Jail Sentences

[sir.prize]

At last judges have imposed appropriate heavy sentences

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2013/05/10/horror-of-telford-girls-sex-abuse-ordeal/

[DaisyNonna]

8 years for rape? How long will be served?

[anotheoldgit]

/// Four experienced judges have heard distressing evidence from four young women, who were aged 13 to 16 when they were abused during a two-year period between 2007 and 2009. ///

That is the difference in this case, the judges were 'experienced' unlike those who generally give out much lighter sentences.

[emmie]

learned experienced judges do give out lenient sentences, perhaps they are having a bad day, or had a bust up with the missus, who knows, there are times when i wish we had life to mean life, this is yet another one of those cases i would send them to jail for good.

[FredPuli43]

I think the , now gone, generation of judges was much tougher on burglaries and burglars than they were on assaults. I saw an Old Baliey judge give a group, all with previous for gbh, 18 months for a totally out of the blue. 'for fun' 18 wounding with intent gbh, when they'd slashed a man from ear to ear with a broken bottle, scarring him for life. Yet the same judge gave a high class burglar 8 years when all the man had done was enter a very expensive house by means of slipping the door lock and had been arrested, in the hall, by a passing policeman who saw him enter.

They weren't that hard on rapists: many got off because of the old corroboration rule anyway and those that went down were judged by judging the victim. "It looked as though she was asking for it, but my client just went a bit too far, as the jury have found" was a valid argument in mitigation of sentence, and found sympathy with judge years ago. Only very violent rapes, and those premeditated and in breach of trust got serious sentences. HHJ Anwyl Davies sentenced an RAC patrolman, no previous, who had attended a woman's car,gone away,changed into ordinary clothes,come back and raped the woman, to life! Premeditated and breach of trust, you see