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The situation of prisoners in Icelandic prisons has been under much discussion lately. We read stories about white-collar criminals serving their sentence in single-family houses at Kvíabryggja, hear that prisoners can surf the internet at will and even serve long sentences outside prison. Is this the reality of Icelandic prisoners?   Kvíabryggja prison  A great awakening as to if it is not high time to approach imprisonment as betterment rather than punishment has begun. Most of our neighbour countries…

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On 2 May 1982 the Argentine cruiser ‘General Belgrano’ was sunk by a British submarine. Despite the huge loss of life, the action was applauded in Britain as a shrewd blow in the Falklands conflict; but as the facts began to emerge, disturbing doubts concerning the role of the British government in the incident were raised.   For although it was claimed, at first, that the submarine commander had been acting on his own initiative in firing his torpedoes, it…

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On hearing that lie detector tests are to be compulsory from October this year reminds me of the Polygraph test the prison service allowed me to conduct on behalf of my then Client Jeremy Bamber. He passed. Both George Galloway MP and Mr. Hunter MP pressed the Home Office as to when Bamber would be released, in view of having passed five lie detector tests for five murders! I wrote to the Secretary of State seeking Mr. Bambers release!…

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In 1978 at the University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology Professor Keith Simpson was delivering a lecture to aspirant medical students. Some were alarmed when he opened with the words.   ‘Doctors are in a particularly good position to commit murder and escape detection. Their patients, sometimes their own fading wives, more often merely aging nuisances, are in their sole hands. ‘Dangerous drugs’ and powerful poisons lie in their professional bags or in their surgery. No one is watching…

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