It is outrageous that in the tortured days and hours leading up to his decision to end his life he had to cope with being widely described in some media reports, not in terms that we would claim to be the basic right of every human being, but as “the beast”. How can any fair minded person take seriously the outpourings of some of our more outspoken journalists about the rights of minorities or their admonitions to those of us who try to vindicate and balance competing rights when they apparently see no cause to rail or whimper against their employers and colleagues who saw a seriously damaged and imprisoned human being, at the bottom of the pile and at the end of his tether, being savagely described as “the beast“?
