Good!

[hc4361]

http://www.dailymail....d-life-sentences.html

[emmie]

a pair of hate filled loons. But if you read it, says x many life sentences, then adds must serve x years. Not will spend the rest of the their lives in jail.

[hc4361]

A minimum of 9 years is better than a slap on the wrist though.

[emmie]

i agree, but all the same, when i heard this on the radio this morning, the announcer said x life sentences must serve 9 years, slap on the wrist maybe not, but once they are out, what then.

[rich47]

They must serve a minimum of 9 years before being eligible for parole.
It does not mean they will automatically get out after 9 years.

[emmie]

Rich47, good morning, perhaps, but this situation isn't right. If a judge said 20 years, and you do 20 years, no get out of jail free card because you have been a good boy, then fine.

[rov1100]

The term Life sentences should be reviewed. Not only do they not mean life but to be given 4 life sentences makes you think he has been reincarnated 3 times. Its also a sop to those agrieved as they can be let out before the case is even cold.

[hc4361]

If somebody is given a life sentence and is subsequently released after serving x amount of time, he is on licence for the rest of his life.
ANY breach of the licence and he is back inside, 'recalled to prison'. No trial, just straight back in.
He can only live at approved addresses, must report to the probation officer regularly, must allow the probation officers access to his home.
He must get permission to be away from home even for one night.
He must ask for permission before travelling abroad, and this permission is rarely granted.
Conditions of licence can include being barred from certain areas, being barred from associating with certain people, being barred from doing certain types of work and there may be a curfew.
So it is not exactly freedom.

[anotheoldgit]

Market-stall traders to doctors, I wonder how many more are hiding under rocks, ready to emerge or accidentally be discovered?

[Brenden]

When we had a referendum on the death penalty being abolished it was on the understanding that a life sentence would mean life - what's happened?.

[emmie]

Brenden, as we know, a lot has changed since that time, not all for the good.