Pardon?

Ruth Ellis took a gun from her bag and fired 5 shots at Blakely. The first missed. She pursued Blakely as he ran around a car, firing a second shot that caused him to collapse onto the pavement. She then stood over him and fired 3 more bullets. How much more premeditated could it be?  Yet David Lammy pardoned her. 

Of course she was in an abusive relationship and Blakely knocked her about causing her a miscarriage some months before but she absolutely said she intended to kill him & got the Smith & Weston and went to the Magdala Public House with the express intention of filling him full of lead which she absolutely did.  You got to give it to Ruth - not just double tap but quadruple.  The last thing she was having was that bastard surviving on her.  It was like something out of a Quintin Tarantino revenge movie.  Such was the notoriety of the case that the landlady of the pub tried to cash in by drilling fake bullet holes in the walls.... Lammy's pardon has a similar relationship with reality.  But really what is the point of this "pardon" - really a statement that her hanging should have been commuted ... It just sounds like total bollocks.  No contemporary Home Secretary would have not hung her because you can't have people going about shooting off handguns like that even at people who deserve it... so it's just terminally silly.

Elsewhere on his feed Lammy is still ranting about the lady who carried the placard calling him and Sewerella "coconuts" for enabling the genocide in Gaza even though the case fell apart when it went to court because the Judge said it was clearly satire.  Can't wait for him to abolish Jury Trials.  Perhaps he knows Burnham will sack him by the 17th or 19th and is trying to manufacture a positive story to go out on.  But like Ruth the blood won't wash off your hands mate...