out and says, “This double murderer who killed two doctors in a savage knife attack and said that Allah told him to do it, is about to be let onto the streets.”

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James N. writes:

“If discharged, restricted patients are subject to intensive supervision by doctors and mental health professionals.”

The crazy killer liberation movement always puts forth this rationale—that doctors and mental health professionals will “supervise,” or, on occasion, that they will “intensively supervise,” some homicidal maniac who has come to the movement’s attention.

This, of course, is false. Firstly, once the crazy killer is released, all such “supervision” becomes a consensual process in which Joe or Jane Crazy has rights, which a phalanx of lawyers and courts vie to enforce. The remedy for a doctor’s violation of such “rights” varies, but always involves money damages and sometimes involves professional damage such as practice restriction.

Secondly, many mental health “professionals” are themselves ex-crazies or, at a minimum, crazy liberation proponents.

Thirdly, and most importantly, doctors and other people who deal with crazies on a regular basis have no training and no skills for this police role. In the Virginia Tech case, the killer had multiple contacts with professionals who, if they were capable of carrying out a role such as this, would have done so.

The only supervision that is adequate for people who kill due to defective thinking processes is the dungeon, or the grave.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 25, 2010 10:05 AM | Send