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What Kind Of A Message To Other Criminals Does This Sentence Send Out?

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sandyRoe | 08:06 Tue 04th Mar 2014 | Law
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In my opinion he should have received a public flogging and then have been transported in chains to a life of penal servitude in the antipodes.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/burglar-who-posed-as-a-police-officer-to-carry-out-terrifying-raid-on-oaps-home-avoids-jail-30059451.html
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Inbelievable that it doesn't warrant a custodial sentence.
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A local radio station DJ has been on a bit of a hobby horse about crimes like this. And here, when one of the criminals is caught, he gets a suspended sentence. I guess Stephen Nolan will have something to say about this later today.
Id does seem a perverse judgement. Pleading guilty should affect length of sentence at most. Despicable crime. Makes one wonder at the judge's explanation of their decision.
I'm with you Sandy, but for good measure I'd remove his breeding capacity. No point polluting the gene pool.
Let's hope there's a review of the sentence and he'll be told to bring his toothbrush.
Agree Mosaic - I was thinking of circumcision as well.

what about pulling all his teeth out without anaesthetic ? - not only that but the teeth have a resale value as a gri-gri in Southern Sudan ..... the victor of the Battle of Dongola ( 1826 ) 's personal physician underwent such a fate.
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Jesus wept - the sheer idiocy of this sentence and the flawed, rose-tinted, reasoning behind it defy all rational belief.

Stuff like this turns me from a reasonably moderate, humanitarian, 'tree hugging leftie' (© AoG and others 2009-2014) into a hanger/flogger/disembowler of the first water.

Just shoot the vile little fecker and improve the world for the rest of us is my considered response.
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OK. Maybe public flogging and transportation, castration, or shooting aren't condign punishments. But then, neither is a suspended sentence.
Suspended sentence? suspended from a scaffold perhaps?
Beyond belief that there was not an immediate custodial sentence.
That is disgusting! There are no mitigating circumstances.

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