Top 125 DJ SG Walther, Cape Town #Charts #Top40 #hits #hitlist

DJ @SG_WALTHER TOP 125		04 August 2014
		CAPE TOWN
songs arranged alphabetically per playlist ranking
Highest	Song	Artist
	Top 10 Playlist
Top 10	It was always you	+Maroon 5
Top 10	Caution to the Wind	+Becky Hill
Top 10	Chocolate	+The 1975
Top 10	Crumbler	+Jungle
Top 10	Faded	+Zhu
Top 10	Ghost	+Ella Henderson
Top 10	Glow In the Dark	+The Wanted
Top 10	Hideaway	+Kiesza
Top 10	Ink	+Coldplay
Top 10	Solo Dancing	+Indiana
Top 10	Time	Jungle
Top 10	The Big Bang	+Katy Tiz
Top 10	Waves (Robin Schulz Radio Edit)	+Mr. Probz
Top 10	Way we are	+Kove / Melissa Steel
	Top 25 Playlist
Top 25	Always	+MK
Top 25	Always in my head	Coldplay
Top 10	Brand New Day	+Kodaline
Top 25	Conversations	+Woman's Hour
Top 25	If U Got It (Radio Edit)	+Chris Malinchak
Top 10	Latch (feat. Sam Smith)	+Disclosure
Top 10	Lift Off	+Conor Maynard
Top 10	Midnight	Coldplay
Top 10	My Love	+Route 94 /Jess Glynne
Top 25	Okay	+Holy Ghost
Top 10	One	+Ed Sheeran
Top 10	Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)	+Clean Bandit
Top 10	Tough Love	+Jessie Ware
	Top 40 Playlist
Top 40	24 Hours	Sky Ferreira
Top 40	Another's Arms	Coldplay
Top 40	Busy Earnin'	Jungle
Top 25	Cool Kids	Echosmith
Top 10	Fall For You (feat. April)	Kings of Tomorrow
Top 40	Here for you	Gorgon City
Top 10	Hold On, We're Going Home	Drake
Top 40	Hoyle Road	Pedestrian
Top 10	I Got U (feat. Jax Jones)	Duke Dumont
Top 40	Maps	Maroon 5
Top 25	My Head Is a Jungle (Radio Edit)	Wankelmut & Emma Louise
Top 10	My Love	jj
Top 40	My Silver Lining	First Aid Kit
Top 40	Nature Trips	Eyedress
Top 10	One More Day	Example
Top 40	Paper Trails	Darkside
Top 40	Permission to Love	Hayden James
Top 40	Pumped Up Kicks	Foster the People
Top 40	Red Eyes	The War on Drugs
Top 40	Right Here	Jess Glynne
Top 40	Runaway	sELF
Top 40	Slave to the Rhythm	Michael Jackson
Top 25	So Good To Me Original Mix	Chris Malinchak
Top 40	The Rain	Biffy Clyro
Top 10	Things We Lost In the Fire	Bastille
Top 40	Treasure	Bruno Mars
Top 25	What I Might Do (Radio Edit)	Ben Pearce
	Top 80 Playlist
Top 25	All Around the World	Justin Bieber
Top 40	All Bad	Justin Bieber
Top 80	All you're waiting for	Classixx
Top 10	Animal	Conor Maynard
Top 40	Aviation High	Semi Precious Weapons
Top 40	Back and Forth	Operator Please
Top 10	Back to Love (feat. Jay Sean)	DJ Pauly D
Top 80	Bloodstream	Ed Sheeran
Top 40	Blurred Lines (feat. T.I. & Pharrell)	Robin Thicke
Top 80	Break the Fall	Laura Welsh
Top 80	Call	Francesco Yates
Top 10	Can't say no	Conor Maynard
Top 80	Chain My Name	POLIÇA
Top 80	Cool	Le Youth
Top 10	Counting Stars	One Republic
Top 80	Destination	Nickle Creek
Top 80	Drops	Jungle
Top 10	Dust Clears	Clean Bandit
Top 10	Friend Crush	Friends
Top 10	Get Lucky (Radio Edit)	Daft Punk
Top 10	Good Morning, Sunshine	Shortstraw
Top 40	Happy (from "Despicable Me 2")	Pharrell Williams
Top 80	History (feat. Will Young)	Groove Armada
Top 10	I’ll Show You	Alexander Rybak / Seling
Top 10	If I Lose Myself	One Republic
Top 40	Invisible	FM Attack
Top 10	Kemosabe	Everything Everything
Top 10	Latch	Disclosure
Top 40	Look Right Through	Storm Queen & MK
Top 40	Love Never Felt So Good	Michael Jackson
Top 40	Miss Jackson (feat. LOLO)	Panic! At the Disco
Top 80	Money On My Mind	Sam Smith
Top 10	Need U (100%) Original Mix	Duke Dumont feat. A*M*E
Top 10	Of The Night	Bastille
Top 10	One more night	Maroon 5
Top 80	Paranoia, Ghosts & Other sounds	Safia
Top 25	Please Forgive Me	The Pierces
Top 25	Reflektor	Arcade Fire
Top 80	Reminder	Travis
Top 25	Rude	MAGIC!
Top 40	Self Machine	I Blame Coco
Top 25	She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)	David Guetta
Top 80	Six Degrees Of Separation	The Script
Top 10	Somebody That I Used To Know	Gotye
Top 40	Team	Lorde
Top 25	This Is What It Feels Like	Armin van Buuren
Top 80	Trouble's Lament	Tori Amos
Top 80	True Love	Coldplay
Top 40	Trying to Be Cool	Phoenix
Top 80	Under Pressure	The war on drugs
Top 80	Us	Movement
Top 40	Veil	Samantha James
Top 10	We Are the People	Empire of the Sun
Top 80	Wild Heart	The Vamps
Top 80	You and I	Medina
	Top 125 Playlist
Top 80	Afterglow	Wilkinson
Top 125	All about that bass	Meghan Trainor
Top 10	Am I wrong	Nico & Vinz
Top 125	Angels	The xx
Top 10	Atlas	Coldplay
Top 80	Boom Boom (Heartbeat)	Ray Foxx
Top 125	Bottoms Up	Brantley Gilbert
Top 80	Brokenhearted No Rap Version	Lawson
Top 10	Can We Dance Radio Edit	The Vamps
Top 80	Change Me	Justin Bieber
Top 80	Curse Curse	James
Top 40	Diamonds	Rihanna
Top 10	Don't You Worry Child	Swedish House Mafia
Top 125	Extraordinary	Clean Bandit
Top 80	Flatline	Justin Bieber
Top 80	Glowing	The Script
Top 125	Ishq Da Rogh	SK-1
Top 125	Kingfisher	Phox
Top 25	La La La	Naughty Boy / Sam Smith
Top 80	Leave Me Alone	Alexander Rybak
Top 40	Little Things	One Direction
Top 25	Magic	Coldplay
Top 10	Moon Boots	The Script
Top 25	Nightcall	Kavinsky
Top 125	Nothing Arrived	Villagers
Top 125	One day	Bakermat
Top 80	Paper Skies	Fetish
Top 25	Pompeii	Bastille
Top 10	Reload (Vocal Version / Radio Edit)	Sebastian Ingrosso
Top 25	Roller Coaster	Justin Bieber
Top 25	Save Me	Gotye
Top 40	Scream & Shout (ft. Britney Spears)	will.I.am
Top 40	Shooting Star	Owl City
Top 125	Sideways	Wrabel
Top 80	Summer	Calvin Harris
Top 125	Take yours, I'll take mine	Mathew Mole
Top 40	Till The World Ends	Britney Spears
Top 40	Turn Around (feat. Ne-Yo)	Conor Maynard
Top 25	Vegas Girl	Conor Maynard
Top 40	Wake Me Up Radio Edit	Avicii
Top 125	Wings	HAERTS
Top 25	Young and Beautiful	Lana Del Rey
#charts #Top40 #Top100 #Radio1 #BBCR1 #UKTop40 #Billboard

