Justice ?

[Von Smallhausen]

David Bieber, who killed Pc Ian Broadhurst in cold blood in 2003 and shot two of his colleagues has won an appeal to have his sentence reduced from a whole life term to a minimum of 37 years.

Personally ? I am sickened by it. To murder a police officer while he pleaded for his life after being shot sickens me to to the core and in my world the bastard would have swung from a rope and keyboard aside, I would have pulled the lever myself.

Although 37 years is a long time it still leaves the possibility that he may have liberty at some point and that is something I can never accept.

You can shoot a police officer dead, shoot two others then argue that a whole life term is contravening article 3 of the Human Rights Act on degrading and inhuman punishment ? I despair.

I think Ian Broadhurst will be spinning in his grave and Pcs' Neil Roper and James Banks will feel subtantially more sickened than I am.

This is one of many decisions that are really testing my committment to the job and why I am looking to get out and change career.

BBC News.