Revenge has no place in the law – even for John Worboys | Simon Jenkins

Victims of dreadful crimes receive more compensation and sympathy than ever, and rightly so. But justice is not theirs to deliver

Retribution is poor justice. It is the short cut to lynch law and mob rule. Lock-‘em-up-and-throw-away-the key has long been the default mode of British attitudes to crime, spectacularly on display today in the worrying case of the serial sex attacker John Worboys.

No one has any idea on what basis he has been released from an indeterminate sentence after serving lon...