HOME Secretary David Blunkett is living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks that giving criminals chance to apologise to their victims will redeem them and cut crime figures.
We would like to be able to share the touching faith of those prison reformers who believe that this part of Blunkett's "restorative justice" scheme will enable offenders to see the human face of what they have done.
The big question is, when they see it how many of them will care?
Norman Brennan of the Victims of Crime Trust is right to believe that for many criminals saying sorry will be an easy cop out.
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