Britain has become a lawless country where good people have to live in fear
Story by Sherelle Jacobs • 16h
Like many in Britain, I know of more than one young person whose life has been cruelly extinguished in violent circumstances. My brother’s childhood friend Sven Badzak – an aspiring lawyer and son of a Tory activist – was murdered in 2021 in a case of mistaken identity on his way home from Waitrose after picking up orange juice for his mum. I remember him as a small child bursting into my bedroom when he came over to play, a cheeky and infectious ball of energy. Today he is the morbid subject of fascination in true crime podcasts. His murder was a surreal mixture of the psychopathic and the absurd. As they were sentenced, his killers lay down in the dock, cackled and booed at the judge as if he were a pantomime villain.
I’ll never forget morning assembly prayers alongside the equally ebullient Lewis Ghessen, either. I used to chuckle as he boomed “Our Father”, half-jokingly half-seriously, louder than anyone. At the age of 22, he would recite the Lord’s Prayer again while on the phone to the police just before being killed on impact by an express train on the tracks at Harrow and Wealdstone station. Before he died, he claimed he had been chased on to the line by phone muggers. Nobody has ever been held to account for his death.
We live in a country where politicians love to talk about “justice” – from human rights lawyer Sir Keir Starmer to Theresa May, the supposed slayer of “burning injustices”. With “liberty” the love language of the Right and “equality” the crusade of the Left, justice is just about the only unifying value left in our country. But like many, I have completely lost faith in British “justice”. Quite the contrary, ours feels more and more like a lawless country where there is no justice at all.
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