THE noble lords who preside over the running joke called the British legal system have just ruled that it is quite lawful to hijack an aircraft, armed with knives, handgrenades, and pistols (allegedly unloaded) hold 100 passengers hostage for three days threatening to kill them and then claim asylum supposedly because you are fleeing from the Taliban (some of whom are living in the UK having claimed asylum because they were fleeing from somebody else).

Now suppose the aircraft had carried armed airmarshals, and they had killed some of the hijackers?

Doubtless the airmarshals would have been charged with unlawful killing and endangering an aircraft and what of the post traumatic stress that everyone suffers from nowadays if they even break a fingernail?

John Utting

Swindon