Sure, I think we mostly agree and you're quite right on this point. Clearly someone convicted has to serve a sentence, which comes with various restrictions, but I don't think that should have bearing on any new trial, and I think their rights should not otherwise be curtailed in trials on other offences, otherwise you get something more like the three strikes laws in the states, where once convicted it is far more difficult to be redeemed.

I think RIPA came about more as a way to make the work of investigators of terrorism easier, and it was just badly written and too broad.