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Emyr
Interesting insight in to Mrs Thatcher's views on crime.
She insisted that the Moors murderers should never be released:
“I do not think that either of these prisoners should ever be released from custody. Their crime was the most hideous and cruel in modern times,” she wrote on Brittan’s proposal.
but wrote to Brezhnev in 1982 about Rudolph Hess:
“There is to my mind no justification for keeping Hess in prison any longer. He is 88. He has been in prison for 40 years. He has been without the company of other prisoners for over 16 years. Humanitarian reasons demand that no one should be treated this way,”
To be fair to her the US and France took the same view of Hess.