Kenneth Noyes

[bednobs]

I heard on hte radio this am that the parole board's recommendation that he be moved to an open prison has been rejected. Good. However, it made me think - his crime was one murder nearly 20 years ago - why is he still in prison anyway? don't get me wrong, he definately should be, but since when do people get 20 years + for murder? Don't get me wrong, i absolutely agree murderers shouldget this type of sentence, but they don't seem to usually get that long do they?

[bazwillrun]

Because they know what a nast piece of work he is...plus a fair few other things they obviously know he was involved with...

[viv41]

That will wipe the smile off his smug face !

[retrocop]

He actually is responsible for the death of two people. He pitchforked a surveillance officer to death and killed another in a road rage incident.
Not a nice man so it is best he stays where he is.

[Baldric]

Does have a bit of form

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Noye

[bednobs]

but surely the sentance is apportioned the the crime to which it relates?

[zebo]

I just heard that he's a couple of miles away in not the toughest prison in the world! Start locking the doors tonight.

[retrocop]

Blunket the Home Secretary set a minimum tariff of 16 years to be served in 2002.

[ToraToraTora]

well they used to get the Saddam shuffle, but these days they seem to get less and less in one of HMHCs so gawd knows really.

[mikey4444]

I think he should be hung by his thumbs for a few years...nasty piece of work.

[EDDIE51]

It was only that he had reached the stage of his sentence where a move to an open jail was possible. There was never a serious chance of it being implemented. ( as I said at the time!)

[EDDIE51]

^^ It is an automatic process, any prisoner coming to the last years of the tariff of a 'life' sentence has to be considered for a possible move to 'open' conditions. In Noye's case that was never going to happen but it still had to be considered. Only the few prisoners on a 'whole life tariff ' will never be considered for transfer to an 'open' jail.
I have worked in an open prison and have talked face to face with murderers serving 'life'.

[Dahlia_Lama]

I watched a documentary on the 'road rage' murder just last week on CSI.

I rather doubt he'll smell the fresh air we smell anytime soon.

[sandyRoe]

Wasn't he charged and acquitted for the stabbing of the police office? It looks like he might be being punished now for that.

[ummmm]

And I worked in a psychiatric hospital that housed murderers and they still go through the process even if there isn't a chance in hell.

[Dahlia_Lama]

sandyroe....I suspect the Police murder was instrumental in his sentence however there are generally two types of murder.

There's murder which is typically unprovoked and has tragic consequences.

There's cold blooded murder, typically by pyschopaths who have no filter.

Noyes is a pyschopath and I hope he's not on Answerbank !

[ladybirder]

I remember the road rage victim's girlfriend at the time of his murder. She was brokenhearted, felt so sorry for her poor girl. Hope she's getting on OK now.

[Dahlia_Lama]

ladybirder...she had to assume a new identity and his parents, who adored her, havn't seen her for almost 20 years. simply because she identified him.

I hope she has maintained a relationship with her own family, they didn't say.

Currently watching CSI...Dale Creegan who murdered 2 policewomen. It's a great channel, if you can get it. It's an eye opener.

[ladybirder]

Oh yes I remember that now DL. Thanks for reminding me.
If there was any doubt about what sort of man KN is, then the fact that she had to be given a new identity after she identified him, should tell you all you need to know.