Stuart Hall ?

[anneasquith]

as above, do you agree his prison sentence should have been doubled ?

[Mattk]

..and then some.

[anneasquith]

sorry folks, I cant do links !!!!!!!!!!

[Mamyalynne]

http://news.sky.com/story/1120594/stuart-hall-has-prison-sentence-doubled

[sir.prize]

He will serve one month for each offence . . . hardly a punishment in my view.

[anneasquith]

mamy, im going to call you the '' link lady '' :)

[Mamyalynne]

Been called worse Anne.



Yes I agree with the increase - is it enough ? No.

[tonyav]

I'm glad it's been doubled, still don't think it's enough though.

[Old_Geezer]

Whilst the original judgement seemed lenient I am convinced it was arrived at using the usual process of applying the sentencing normally given at the time of the offences, and taking into consideration the guilty plea and other circumstances. I'm not going to stick up for the man after learning what he did, but I don't think that changing the judgement/sentence was obviously the right course either. Still 1 year 3 months, or 2 years 6 months, I'm not that fussed which is applied.

[jno]

they made one of the sentences run consecutively rather than concurrently

[hawksley]

If you go back to what the punishment was when the offence was commited all those years ago. If someone was to have commited murder in the fiftys,and been found guilty now. Would they now face hanging.???

[Sharingan]

Lol, interesting point Hawkesley:)
As far as Stuart Hall is concerned I think he should have had his sentence increased to 5 years since some of the offences involved children as young as nine.

[emmie]

so do i.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm guessing not wrt hanging since that act is now considered to be against human rights which would trump usual practice.

[jno]

you could probably sentence him to hanging, you just couldn't actually hang him as there aren't any gallows or any hangpersons. The Home Secretary would have to reprieve him.

[emmie]

no to hanging, we don't do that now, however his crimes are nasty and i definitely think he should have done 5 years.

[ichkeria]

The principal of going by the sentence at the time of the offence I believe only applies if the sentence at the time was more lenient. Sort of the same principal as not being tried for doing something which wasn't an offence at the time it was 'committed'

[hawksley]

molesting young girls ,one of them only nine years of age is now considered to be against human rights also ,Aog.

[Spoonboy]

He should also be castrated!

[grumpy01]

Meanwhile,Jimmy Saville remains dead.

[grumpy01]

At 83 spoonboy I don't think it would serve any useful purpose.