18Years Only For Murder ?

[tamborine]

Why not life for the coward ?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/imran-douglas-murdered-margery-gilby-2710738

[EDDIE51]

The sentence IS life, that is compulsory for murder. The 'tariff' is 18 years which the Mirror neglects to mention.
The process of review of the sentence cannot even start until the tariff has been served. in reality this person will serve a lot more than 18 years.

[emmie]

but it wasn't manslaughter, there is no mitigating circumstances, is it simply because he is young, i don't know, but if this was my mother i would want him to spend his life in jail, 18 years if he does serve that, it may seem long, but she no longer has a life as this bstard took it in a callous, brutal manner.

[bazwillrun]

@Fred

i didnt say theyd be fooled into letting him out early, i just intimated that it would be at the earliest possible ie 18 years

[FredPuli43]

Sorry,baz, I thought you were thinking that the pre-tariff rules could apply, given enthusiasm and ingenuity by the parole people. That's why we now have tariffs. Before there were lifers who'd persuade the parole people that it was really only a tiny murder in the heat of the moment, and they were really quite lovely people themselves, who had never done so much as nick a car, and anyway they'd only killed the wife or some personal enemy and they hadn't got any more of those. Result? They did less inside than some burglar who'd nicked some jewellery from a posh house, like the one the judge lived in.

And a death is inevitably hard on the family. I can say if somebody murdered , or killed when driving recklessly and drunk, my daughter, I'd be saying that hanging would not be good enough !