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naomi24 | 17:30 Fri 24th Jan 2025 | News
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From the BBC website:  Two sets of twins aged 3 and 4 left alone in a locked house whilst their mother went shopping, died in a fire.  The house is said to have been filthy. Poor little kids.  She has been jailed for ten years but is that a fitting sentence?


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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ye7p34235o

As usual so many unanswered questions and missed opportunities. Tragic.

Stockport killer gets 52 years.

She gets 10???

 

The law is truly an ass...

Presumably because the Stockport killer did it deliberately and she didn't.

10 years for 4 little lives?

Is a little life only worth 2 and a half years each?

 

No of course not, there isn't really an answer to this is there. You'd be better placed to make an informed comment on this, prison in this case is just pure punishment and she's probably not quite all there. I'm guessing she's not going to get a nice reception either..

Always in these cases other family members express their loss and grief. If there was a father and grandmother that are so devastated why didn't they do something about these poor children living in a house strewn wiith rubbish and excrement. It's obvious she was a totally unfit mother.

Twas Southport, not Stockport.

She had previously asked for help as she could not cope. I'm not sure that the help was forthcoming.

//You'd be better placed to make an informed comment on this, prison in this case is just pure punishment//

 

Why would I be better placed to make an informed comment?

I would (and have never) left  young children alone to start with.

Like the Southport killer, I dont envy what she is going to now have to endure.

10 years is not enough but it will feel a 100 years from her side of the eyes.

😁😁 I did think don't reply to nailedit as you're always up for a tussle. It was genuinely meant as a compliment, I've seen you have views on the value or otherwise of being sent to prison so was asking what you think in her case?

Bet it wasn't the first time she had left them.  Should be 10 years for each child.  

//😁😁 I did think don't reply to nailedit as you're always up for a tussle//

 

Ah, the joy of text!

cant really gage a written messagage.

Sorry if any offense caused.

She wont have an easy time.

Just wondering where the father(s) was?

 

I listened to the judge summing up this case this afternoon and I swear he said 10 years for each of the children; to run concurrently. He definitely said to run concurrently, so if I miss-heard the length of the sentence, I can't understand what else would be concurrent. 

A bit of an aside from parents killing (allbeit acccidentally) their children, this is my sons childhood friend who killed her mother.

Not surprised really, she was (the mother) a right nut job

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-45766337

“Is a little life only worth 2 and a half years each?”

Actually it’s a bit less than that. She will serve six years and eight months in prison (less 57 days which are deemed served as she spent 114 days on remand subject to curfew).

So about six and a half years  - or a little under 20 months for each child..

10 years for each child to run concurrently is 10 years in total

Surely the real guilty ones are those who were aware but did nothing.   Social Services etc need to start employing more people with some nous, not airy-fairy do-gooders who blithely accept a tissue of lies.

we have had quite a lot on  sentencing on AB - most  of  it  ignored

manslaughter - when you do not intend serious harm ( but may forsee it) - honestly it is all more of the  same

sentnecing council has guidelines and there is  very  little judicial disretion

(because heretofore  the judges went kinda mad with their  gavel an  screamng  - --  rumpole and judgitis

10 years for each child to run concurrently is 10 years in total 

Is that so? Goodness.

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