Inmate in jail was able to have £18,000-a-year full-time job,...

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visit his girlfriend... and carry out armed raid on post office A joke? Something that could not happen? Well, don't be just too sure yet. I just came across this article on the Daily Mail UK, today (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078547/Inmate-holiday-camp-jail-able-18-000-year-time-job-visit-girlfriend--carry-armed-raid-post-office.html). In the article it tells about an armed robber raided a post office while still serving a sentence at an open prison which was 'like a holiday camp.' The inmate, Cecil Stephens, 46, was a 'dangerous' career criminal with a shocking record, yet he was allowed to spend most of his time outside jail earning money or enjoying himself, a court was told. He had an £18,000 a year full-time job, made regular weekend 'conjugal visits' to see the girlfriend who later acted as his getaway driver and went on unsupervised shopping trips. It further related how on the morning of the raid last December he left prison at 8am smelling of after-shave, telling guards he was looking forward to 'getting naughty' in a bed and breakfast with girlfriend Doreen Cramman, 51. Instead she drove him 70 miles to the North Newbald Post Office in East Yorkshire and provided the balaclava and gun he needed for his raid. Just what is happening to the legal system nowadays? The system which the east are looking up to has failed yet again. Why? I am just perplexed and appalled at the same time. What is your view here?