Usual Police propaganda about the suspect, which like the tube killing and the nigerian tourist, may prove to be false in the fullness of time.

The pressure on lawyers these days to snitch/inform on their clients makes even an honest lawyer worry !!!

There may be light at the end of the tunnel for the Da Vinci Madonna lawyers ??

I’m getting very worried at my serial visits to your blog to view VM’s new avatar. Very worried indeed. Like Lord Laidlaw (as reported in The News of The Screws only this day) - I am thinking of turning myself in for therapy.

I won’t, however, be donating a million quid to an institute for fellow sufferers.

I’ve even taken to going to internet cafes to disguise my IP address…. so you don’t think it is me visiting your site.

I’m glad I’m not a catholic. I’d have to do drink a lot of hail mary’s to expunge my lasciviousness’

I am disappointed to note that for once your good sense and judgment has let you down. You suggest that hirsute members of society (with or without their motor bicycles, tricycles or quad cycles) are more inclined to commmit criminal offences. There are reasons why this is obvious balderdash.
1. If one follows your argument to its logical conclusion, the longer the hair the more likely would be the propensity to offend.
2. The corollary of this is that the shorter the hair the less likely one is to commit a crime.
3. There are elements in modern society who (misguidedly) think it is a fashion statement to shave their heads. Does your logic suggest that before shaving such a person is public enemy number one and after shaving is suddenly transformed into an incarnation of the Angel Gabriel?
4. This belies the fact that some people consider that losing one’s hair is bad and the way to deal with it is to shave it all off! Some such people seem to think that they acquire a more macho image which will embolden them in any fracas in which they become embrioled. This seems to be a particularly prevalent view in (inter alia) night club bouncers and policemen (so I am told - I have no personal experience of this), as well as a number of yobs and undesirables.

No VM. The problems lie in those who fail to conform to the accepted standards of honesty, decency and hair length of our society. The long haired wierdos are no better or worse than the shaven-haired wierdos.

P.S. Does not your tasteful portrait show you with LONG hair (done up in a bun)? How do your fallacious arguments apply to the fairer sex?
P.P.S. Should not all citizens be aware of the law (including their human rights)? Is this not a “good thing” (Sellers & Yeatman: 1066 And All That)? Therefore if hairy people are, as you contend, more aware of their human rights, are they not, to that extent at least, good members of society?

Your new portrait depicts you in an extraordinariy sensual fashion, such that I am deeply concerned that the modesty for which you are renowned, appears to have temporarily deserted you; are you not concerned that your site traffic will now attract individuals of less shade, colour and taste as your good self?!
Pay no attention to GeekLawyer -the measure of his hirsutness is his claim to have three hairs on his chest, two of which are loose.

Can I suggest that one should look at the accused’s lifestyle wealth and education? My theory being that that those like myself and VM possessing significant facial hair should be accorded a degree of flexibility not to be accorded to those for whom three syllables represents the sum of these in their entire autobiography?

I see no reason why a hairy biking accountant, barrister or Tesco’s shelf-filler should be treated in the same way as a biking solicitor-inadequate. Least of all female ones.