…just
why firms don’t want to
hire people with a criminal record. It must be prejudice, mustn’t it?
Whilst in prison drug dealer Stephen Owen was selected to work for key cutting and shoe repair company Timpsons as part of its scheme to give offenders a second chance.
Bolton Crown Court heard he had worked at the shop in Market Street, Bolton, for less than three months when he let himself into the building on the night of January 13 and raided the safe, taking £360, three watches and two phones belonging to customers along with 18 Zippo lighters.
But he couldn't help it! He has poor impulse control!
Martin Pizzey, defending, said the theft was a spur of the moment decision.
He added: “He did not plan to break the trust of his employers or make a mess of the chance he had been given.
“He acted very foolishly and regrets that very much.”
Yes, I'm sure he does regret ... getting caught.
Owen, a father-of-one, had been released from jail part way through serving a three year prison sentence for dealing heroin.
Sentencing Owen to six months in prison for the Timpsons burglary, Recorder Karen Brody said that dishonesty was “deeply ingrained” in him.
Just as excessive leniency is ingrained in the court system.
Ideal job on his next release would be something in sewerage disposal. Little shit shouldn't be tempted to take his work home.
ReplyDeleteWhy, oh why, in cases like this, isn't the remainder of the original sentence added to the punishment?
ReplyDeletePenseivat
XX let himself into the building on the night of January 13 and raided the safe,.....the theft was a spur of the moment decision.XX
ReplyDeleteAye, right, because on his way home from the pub this KEY MAKER(!)just, "on the spur of the moment" found both the shop door AND the safe open.
Why, oh why, in cases like this, isn't the remainder of the original sentence added to the punishment?
ReplyDeleteIt is.
Well, technically, what happens is that if you are out on license and breach the conditions of your license (like by committing another offence) then you are (possibly after one or two warnings) recalled to prison to serve the rest of your sentence.
The article is vague about timings but assuming he had been working for three months starting immediately after the release at the halfway point, then he will still have been on license and will currently be spending the rest of that three-year sentence in prison.
What isn't clear from the article whether the six months for burglary will be served concurrently with the rest of the sentence for dealing, or added on the end of it.
But he will certainly be spending the rest of the original sentence in prison.
They are training criminals in keymaking now?
ReplyDeleteSometimes I think we're locking away the wrong people.
"Why, oh why, in cases like this, isn't the remainder of the original sentence added to the punishment?"
ReplyDeleteWell, I hope anon is right...
"Aye, right, because on his way home from the pub this KEY MAKER(!)just, "on the spur of the moment" found both the shop door AND the safe open."
A most fortuitous happenstance, I'm sure...
"Sometimes I think we're locking away the wrong people."
'Those whom the gods would destroy', etc...