00:00Well I think for a crime this appalling and this sickening, a whole life order would have
00:04been appropriate to make sure that under all circumstances he would spend the rest of his
00:09life in prison. I think as one of the families of the victims said yesterday, they're going
00:15to be serving a sentence for the rest of their lives, suffering the anguish caused by the
00:20loss of their daughter, and yet this evil perpetrator could be released during the course
00:26of his lifetime. I think a whole life order would have been appropriate. Of course that
00:30wasn't open to the judge under the law as it stands, so we think the law should be reviewed
00:34to look at whether in exceptional circumstances, extreme cases like this, a whole life order
00:39should be available to the judge. So I think in the immediate aftermath of the incident,
00:44the government and the Crown Prosecution Service could have been more open and honest with
00:49the public about, for example, Rudy Cabana's background, his identity, the other materials
00:55they found in his flat. Those of course were disclosed a few months later, but they weren't
01:00disclosed at the time, and that created a void, and into that void misinformation was
01:05pumped, including by hostile foreign states, which fuelled the riots which then happened.
01:10So I think the government may have got that wrong. In other cases, we have seen more information
01:14being made public at a very early stage following an arrest, and I think it is therefore critical
01:19that the inquiry the government have announced, which we support, should cover the aftermath
01:24of the incident, and in particular whether the Prime Minister and the CPS, the Crown
01:28Prosecution Service, were open and honest with the public, and whether the lack of transparency
01:35fuelled those riots. It's vital the inquiry covers that. I still haven't had that confirmed
01:40by the government. I'm going to keep pressing them until I get that confirmation.
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