Mrs Gardner said she felt the sentence should have been tougher.
She said: “The sentence is nowhere near long enough. He endangered lives, had no regard for human life let alone animals, he also had no regard for the law.
“He will be in jail, get three meals a day and allowed to have what he sees necessary to make him comfortable. It’s not a sentence, it’s a reward.
“I have no time for people who flout the law. I’m sure he will be out in under ten months.”
The justice system in this country should be investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority...
All sentences to run consecutively, banned from driving for life, sued by each passenger and the rail companies. That seems about right as a starter. Being made to spend the rest of his miserable life as a penniless bankrupt should help concentrate his mind and those of his ilk.
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Cannot the judiciary understand that a properly tough punishment laid on one individual is a deterrent to dozens or possibly hundreds of others - thus saving them from themselves and also saving law-abiding people from their potential depredations?
ReplyDeleteWe have truly become a perverse people.
"Being made to spend the rest of his miserable life as a penniless bankrupt should help concentrate his mind and those of his ilk."
ReplyDeleteMaybe we need to bring back the concept of 'outlawry'..?
"We have truly become a perverse people."
And we show no signs of being able to reverse the trend.