All those who suffered rejoice this morning and look forward to the day when an Ulster Assembly will come into being that can look the rest of the world in the eye with honour and respect for what they are meant to be as a people who do not reward evil deeds with positions of power.

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The point of such pronouncements was to emphasise the Conservative belief that criminals are responsible for the evil that they do and should not be allowed to blame society for it.

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