Saturday
26Apr2008
GUESS THE SENTENCE..
Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 09:46AM First off, consider the crime.
Shane Owoo, 16, was frogmarched to a pool for a "punishment swim" by two men in their twenties who accused him of stealing a bicycle. He was forced into the flooded clay pit while his attackers, who were described as behaving like vigilantes, beat him with sticks and stones until he drowned.
Now, guess the sentence? Christopher Lewis, 22, and Marvin Walker, 21, convicted of this crime will be free in only two years.
Absolutely pathetic. What price a life in the UK these days - two years I guess.
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Sometimes I wonder why we don't have reciprocal punishments for these violent creeps - if you beat someone with a stick, you get beaten with a stick.
Scandalous, but typical too. Obviously the judge did not think the victim's life worth a decent sentence on the violent scumbnags who killed him.
They commited premeditated murder and got two years, these are the same courts that the left want to use to fight terrorism... were all doomed
Yeah
I wonder if the victim had been a judge's son, would the sentence have been different?
Good point Peter.
I bet they would have thrown those guys under the prison if Owoo had been a judge's son.
I doubt it. So much of our judiciary actually believe these sentences are tough.
I think that their definition of toughness would be a much longer suspended sentence.
Charles
I remember reading about a particularly nasty case here in the UK about a gang on a housing estate who had kidnapped and tortured a teenager because he had refused to buy drugs of them. They had held him for several days pouring boiling water on him and smashing his legs with a hammer and numerous other acts of violence. It only stopped when one gang member feared they would kill him and she left the flat and told the police. At the end of the trial sentencing was deferred but the judge warned the defendants he would be imposing a 'sunstantial custodial sentence' and he actually spoke quite strongly about the depravity and evil of this case. I remember about 2 months later the papers reported the sentence . The judge had decided on sentences between 18 months and 3 years. Substantial ??
Here's three reforms that would make a difference:
1. Abolish remission - sentence given = sentence served.
2. All sentences should defaut to maximum: murder = 30 years.
3. Sack all the current judges. Make their replacements sign up to 1 and 2 above.