A judge has admitted taking “an exceptional course” in not sending three vigilante attackers to jail.
Now that
does make a change!
Judge Christopher Compston said the trio lured Thomas West to a Wallingford car park before attacking him with a metal ratchet after their victim had robbed an autistic man in the town.
Ah, maybe they get a pass for taking revenge for a 'hate crime'? Is that maybe how this is going to work?
Last September, the judge deferred sentencing of the three defendants for six months and said he would not jail them if they raised £500 each in compensation.
Huh? Now, we're paying blood money?
Judge Compston said: “There is no question at all as far the guidelines are concerned you should be going to prison, and for quite a long time, I’m absolutely aware of that.
“But equally I make it quite clear I’m going to take an exceptional course. The main reason is the background.”
He said Mr West had committed “a most horrific attack” but told the trio: “You were utterly and completely wrong for taking the law into your own hands.
“To send you to prison you will only come out worse, not better.”
But isn't modern prison supposed to be a place of rehabilitation, judge?
Let the games begin...
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For as long as the Police continue to deliberately alienate the public by willingly permitting themselves to be used as political "pawns" ..
ReplyDeleteFor as long as the Judges & Magistrates continue to hand down perverse & derisory sentences ..
For as long as the Criminal Justice System continues to ignore the real victims of crime ..
For as long as the Politicians & their friends in the Legal profession continue to get rich from the creation of more & more useless, pernicious & intrusive Laws, which ignore the needs and wishes of ordinary people ..
I can see more & more people taking a pinch of "natural" justice, whenever & wherever they can .. as its the only kind they're ever likely to see ..
(Not that I for one minute condone it, of course) ...
I've long thought we'll see far more 'taking the law into our own hands' as the decline continues...
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