It'll be fine

Contacted Victim's Support re my brother's house. Here's part of their reply:

With it’s [the exclusion zone] removal the offender will know that this must mean you no longer live at the address, so would have no reason to go back there. He has no way of knowing that the person living at the address now is in any way associated with you.

In any event, the offender has not indicated any ill feelings towards you his victim and remains on licence, which means he is liable for recall to prison should he commit any further offences.

I guess they are right about my brother, no reason to guess otherwise. I should still tell him, just in case he once again pulls the daft trick of not locking his house. By now he should have got much better security. He won't have done of course, but eh.

I am particularly impressed by the way the offender has not indicated any ill feelings towards me. As I understand it, most felons find little subtle ways to flag up any negative emotions:


I am trying hard not to be amused by the board's assumption that if he did have 'ill feelings,' he'd share them. Of course he would. When explaining himself to the parole board he would definitely say 'obvs if I get smacked up on the outside I may want to knife her, but apart from that I'm totes over it guvnor.' Such heart warming honesty would recommend itself to all but the hardest hearted, shame on me for doubting him! OK, seriously, being a bit unfair I guess, for all I know he is a perfectly decent person now. Or at least not stupid enough to set himself up for old age in prison as a sex offender.

Anyhooo.

Moving on, waking this morning with a temperature and a really weird taste in my mouth. Had some bread and pate, tasted peculiar. Temperature has come down. Little cough, also not around right now.

It's probably time for a test.

On to the govt's web page! Give those details, NHS number, NI number, address, age, symptoms, everything... And then just before the end, apparently I have to consent to a private company called TransUnion accessing all this data. Who are TransUnion? (https://www.transunion.co.uk/about-us/about-us) Why should a US credit checking company have access to my personal/medical data? Why should any tech company have access to supposedly confidential patient information? A friend of mine had the same problem, but as TransUnion can't find a credit report for her, she can't have a test sent to her home. This is gruesome stuff. A UK citizen's right to medical help has nothing to do with their credit rating! What the hell is this?

I am not touching this nonsense. Am I giving these people my private information to get a home test? No. I'll do the drive-in thing if I can or I will just stay home. The whole thing is creepily intrusive.