Comments on: Another great day for British “justice” - 2

By: James

James — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:42:25 +0000

The post points out that the two crooks in question were apparently small fry who didn’t actually contribute much, and that at least one of them was too pigshit-thick to know any better anyway.
Looks a bit different when you consider that, doesn’t it?

By: Big Fella

Big Fella — Sun, 25 May 2008 20:55:02 +0000

WTF??? This is a disgrace but why doesnt it surprise me, this happens all over the country at the end of the day if these b*s**rds are in jail they cannot commit offences against the general public, the longer they stay there the safer the public will be, the judicary need to remember they might just free the person that kills their son/daughter!!!

By: whoppermacbig

whoppermacbig — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:22:50 +0000

Typical Daily Mail readers responses.Incararating people almost indefinitely simply isn’t the answer. It doesn’t work in the USA and it won’t work here. What we need to do is look beyond what these guys did there must be a deeper cause, Especially if they were born during the Thatcher years. The government has today sured up the banks with £50 billion pounds. If that sort of money was spent on benefits or improving low wages.These kids wouldn’t be rotting unecessarily in prison. When I do a court file I always put on the points to assist that the court should always listen very carefully and act on the probation services report.Flinging everyone in jail isn’t the answer the sentences should have been cut further, but well done to the judges to have the balls to treat these lads fairly despite all the baying for blood!

By: Reg Pither

Reg Pither — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:55:39 +0000

I think you’re being a little harsh on these two young whipper snappers. I mean, they were thoughtful enough to DRIVE these women to the cashpoints when they could easily have made them walk or take the bus. It’s good to see such courtesy and good manners in our young people.
Also, it was nice to see that they waited until AFTER these ladies had done their shopping. Could you imagine how upset the ladies would have been if they had been beaten up, kidnapped, robbed, terrified and then had to go home with nothing to make their menfolk for tea?
Come on, who can honestly say that as young boys they did not scrump for apples, ring doorbells and run away or rob, kidnap and mentally cripple for life defenceless, lone women?
Yours,

K Noyes,

Parkhurst,

Isle of Wight.

By: No faith anymore

No faith anymore — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:36:36 +0000

These judges do not know the meaning of crime (and, believe me, I have intimate acquaintance with one). A bit of trouble and the police are soon around to sort things out. The more corrupt get their problems banged up on a whim. They really do not know what it is to experience crime and the way it is dealt with by the CJS for the vast majority of us ordinary, law-abiding, decent folk.

Cutting sentences is not the way to go. When are all these do-gooders going to realise that there is a hard-core of evil - yes, evil, even though I’m not a religious person - in some people that cannot be eradicated or dealt with by excusing and exonerating and softly, softly? Some people are just plain thoroughly bad to the core.

And this defence of drunkenness…? I’m astounded. It was drummed into us when I did my LawSoc CPE that drunkeness was NEVER a defence, that the offender had a choice and the responsibility for getting drunk in the first place and therefore created the conditions whereby s/he offended and thus was liable. This is much more than a dangerous precedent - it flags the open floodgates for any and every drug of choice offender to plead not guilty and get away with murder; it flags a massive sea change in English law. And yet another one that favours the criminal at the expense of the victim. It’s yet another type of case that the lazy, incompetent CPS will refuse to take on because they ‘can’t be ’sure of getting a conviction’.

By: Vigil Anti

Vigil Anti — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:55:50 +0000

We live in a society where the only people who are important are the poor criminals, who for social, mental or drug related reasons cannot possibly be guilty of criminal behaviour, and should they even be considered guilty the “do gooders” jump up and down demanding rights for these poor people.

Get real, why sentence them to protracted jail sentences if they are found guilty beyond resonable doubt the only sentence possible capital punishment, it eliminates repeat offenders and prison overcrowding.

By: Legal Eagle

Legal Eagle — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:21:30 +0000

Lord Juctice Dyson…. well known within the legal community for making bizarre and totally insane decisions.

Wonderful when you’ve got a senile Judiciary isnt it…

By: Blueknight

Blueknight — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:52:13 +0000

This happened in Sussex -

A man who savagely beat his gentle landlord to death has been cleared of murder - because he was drunk.

Darren Blackley, 29, kicked, punched and stamped on 50-year-old David Wilson even using a child’s cricket bat in the attack.

But he was found not guilty of murder after a jury accepted that he could not have intended the murder as he was inebriated.

Victims groups and legal experts last night warned the verdict was a “dangerous precedent” which could see thousands of violent criminals using alcohol abuse as an excuse.

By: PC Common Sense

PC Common Sense — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:15:58 +0000

Vigilantes? Not far away I fear!!

By: TheBinarySurfer

TheBinarySurfer — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:32:39 +0000

Tsk tsk commenters - didn’t you know that the laws have changed apparently today - it’s ok if you terrorised people as long as you’re sorry…

Apparently.