There are times when you read an article and disagree. There are times when this takes the part of a gentle headshaking, maybe a swearword or two, and there are times when you are glad that the seat beneath you is too heavy to effectively swing at the monitor.

There are times to energetically fisk a story, but once in a while there are times just to leave it alone to stand and fall on its own. This is one of those moments.

“Killer Can’t Be Deported Because He Might Kill Again“
An Iraqi immigrant who stabbed two doctors to death has won the right to stay in Britain after a judge ruled that he would pose a danger to the public in his homeland. An immigration tribunal decided that Laith Alani, a paranoid schizophrenic, should not be deported to Iraq because it would breach his human rights and put people there at risk.

Okay, so the refusal to fisk might have slipped with a bit of highlighting there, but it’s fair. Now on to what he did.

Alani has spent the past 19 years in a secure hospital after he killed two NHS consultants in a frenzied attack because he believed he had received a “command from Allah”.

Mr Masser, 42, was stabbed six times in the throat and chest with a sheath knife. His widow gave birth to son Harry six weeks before Alani’s trial; the couple already had a seven-year-old daughter. Mr Paton, who was 56, and married with three grown-up children, suffered 24 stab wounds in the chest and abdomen.

The surgeons’ bodies were discovered by Mr Paton’s secretary, Pamela Mackay, when blood was seen coming from underneath the door of a consulting room.

After his arrest, Alani told detectives: “It was a command from Allah. I have had visions from Allah and you can’t be more right than Allah.” He told police he believed one of the doctors was Satan and one was Lucifer…

So we’ve established that he isn’t the sort of person you want living in your street. It’s a bit of luck he’s safely locked up where he can’t make blood flow under more doors, isn’t it?

He could be set free next year.

Oh.

Never mind; at least if he shows up in the garden, you’ll be able to wave a knife at him to scare him away.

Oh.