I am amazed that the picture in the News of the World could ever be described as a “North African” – it looks to me like someone from Northern Britain. This may be because you planted the seeds of it being an IRA hunger striker into my mind before I looked at the picture. Now, I can just imagine this drawing in full colour as part of a Falls Road mural…

It is almost beyond belief that this mad woman is a Healthcare Co-ordinator. Newark is in even more dire straits than you would imagine (it being a pretty pants place in general). If you read her actual quote you can see that she has no actual idea, and has (like lots of people) just assumed that because he looked shifty he must be a kidnapper. Shame on her. She should be sacked – if she hasn’t already been grossly incompetent in her job, she soon will be.