Five Years On

Almost exactly five years ago I wrote about Jason who had enlivened one of my sittings by escaping a minute after I had told him that he was going inside.
He was on the court list again today, but not in my courtroom. Five years on he is still at it, still on drugs, and his latest escapade involves the alleged theft of an I-Pod (an electronic music device, m'lud). He's thirty next month. It's hard to see a future for him.