Muammar Al Khadafi

A caretaker from Uffculme has been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for a catalogue of sexual offences, including 15 specimen charges of rape.



David Brown, 62, who worked as a caretaker in the town hall at Cullompton, is said to have raped one victim at least 400 times. Yes, 400, that isn't a typing error.



Exeter Crown Court was told that he used one victim as a "sexual plaything" as he raped her over a six year period.



Other offences included indecent assault.



Among his victims were girls as young as 9 years old.



He had denied all the charges against him, but was sentenced to a total of 18 years in jail, and told that he would serve at least 12 years.



Now, 365 days in a year, 12 years inside - and 400 rapes. That's just under 11 days in prison per rape. Even if we count only the 15 specimen charges he was convicted of, that's just 292 days per rape.



What's the lesson here? If you're going to be a rapist then do it as many times as you can before you get caught?



So much for being tough on crime. Our justice system is a pathetic joke, betraying the victims at every turn and letting the perpetrators off lightly.



Perverts abound and are often back on our streets after serving derisory sentences for a catalogue of offences.



Their victims will carry those scars for life, and - in many cases - their future victims were counting on society to protect them.



Society fails them all, too many rapists and paedophiles ruin young lives and steal innocence, and get away with insultingly short sentences compared to the frequency and magnitude of their crimes.

As the UK's human rights insanity and compensation culture continues, a convicted paedophile is suing - because he was forced to share a cell with a smoker.



Mahmood Qadri was convicted of sexually abusing two young girls at Edinburgh's Polwarth mosque, and was sentenced to 7 years in prison.



Now, because he was placed in a cell with a smoker, he's demanding £10,000 in compensation, saying that being exposed to passive smoking has caused him "significant physical and mental stress".



Qadri is currently awaiting a decision as to whether he will get legal aid to pursue the case.



Care to take a bet on whether he'll get his legal aid and we'll be paying?



Of course you don't, you'd be crazy if you bet £1 against £100, we all know there always seems to be legal aid on tap to ensure that perverts can get their human rights.



Sorry Mahmood, you get a cough, your young victims get to carry those scars for life. You are there because of your own actions, they had no say in whether you abused them or not.



Any compensation as a result of this, and it's a fair certainty how things will turn out given how insane the human rights free for all is, should go to the victims. Simple.



We've always an army of lawyers and legal aid available on demand to make sure that those who commit horrible offences can get their rights protected - it's probably quite profitable to be a child abuser if you can find some hook to sue the authorities on.



Abuse a child and win the compensation lottery, you've just got to find some human rights issue to whine about whilst in prison, the taxpayer will do the rest and pay out your prize.



What kind of message does that send?



It is high time that the rights were given back to the law abiding, that victims had rights to be protected - not how it is now where every right seems to belong to the wrongdoer, you can commit a crime and win prizes.



Tell us again Nick Clegg how that human rights madness you so passionately defended in the Guardian is such a great thing, isn't flawed, and doesn't result in travesties like this becoming the norm.