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Originally Posted by churchman phil
His stuff was in storage. I'm sure he'd have easily found somewhere else to live.....unless he would've had to disclose the fact that he was a serial rapist.
Oh! But he doesn't have to do that does he 'cos that would probably infringe his rights to privacy or something. So any prospective landlord/lady could be left in the same predicament.
In fact, do modern rental agreements have a provision for disclosure of criminal convictions?? If not, should they?? The lady in the article states that if she'd known she wouldn't have let to him due to girls working in the salon below. Ergo - would he then have been in breach of contract for not being truthful????
As always with stories like this, we, the general public, are only really told the basics for the story. If every little thing was disclosed then maybe we would think differently. However, the man WAS convicted TO LIFE and should therefore lose all privileges. His belongings should be sold to pay for his costs in the original case.
Until such time a political party actually takes the bull by the horns and says enough of the 'softly, softly' approach with the criminal element of the country then I stand by the title of this thread regarding this story - THE LAW IS AN ASS.
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I live in rented property and I could easily be arrested on suspicion of a crime by mistake. I'd hate to think my landlady could empty my home and rent it out to someone else when I haven't breached my contract.
This decision was clearly based on that idea and to stop the possible creation of a loophole in tenancy agreements. Why is this story not in decent newspapers? Because the only point of the story is that he is a rapist, not the law at all.
Also, she is the one that broke the law in this case, not him. If the decision was based on him being a rapist it would almost be like double jeopardy.