12 Years, Seriously?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-57497845
Another subhuman savage that should never see the light of day again. He'll be out in 6 and able to create more children to murder. Madness.

[anneasquith]

I saw this today. I have no words. A newborn baby’s life is worth nothing .

[youngmafbog]

This one should be strung up or if we cant have that then never let out.

I doubt they will even castrate him to stop the savage breeding again.

[Mamyalynne]

Horrific and no, the sentence does not reflect that.

[pixie374]

Unbelievable. From the link, totally deliberate as well. Not a tragic accident. Shocking.

[JimF]

Perhaps his fellow inmates will be able to do what the judge couldn't...

[youngmafbog]

He'll probably be on the NONCE wing Jim, so unless a door gets forgotten to be locked ....

[Lie-in King]

He was convicted of culpable homicide & serious assault, not murder.

However, IMO it was essentially murder & the sentence should have reflected that & been considerably longer.

[JimF]

He'll definitely be "doing the numbers", though even in segregation there is a hierarchy of offence and, if he's sent to a large prison like Barlinnie, he'll be "segregated" with dozens, maybe hundreds, of other inmates, so fingers crossed!

[jno]

LiK, I presume there was a reason that the charge of murder, and another of attempted murder, were not proceeded with. I have no idea what they were, as I don't know anything about Scottish law.

I do suspect, though, that in Scotland as in England murder involves intent and the defendant did not intend to kill the child.

[dannyk13]

I'm guessing that the prosecution could not prove intent, which is neecessary for a charge of murder.Under culpable homicide the maximum penalty is life imprisonment which this low-life should received.

[Canary42]

///it was essentially murder & the sentence should have reflected that & been considerably longer.////

Absolutely. What are the CPS up to ?

[Barsel]

Of course he should be charged with murder. Why would you inflict such force on a baby if you didn't intend to murder it?
Stupid laws and stupid sentencing.

[ToraToraTora]

YMB: "He'll probably be on the NONCE wing Jim, so unless a door gets forgotten to be locked ...." - some of those prison officers can be very careless leaving doors open and nonces alone on the landing etc.

[JimF]

Come on - by his own admission he hit and violently shook his seven-week old child to such an extent that it suffered a skull fracture, a bleed to the brain, a serious brain injury and fractured ribs, leading to its death in hospital two days later.

Nobody in their right mind can seriously find any mitigating circumstances here. Who gives a toss if his intention was not to actually kill the child. If the prosecution couldn't actually prove intent to kill, then the sentence should definitely have been a full life term.

[JimF]

That was to jno.

[jno]

Canary, as far as I know the CPS's writ does not extend to Ayrshire.

[jno]

JimF

Who gives a toss if his intention was not to actually kill the child

The law does.

[JimF]

And the maximum sentence he could / should have received is life. 12 years is an insult.

[anneasquith]

That’s the whole problem. The judiciary. I don’t always admire ‘ things’ about USA but, I do wonder what sentence this person would have had in an American court ?

[jno]

anne, does "12 years" mean potentially out in 6 as it seems to in England?