This is a pretty arrogant/ patronising response. Uncalled for, maybe an apology is in order.

My eldest daughter left home 57 years ago and I had little influence over her then, and none since. She is, and always has been, completely able to make up her own mind. She might have inherited some of her determination and tenacity from me but her views are her's alone.

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If you wrote what I did and then received that response I wager your reaction would be much less measured than mine.

When people wilfully misunderstand the point being made and then decide to insult you as a consequence they deserve being "talked down to".

My views are not the least bit "twisted". They are perfectly straightforward. The only twists are put in by those who try to read other things into them. Despite me constantly explaining it still happens hence the suggestion our friend takes some time to actually read and understand what was said. Which was not at all what he seemed to think I said.

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Please explain what the relevance of the comment is to what I am recommending.

For the umpteenth time this has nothing at all to do with the crimes themselves. It has ONLY to do with the most effective way to bring those involved to justice. That's all.

If you are right and it really was "a few hundred" then that's where the focus needs to be. On those few hundred perverted, criminal, men.

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By whose authority do you make such a claim?

I never said it was statistically significant. I have absolutely no idea what % of people would so identify and don't actually care either.

I just know it isn't none at all. Which is what you claimed and isn't true.

Which seems to have as much validity as the last one you have offered me.

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Oh in that case I will have to defer to your superior connections. Always preferred Steve Davis myself as he had by far the more exciting personality. Mountjoy never mounted any joy in me.

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