They will not do it next year

[HARPY]

All the ones caught taking part in the troubles should go on one of these trips.
This will teach them to get their parents to save some of their benefit money for the summer holidays.

http://www.dailymail....vision-programme.html

[piggynose]

mmmm

[Pinkypie]

I wonder if I use threatening behavior and set fire to my staff room bin, my boss will take me out for a nice cup of tea and a muffin?

[HARPY]

Half hour on the Naughty Step and day out at Alton Towers for Pinkypie.

[Ankou]

its disappointing, as i know several families who cannot afford to go to alton towers. but their methods seem to work, 93% of youths who go through their programme don't reoffend.

http://www.wakefield....eases/news/PR2841.htm

[HARPY]

Ankou are those figures for 12 months if so time will tell.

[ummmm]

It's just the Mail trying to get people up in arms about soft Britain. The people who believe everything the Mail writes will now be disgusted that this is how the rioters and looters are going to be treated...

It's not..!

[HARPY]

ummmm what punishment will they give a 9 or 10 year old ?

[Gromit]

It is a bit like corporate looters who have taken £billions from the nation's coffers, and then are rewarded with obscenely huge bonuses.

[HARPY]

Agree 100% with you Gromit.

[ummmm]

If they can identify the 9/10 year olds I would guess the parents will be getting a visit.

They will be treated the same as any other 9/10 year old that commits crime.

[HARPY]

Good answer ummmm so you have no idea what punishment they will get but you got you Anti Daily Mail rant in.

[ummmm]

You can hardly call that a rant now, can you?

What will happen to them is the same as what would've happened had they committed a crime this time last year.

Can't go changing the rules/laws to suit...

[Ankou]

a child under 10 is irrefutably presumed to be incapable of committing an offence.

10 upwards they can face a custodial sentence via the youth court. in certain exceptional circumstances they will be tried as an adult (e.g. jamie bulger case)

[HARPY]

Thank you Ankou hence you get an 8 year old to carry the looted goods. The Untouchables

[ummmm]

Being a bit dramatic now...

[HARPY]

ummmm it is what the drug dealers do. Not in the Mail, Not from a friend of a friend, this was from a house near mine.

[Ankou]

no, if an 8 year old is with an adult in the process of committing a crrime, then there is procedural precedent.

perhaps you should look at the finite details in the youth justice system

http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/yjb/

[HARPY]

Ankou if you were from a poor family and wanted a new mountain bike would you not collect some money from a car and then hand over a little package.
Think about it all you have to do is that and keep your lips sealed.

[ummmm]

There is a reason children under 10 cannot be considered culpable.

The law is there to protect them from the type of people you mention.

[Ankou]

its what some of my schoolmates used to do in the 80s.