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[News] How on earth in anyone's world is this worth only 16 months ?
- Thread starter bha100
- Start date
Sentencing in this country is a complete and utter joke. Needs a total overhaul. I was going to guess that he'd do 5 months and out on a tag. It said 7 but unless that's been given as a minimum sentence then he'll be out before then. Meanwhile there are thousands in prison for minor drug crimes, pissing off a police officer or financial crimes where there was no crime. A very sad state of affairs.
Hopefully the sentence will be taken back for review.
The bullying, cowardly piece of shite will be out in months otherwise.
The bullying, cowardly piece of shite will be out in months otherwise.
darkwolf666
Well-known member
Oh dear, that’s my home town and my mother-in-laws sister...!
Yes, people weren’t happy around these parts, but people have been very generous on the Go Fund Me page set up in her name...
https://www.gofundme.com/f/maureen-...m_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet
Yes, people weren’t happy around these parts, but people have been very generous on the Go Fund Me page set up in her name...
https://www.gofundme.com/f/maureen-...m_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet
That's really nice. Something good from something shite.
I also hope he gets a good kicking inside btw.
That simply isn't true. Depends what you class as a "dealer". The law is shite on this.
Oh and did I "ask for harsher sentences"? No. I asked for a complete overhaul of sentencing because at the moment it makes zero sense.
Great points apart from that. As you were.
- Jan 3, 2012
- 16,583
It was a handbag snatch. For the lawyers and so on looking at this, he did not pull her over, but the fact she did not let go meant she fell over. He pleaded guilty and maybe he was genuinely repentant. I don't know. Maybe it was a spur of the moment unpremeditated thing, none of which makes it any better. If he had been lying in wait for her with a crowbar, it might be different.
And the fact that Covid19 meant her daughter could not give her a hug in hospital is not the bloke's fault.
Yes, he is a scumbag and a low-life, locking him up and throwing away the key is not the answer.
Shropshire Seagull
Well-known member
Would it be inappropriate to suggest a public flogging instead of any prison sentence?
I'd be quietly confident that the probability of a repeat offence would be lower?
But maybe a bit too old fashioned for some?
I'd be quietly confident that the probability of a repeat offence would be lower?
But maybe a bit too old fashioned for some?
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,417
Dumping them out at sea is surely the cheapest and most efficient way?
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Yep this, not to mention the cost of it.
SIMMO SAYS
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A largely 'non violent' crime!
It was her own fault she didn't let go of the handbag! I've read some bollox on this forum over the years but this is a new low.
It was her own fault she didn't let go of the handbag! I've read some bollox on this forum over the years but this is a new low.
SIMMO SAYS
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*spits out beer*
[MENTION=26444]Wrong Direction[/MENTION] and I are setting up #gofundmyboat straight away
Oh of course getting a hiding from the morally sound folk who abide in Her Majesty’s Prisons. I never get that point.
RossyG
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- Dec 20, 2014
- 2,630
They’re not morally sound but some crimes are deemed worthy of a prison beating. It might be done by people who are scumbags, but it’s better than nothing.
dejavuatbtn
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This. Anyone handling an old person like that is in danger of giving them serious injuries. She was lucky not to break a pelvis or leg. Her chances of surviving an injury like that are lower than for most, especially in the current environment. Overall though it’s something you just don’t do or think of doing. It’s disgusting. Whatever the motive.
Personally I think he should have got at least a year inside for that.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
The prison service is in crisis due to privatisation and cut backs. The prisons are full, the probation service was messed up by attempted privatisation, which all has a knock on effect on sentencing.
Judges and magistrates can only follow sentencing guidelines which direct lighter sentences for guilty pleas.
Judges and magistrates can only follow sentencing guidelines which direct lighter sentences for guilty pleas.
I don’t really want shitheads in prison dealing out punishments on behalf of me or any certain type of the populace. Unless of course you think they deserve that right........ to dish out their own justice. Like they of all people have earnt that privilege RossyG