A number of points in the article frustrate me:
Sally Clark, 42, had so much alcohol in her blood when she died that she would have been five times over the drink-driving limit, post mortem tests showed.
That's not a bloody lot of alcohol, even for a lady. If we take for argument's sake for a lady, one 175ml glass of wine to reach the driving limit, then five times the limit is just over a bottle of wine. Most unlikely to kill anyone, but it sounds alarmist. Five times the limit, wow! Rubbish! Many social drinkers manage to go ten times the limit without thinking about it and without dire consequence.
"These problems included enduring personality change after catastrophic experience, protracted grief reaction and alcohol dependency syndrome," the coroner's officer told the hearing.
Alcohol dependency syndrome? Another name packaged in PC speak. Alcoholism to you and me. It's not a nice stigma to attach to anybody, but cut the crap, the lady (understandably) became an alcoholic due to the shit the system put her through and now the system is trying to playdown the severity of the condition it helped create in her by proxy of its actions.
"There has clearly been a most tragic history leading up to Mrs Clark's sad death," the coroner said. "The court's hope is that Mr Clark and the family will be able to treasure all the happy memories they have of Mrs Clark."
What fucking family? The two children that died were the cause of her incarceration and now she is dead Mr Clark is left on his own. Do these people ever think before they open their mouths with the textbook sympathy they are seemingly trained to regurgitate?
Sickening.
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