Chop Your Wife Up Into 224 Pieces And Only 19 Years

[youngmafbog]

Yes I know (for the usual)- it says life, but it isnt is it?

This is one that should swing IMHO.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13284193/Evil-husband-murdered-wife-chopped-224-pieces-dumped-remains-river-bag-life-jailed-life.html

[smurfchops]

There is something to be said for capital punishment.  Shame this country is so soft.

[jno]

I'm against capital punishment but in favour of transparency - life should mean "life", not "19 years". The American formulation of "19 years to life" at least tells you what's happening.

As to whether you should get a longer sentence if you chop someone up into 224 pieces than if you don't, I think probably not: the sentence is for the murder, not for what happened later.

[barry1010]

I doubt very much he will in released after his minimum term, we shall have to wait and see.

There are lifers still inside who have been refused release six and more times

[youngmafbog]

//I think probably not: the sentence is for the murder, not for what happened later//

For me its more about the danger to the public.  Someone who is not only willing to murder but chope them up into tiny bits is not going to change.  Totally different to a Crim de passion for instance.

[youngmafbog]

//I doubt very much he will in released after his minimum term, we shall have to wait and see.//

Too many do-gooders about I am afraid.

String him up, he wont do it again.

[retrocop]

He will plead insanity later on or voices made him do it. He also took perverted pleasure in killing the pets. A real sicko.

Yes he has been convicted and now ought to swing for it.

[Khandro]

Think of the guy who had to count the bits!

[ToraToraTora]

I have mellowed on capital punishment of late but this sort of thing reverses that.

[barry1010]

If he does go down the insanity route he will spend the rest of life locked up with people more twisted and evil than him.

[sp1814]

"He will plead insanity later on or voices made him do it. He also took perverted pleasure in killing the pets. A real sicko."

As he's already been convicted it's irrelevant what excuses he will may or may not make at a future date.

But 19 life *does* appear lenient.

[youngmafbog]

//I have mellowed on capital punishment of late //

I hope you are not becoming a Metropolitan Liberal TTT.

[retrocop]

// If he does go down the insanity route he will spend the rest of life locked up with people more twisted and evil than him.///

Do you think hat's possible?

[Canary42]

retrocop;  "A real sicko.......now ought to swing for it."

So you're in favour of euthanasia for the sick. OK,  just as long as we know.

[ToraToraTora]

15:20 not yet!

[youngmafbog]

A typically idiotic commie style statement.  You know very well what Retro meant.

[retrocop]

        //As he's already been convicted it's irrelevant what excuses he will may or may not make at a future date.

But 19 life *does* appear lenient//.

 

There are appeal courts and possible parole boards to consider. I have no doubt there are a few Lord Longfords still lurking around

[retrocop]

I wont argue  with you canary as you are obviously so stupid you will beat me with your experience.

[jackthehat]

Hopefully, in 2043, the parole-board will decide to keep him locked up for the remainder of his life.

We won't know until then.

[jno]

I'd be okay with it if he was really locked up for life, ymb. The idea of him being free again when he's only 47 isn't good.

While I agree it's not a crime of passion (not that this is a defence in this country anyway, at least not officially), it is in one sense: he killed his wife. Wife-killers aren't usually going to be a danger to the public at large.

[barry1010]

There are wife (and husband) killers who in a flash of temper stab their spouse once, or push them down the stairs. Or One impulsive minute and it's over. 

This man is in a different league entirely.