"...criminals with enough legal clout."

When the court overlooks a family's sentence of grief - Miranda Devine - May 7, 2006 -The latest in a series of taxpayer-funded legal manoeuvres comes from Edward Esho, 30, convicted in 2000 of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on Constable David Carty in a fit of insane, unprovoked violence in a Fairfield car park in 1997 have been so trivial as to make a joke of every police officer's job. You might ask what is the point of having a parole authority if its decision can be second-guessed by criminals with enough legal clout. As Lorraine Carty said: "How do we appeal our sentence of grief?"