Judge Slams Away A Gang Of Romanians For A Total Of 82 Years.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/387867/Keep-out-judge-tells-Romanians-as-gang-is-jailed-for-82-years

/// In a fierce broadside, Judge Timothy Pontius said the UK was no “soft touch” and insisted courts will come down heavily on “imported” crooks. ///

Can we but hope that Judge Timothy Pontius is not just talking for himself?

[pdq1]

Rather than filling up our jails I wish we could send them home to serve their sentence in their own country.

[pdq1]

I wonder if Cameron has forgot his promise made a couple of years back.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327586/Foreign-convicts-sent-home-stop-overseas-inmates-clogging-jails.html

[boxtops]

and why not, pdq?

[jake-the-peg]

And yet we make heroic films of British criminals committing robberies in Italy!

Do you suppose they were only meant to blow the bl**dy doors off?

[emmie]

ah but that was film, not real you know. These horrible blokes should serve the full term, then be deported.

[jake-the-peg]

Are you suggesting British criminals don't operate abroad?

Or that they're somehow a better sort than these sledgehammer wielding thugs?


I was just highlighting the irony about certain sorts of crime dramas where the victims are r

[jake-the-peg]

(excuse me)

Victims are rich and the theives are good looking and daring!

Wonder if they'll be showing the Italian Job again over Easter

[emmie]

only you could twist this, it was a bloody film, again.

as someone said shame we can't deport them to their home country and they serve their sentences there. There are British criminals in jails abroad, you then get the bleeding heart brigade bewailing the fact they are in harsh jails with local criminals, like the recent case of the woman who was found with kilos of drugs in her suitcase. Come on have some sense.

[emmie]

from a couple of years ago, so who knows the actual figures.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8493551.stm

[FredPuli43]

HHJ Tim Pontius would have imposed the same sentences on British criminals doing the same thing. He said as much, did he not, referring to deterrent sentences for home-grown and for foreign criminals alike?

Who has been putting it about that Britain is a soft touch for criminals? Any newspaper? HHJ Pontius has had to disabuse foreigners, if they believe that

What is clear as that there's a lot more wealth here than in Romania and therefore that nation's criminals will look to this country for profit, as gangs from poorer countries always will. Native criminals in wealthy countries can afford to stay where they are.

[zebo]

I too hope that The Italian Job's on TV over Easter jake-the -peg, we seem to have the same sense of humour! The British original, naturally, no foreigners.
I'll now strive to remove my tongue from my cheek.

[emmie]

don;t believe JTP was joking, he rarely does.