The curious case of Martin Evans #extradition #MartinEvans

Britain’s “most wanted man” found in South Africa”

+Sky News and the  +BBC have reported that one Martin Evans, apparently Britain’s most wanted man, has been found in South Africa and has been arrested. He is due to face extradition proceedings before a South African Court.

Prison authorities released him on a ‘weekend licence’ whilst he was serving a 21 year prison sentence.

What caught my attention is that the British prison authorities had apparently released him on a so-called ‘weekend licence’ in 2011 whilst he was serving a 21 prison sentence.

 Although I am based in Cape Town, I am a regular viewer of Sky News, and I have recently noted at least two reports on Sky which dealt with British convicts, who had been convicted of serious offences, apparently committing further offences whilst on ‘weekend licence’ or the equivalent.  At the time, it seemed to me that the offences of which the prisoners in question had been convicted did not render them suitable candidates for release on any ‘weekend licence’ programme in the first place. That said, I did not have access to the facts of those cases.

 Reason for ‘weekend licence.’

It has been recognised by those involved in penal systems that convicts who have served their prison sentences or who are released on parole often find it difficult to adjust to the process of their reintegration into normal working and family life. In an endeavour to facilitate the process of reintegration into society, some penal systems provide for a system of gradual reintegration for prisoners due for release or parole. This system usually comes into effect shortly before the actual release or parole i.e. during the latter stages of the sentence.

Gradual reintegration takes various forms

The types of gradual reintegration of prisoners differs from system to system and may take various forms within a system. For example, the prisoners may be permitted to leave the prison during working hours on weekdays in order to take up employment and/or they may be permitted to spend certain weekends at home in order to facilitate their reintegration into family life.

 

Gradual reintegration near end of incarceration makes sense

I support the concept of gradual reintegration of prisoners where it occurs shortly before the prisoner is due for release or release on parole. However, it makes no sense to employ gradual reintegration in circumstances where the prisoners are repeat offenders who have committed serious crimes, or in circumstances where a prisoner has, during his incarceration, shown no or little hope of rehabilitation.

