"However justice has to be equal for all of society"
Yes it has, and these examples and the general situation show it is not the case with Travellers
Ward was killed when a farmer administered a coup de gráce while he was crawling away wounded - the defence was that the farmer was in fear of his safety - he was acquitted.
The policeman's son was tried for manslaughter after it had been established that he walked home, armed himself with a knife and returned to settle a shouting argument.
I the prevailing atmosphere towards Travellers here, the conclusion is that both results were due to the victims in each case being Travellers - these are not isolated incidents, but regular occurrences which I have been aware of throughout the the forty years I have been associated with Travellers - it is pretty well accepted here that this is the case.
I don't know who you are, so I don't know if we have argued on those subject before, but I have argued with others proffering the same arguments.
My "you" was generally aimed and not at you specifically.
I approach these arguments with some degree of experience of the prejudice that is and has always been adopted to Travellers.
I followed both of these cases with some interest at the time they happened and was actually involved in the incident of the family being driven out.
Probably the most interesting aspect of all of them, the verdicts of the court case being a foregone conclusion, were the phone-in discussions that took place afterwards - the general wave of hatred towards Travellers was chilling.
Failing to take these incidents out of the context surround them is to miss the point.
I repeat - the verdicts in both of them would have been very different if the victims had not been Travellers, especially taking into consideration the proximity of both of them.
Jim Carroll