Skull Cracker On The Run

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27280228

Am is missing something here ?

This thug at the Old Bailey, in 2002, received 13 life sentences for robbery and 13 concurrent five-year sentences for possessing an imitation firearm. The judge said that he must serve at least 8 years He has now walked out of a open prison, because somebody let him out !

Its difficult to know where to start here, but why, if he was given 13 life sentences and 13 five-year sentences, did the Judge say that he should serve a minimum of 8 years ? If the Judge thinks that he only deserved 8 years, what was the point of all those life sentences ? And why was he allocated to an open prison ?

The mind boggles !

[ludwig]

// Quite how somebody who had gone AWOL before can be “…reasonably trusted not to try to escape” is a little curious to say the least. //

They obviously asked him if he'd try to escape again and he promised he not to.

[naomi24]

Mikey, if you're missing something, then so am I. I give up.

[Prudie]

So within a day of escaping he holds up a building society allegedly. So much for rehabilitation and being prepared for release.
Pathetic