On What Planet Should This Savage Have His Term Reduced?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-39001788
Some leeching lawyer proclaims the minimum term is excessive, right oh, knock for year off! What is this? Compare the market.com? These judges are getting out of hand.

[jno]

vulcan, what do you think of Myra Hindley, who wouldn't tell anyone where bodies were, and left families without closure for decades? Is it worth encouraging defendants to do as this one did instead? Or not?

[mushroom25]

"I've murdered your daughter but I've left her body where you can find it".

"oh that's all right then, fair enough".

[EDDIE51]

One of the reasons that Ian Brady got a 'Full Life Tariff' was that he refused to say where the bodies of his victims were. So leaving the body where it would be discovered can be a reason for a more lenient sentence no matter how perverse it sounds. It means the crime was less serious than if he had gone to great length to hide the body.
23 Years is still among the longest tariffs ever seen for a single murder so it can not said to be 'too soft' !
TTT the judge is not 'getting out of hand' he is only amending the tariff imposed by the original judge that has been agreed to be out of step with similar cases.

[EDDIE51]

fender62 Read my previous answer
An offender sentenced to 'Life' can only ever be released 'On Licence' he/she can never be fully 'free'. They can always be recalled to prison if they break the terms of their release licence. So in this sense 'life' does mean life! there are cases where someone has been 'on licence' for up to 30 years and still recalled to jail.

[ToraToraTora]

"The lawyer is not 'leeching' " - there is no legal requirement for a "lawyer" - in law - under any circumstances, in fact , they operate only on human misery, to make money out of misery of the general public. The entire profession is a disgusting parasitical apperation. I never use these parasites.

[Mamyalynne]

What does that word mean please?

[ummmm]

If humans didn't create misery...etc etc..

[ToraToraTora]

quiet right ummm, unusually you are correct, congrats.

[ummmm]

Hey...I'm right now and then :-)

[EDDIE51]

TTT who is saying 'crim scum' are popular?
I abhor everything this person had done but that does not stop me pointing out reasons for the reduction in tariff.
fender62, possibly I am the only member of AB who has actually met and talked to several murderers.( I was working in a prison education dept.) They all told me two things in common. That the death penalty would not have deterred them and that the murder was a 'one off' due to exceptional circumstances.
Believe it or not if you had not known they were murderers you would have never have suspected it from talking to them they appeared and acted as if they were 'totally normal'!

[Mamyalynne]

Oh thank you -looked like typo to me.


Popular? Not amongst people I know, still you may move in different circles.

[ummmm]

No you're not, Eddie, I've met plenty of them too, and rapists, paedophiles, kidnappers...

[Prudie]

Has anyone sat and thought of the time and deliberation it would take you to stab someone 146 times? That is not the act of a one-off angry person. The man is unbalanced and should spend the rest of his life in Broadmoor.

[EDDIE51]

Purdie ^^ that is exactly why he will be VERY lucky to get parole ever!
I keep trying to point out that just because an offender is eligible to apply to the parole board it does not mean they will get it!
The board will need to be certain that this man is no longer a threat before they will consider release on license. Many prisoners have been repeatedly turned down for parole despite applying many times over many years!

[ummmm]

After 23 years there's a good chance he'll be institutionalised and will never be fit for release.

[EDDIE51]

^ You and me both Divebuddy! ;-)