It’s hard to comprehend what it must be like to awake every morning with a sense of impending doom over what the day will bring.

A distinct possibility that your life will be ripped apart by events out of your control.

It’s a burden the Rollinson family have endured for some time now.

After their husband and father, bus driver Keith, was killed by a drunken 15-year-old whom he barred from boarding his vehicle in Elgin.

Everything seems stacked against them.

Incredibly, the cowardly thug who carried out the relentless and frenzied beating was given a relatively soft sentence – despite his savagery and a serious aggravating feature that he had attacked a different bus driver previously.

Just four years and four months.

But the family dread that any day now he’s poised to be freed under the Scottish Government’s early-release policy, having served less than half that, in what has been described as a “holiday camp” care centre for young offenders.

On this evidence, the government seems to go out of its way to protect young thugs while throwing victims and their loved ones to the wolves.

Just to rub salt into the wounds, First Minister John Swinney and his bus minister Jim Fairlie refused in the last few weeks to guarantee that the........

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