Should This 94 Year Old Have Been Jailed?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3161043/71-years-helped-Nazis-kill-300-000-Jews-bookkeeper-Auschwitz-finally-faces-justice-German-court-delivers-verdict-om-Oskar-Groening-morning.html

/// While none of the victims were able to recall seeing Groening at the camp, he was charged with being accessory to the killings because he was essential to the running of Auschwitz. ///

Perhaps if they could find the camps electricians, plumbers etc, they should also be jailed?

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

/// Interesting point janbee - and it chimes with my belief that justice does not operate a sliding scale of reduced tenacity depending on the passage of time. ///

That is not the impression you made regarding the IS child executioner.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// Not really sure why it took 70 years for him to tried. If he had been convicted in the late 1940's, there would have been no nonsense about him being "too old" to go to prison. ///

Well he wasn't convicted so why the nonsense of him being sent top prison now?

[mikey4444]

The only reason he wasn't sent to prison 70 years ago is that he wasn't tried in a court of law, despite there being plenty of evidence that he should have been. But he has now, and nobody is saying that there has been a miscarriage of justice.

This guilty man has had a life of freedom for all of that 70 years, which is something that was denied to 100,000's of other completely innococent people.