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How did Jeremy Forestt get 5 and a half years and Stuart Hall only a year??
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I guess it was age and frailty which should not be a factor.
Thunder Bolt
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A guilty plea gets a discount because it means the victim & family don't have to face the trauma of a trial.
ali jenkins
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Hall only got 15 months because that was the punishment at the time the offences were commited. If he had done it now then he would have got a lot longer
martyn20
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One case has nothing to do with the other and should not be compared, also the Hall sentence will rise
Brian Fantana
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It is natural that people are going to compare the outcome of them both, given that they are both sexual cases. You can't really argue with the fact that it does look a bit odd that Hall's sentence was so comparatively light.
martyn20
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Well there is a girl and man involved that's about all they have in common.
stripeyshark
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This. Thread closed please!
So if someone had committed murder in say 1965 but through modern techniques in DNA they were only traced and convicted now, would they be hanged because that was the punishment when the crime was committed?
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dougdeep
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Good question sir.
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Brilliant question. As a lot on here say the punishment for hall is because it was committed under laws back then, then I will love to see people hanged.
Stuart hall got a total of 114 months for 18 offences (different sentences for each count), but the sentence for each is being served concurrently (at the same time), with longest for any one offence being 15months, none of them being for having sex with a child (it was mostly over the clothes fondling), with the last offence being 25 years ago, no evidence of offence since then when he claimed he became celibate. http://www.courtnewsuk.co.uk/?news_id=33371
Forestt got a total of 22 years (4.5 years for each) for five counts of sex offences to be served concurrently, plus one year for one count of abduction to be served consecutively after the others). His offences were considered worse because he is a teacher, in a position of authority over her, having occurred more recently with no reason to believe he would not re-offend if he were allowed to remain free. http://www.courtnewsuk.co.uk/newsgallery/?news_id=33440
Forestt got a total of 22 years (4.5 years for each) for five counts of sex offences to be served concurrently, plus one year for one count of abduction to be served consecutively after the others). His offences were considered worse because he is a teacher, in a position of authority over her, having occurred more recently with no reason to believe he would not re-offend if he were allowed to remain free. http://www.courtnewsuk.co.uk/newsgallery/?news_id=33440
dougdeep
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Hall definitely got off too lightly. His actions with 18 girls might well have blighted 18 lives.
There were 13 victims.
dougdeep
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Ok. Allegedly.