Some of the views here reflect a savage disinterest in the rule of law. If you commit a crime there should always be a trial. Once you start discarding rule of law, you end up with all kinds of messiness and once you cross those lines there is no going back.

Lawless states exist in the world and they know who they are. Britain has been complicit in such regimes, but I wouldn't like it to become a 'shoot first and stoop to the gutter like the criminals' type of nation which all too obviously exist.

It has happened and though good for a bit of a media salesboost, I don't think it is a massively significant story. Any excuse to have a go at the Muslims really and the hate for Muslims is largely based upon propaganda and ignorance of what we do to them overseas. It should come as no surprise when some snap and want to wreak havoc. It isn't a quantum leap to see where the dislike of Britain comes from. It is a habitual invader of sovereign Muslim lands. Muslim attacks are a token act of resistance at best. One would have to be blind to fail to comprehend where anger comes from.

In some ways Britain is very lucky. Very few Muslims kill English people and yet the British are likely the reason why perhaps tens of thousands of Iraqi's have dead family members and that is just Iraq. These things are always comparable. What makes it worse is that the British government sponsored the Iraqi bloodshed. It should come as no surprise that the British are not loved by all that sail within her borders.