There have been some amazing stories in the past week about how our police, courts, prisons and various jobsworths think justice should be applied. There was the woman handed a fixed penalty notice for feeding ducks; the mother followed home by an off-duty policeman and reported to social services because she threatened to smack her young child who was misbehaving in a supermarket; the man who found a gun and took it to the local police station and now faces at least five years imprisonment for being in possession of a firearm; the pregnant woman who called the police about a speeding car which nearly hit her and who was reported to social services because the policeman who visited her saw she was in the middle of redecorating; the murderess, described as dangerous, who escaped while being allowed out on a shopping trip after just two years in custody. The list goes on.

But this one tops the lot:

An immigrant convicted of the horrific killing of a 17-month-old baby has been given £4,500 by the Government as a ‘bribe’ to leave the country.

Malaysian Agnes Wong, 29, was jailed for five years in 2008 for the brutal manslaughter of a toddler she was supposed to be child-minding.

She was let out of prison in July this year, and two weeks ago was put on a plane at Heathrow and sent to Malaysia with a ‘voucher’ worth £4,500 to spend when she got there.

Wong was jailed after a court heard how she had swung the boy, Hugo Wang, by his ankles and smashed his head. He died of brain injuries.

Can you bear to read any more?

She was accused of waging a ‘regime of terror’ against him, torturing him with a hairdryer and hitting him so hard with a ruler that it snapped.

Hugo died in January 2007, a day after he was taken, unconscious, to hospital where he underwent emergency surgery.

He had been struck with such force that his brain had shifted in his skull and caused internal bleeding. Doctors also found bite and burn marks on his body.

Wong, who denied murder, was found guilty of manslaughter but was sentenced in May 2008 to just five years in prison.

Who is the ‘Justice’ Secretary? Oh yes, it’s Jack Straw.