In cases where a prisoner has been convicted of a relatively minor offence which justifies a short prison term, say under five years, then I would not object to intermittent ‘weekend licences’ being granted during the second half of their sentences provided such candidates pose no danger to society and that they demonstrate reasonable prospects of rehabilitation.

Was Martin Evans a suitable candidate for release on ‘weekend licence’?

As soon as I heard that Martin Evans had been sentenced to serve a 21 year prison sentence, I wondered about the circumstances under which he was granted a ‘weekend licence’. I assumed that he had been convicted and sentenced at least sixteen or so years prior to such release (i.e. during about 1995), and assumed further that he was justifiably found to be a suitable candidate for such release.

Curiously, upon investigation, neither assumption was proved to be correct.

Martin Evans was convicted in 2006

I was flabbergasted to discover that Martin Evans had served less than a quarter of his sentence when he was released on a ‘weekend licence’ from Erlestoke Prison.

The reason why this is relevant is self-evident. A prisoner who is released on ‘weekend licence’ towards the end of his sentence, i.e. shortly before his release or before his release on parole, has little or no incentive to abscond instead of returning to prison. By absconding, he would prejudice any parole or early release to which he would be entitled, and, if caught, his actual release date would be postponed due to an additional sentence for his escape. Faced with a choice of returning to jail for a short time longer or living a life on the run, most prisoners would opt for the former.

On the other hand, Martin Evans had a further sixteen years or so to serve when he was released on ‘weekend licence.’ The temptation to abscond, despite the hardships which a life on the run would involve, would have been immense. 

I don’t know whether the decision to permit Evans’s release on ‘weekend licence’ in such circumstances was the result of prevailing penal policy in Britain, or whether it was due to a decision taken by those in charge of Erlestoke Jail. Whoever was responsible, they turned a blind eye to the obvious risk that any long term prisoner released on weekend licence before the majority of his or her sentence has been served, will be tempted to abscond instead of to return to serve the remainder of the sentence.

Were there any other factors which rendered Evans unsuitable for ‘weekend licence’ at such an early stage of his sentence?

The sentence itself

Firstly, Evans was sentenced to serve twenty one years in prison. In anybody’s language, and in almost any penal system, this would constitute a stiff sentence. A British Court would not have handed down such a stiff sentence unless it was of the view that the offences in question were very serious indeed. This alone, in my view, rendered any form of gradual reintegration or ‘weekend release’ to be improper at any stage during the first 75-80% of his actual sentence or at the very least, during the first 75-80% of his reduced sentence, if parole or early release becomes applicable.  

 In particular, Evans was found guilty of two separate serious offences, drug trafficking and fraud. Persons convicted of multiple serious offences are typically less likely to benefit from or respond favourably to attempts at reintegration or rehabilitation, and those responsible for the curious decision ought to have taken that into consideration.

Secondly – Evans had absconded before

Evans was due to face trial in March of 2000 on charges of having defrauded eighty seven investors out of around £900 000. He absconded a few days prior to the trial. Apparently, at the time, he sent a fax to the Court to advise that he would not be attending the trial.

Evans fled to Spain and later to Holland, where he masterminded a drugs and money laundering operation during which he shipped at least £3m of ecstasy and cocaine into Britain

Evans was only apprehended and returned to the UK in late 2001 due to a failed attempt to enter the US on a false passport. He was apparently the victim of increased security measures at US customs following the 9/11 attacks.

Given that Evans had absconded to avoid facing fraud charges, which arguably may have involved anything from seven to twelve years in prison, it was inevitable that he was likely to abscond, if offered the opportunity, to avoid serving the remaining sixteen years of his sentence.

CURIOUS DECISION

 In the light of the above facts, the decision by the applicable authorities to allow this man to be released on any form of ‘weekend licence’, particularly at that stage of his sentence, was foolish and inexcusable. And if it turns out that the prison authorities were operating within guidelines handed down to them by the British Department of Corrections or equivalent, then it follows that those guidelines require urgent review before a repetition of such a foolhardy decision has more serious or damaging consequences.

So far, I am not aware of any critics of the manner in which Her Majesty’s Prison service deals with ‘weekend licence’ or ‘gradual reintegration.’ This surprises me. I wonder whether the curious case of Mr Evans will raise any eyebrows?

SG WALTHER 04 August 2014

Sources & Credits:

BBC.com 16 Aug 2011; The Independent.  +Jack Simpson  03 August 2014 ; BBC.com 4 August 2014 ;Sky News ;News24.com

SEE ALSO:
MH 370
http://siegfriedwalther.blogspot.com/2014/06/mh-370-new-atsb-theory-does-not-exclude.html

AF447
http://siegfriedwalther.blogspot.com/2014/05/air-france-447-bea-whitewash-af447.html

#weekendlicense
 #extradition

#MartinEvans
#parole
#HM Prison Service

see other articles on aviation such as MH370
+Her Majesty's Prison Service