Letter On 42-Day Detention

This was published in the Coventry Telegraph ... and Touch FM also interviewed me on the issue:

People should write to Coventry's three Labour MPs, and urge them to oppose the extension of detention without trial to 42 days. Emergency measures already exist, under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004). If police are overwhelmed by multiple terror plots, the government can use this Act to temporarily extend pre-charge detention. A wide variety of experts -- the current director of public prosecutions, the head of counter-terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service, the former attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, the former lord chancellor, Lord Falconer, the former lord chief justice, Lord Woolf, and the former head of the Met, Lord Condon -- are unconvinced of the need for 42 days. Gordon Brown is determined to take away our civil liberties, and he must be stopped.

Scott Redding
Coventry Green Party
Mayfield Road, Earlsdon