In evidence of his claims, Hitchens told co-host and Mail columnist Sarah Vine, of his own late father's view of the war, who grew disillusioned years after fighting in the Royal Navy.
Hitchens added that the lack of proper policing has wider societal implications, the most problematic being the encouraging of more serious criminality.
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Josie Hitchens terrorised Tim Sheppard, 56, and his wife Elena Garcia-Alvarez, 55, for over a decade after they moved into into their five-bedroom home in Finsbury Park, north London, in 2006.