George Tyndale : Jade Goody's funeral rights for sale to highest bidder?
At last somebody has acted with sense and dignity in the shoddy and shameful soap opera that is the marketing of the death of Jade Goody.
Karin Cox, chairman of the magistrates in Epping, Essex is the woman who had to sit in judgment on the latest act of yobbism featuring Jack Tweed, the man who Ms Goody married in her £700,000 magazine stunt.
His crime this time was a violent attack on a taxi driver for which he will be sentenced on March 26.
Tweed committed the offence while on bail for another vicious assault in which he attacked a teenage boy with a golf club.
He was sentenced to 18 months for that attack and was, shamefully, released in January after serving just four months on condition that he wore an electronic tag and obeyed a strict curfew at his mother's home.
Justice Secretary Jack Straw for some inexplicable reason lifted that curfew in order that the 21 year-old yob could spend a wedding night with his 27 year-old bride.
That presumably encouraged Tweed to attempt to use the plight of his dying wife in an attempt to get a lenient treatment from the court in Essex. His solicitor asked for a six-month delay in sentencing.
But the chairman of the bench was, quite rightly, having none of it.
She decided the case should proceed "as normal".
This means the vile thug will be behind bars when the life of his wife comes to an end.
Presumably he will only be allowed to attend the funeral handcuffed to a prison warder. Unless, of course, Mr Straw steps in again.
Surely this will be another reason why someone in the Goody marketing department - a member of her family or her publicist Max Clifford - will make the decision to hold a private funeral.
Surely her sons Bobby, 5, and Freddie, 4,will be allowed to say goodbye to their mother in dignity and privacy.
Surely this sad, tawdry, voyeuristic saga must be brought to an end.
Or will Jade Goody become the first celebrity in history to have the rights to her funeral sold to the highest bidder?
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George Tyndale - Sunday Mercury columnist
Apparently Max Clifford has already advised "enough is enough", but Jade is determined to keep on going in the spotlight... so who knows. How sick it would be!
Please let Jade's Sadly early death now be an end.
The circus should now be finally over. Yes she showed bravery but was it a greater bravery than that shown by my wife and by so many thousands of others whose lives have been tragically cut short by cancer?
I wish her children all the best but pray that Jack Tweed be treated like any other thug deserves to be treated. Let's recognise that he could not even change his ways for the sake of his dying wife and her children.
RIP Jade.
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Alex
It semms that the violent guy will finally get send where his place is: behind steel bars. Let's see how he likes it there and who is going to attack next. I bet he doesn't have the balls to attack real convicts.
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