So Why Do We Entertain This Sort Of Thing?

[youngmafbog]

This piece of scum should have been strung up, yet he is whinning about a 33 years sentence (which should have been life if no capital punishment)

It's already cost us, the tax payer, 400k in legal aid. Surely this is just a ploy by scum lawyers getting rich off the tax payer and low lifes?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3518927/Stepbrother-murdered-dismembered-teenager-Becky-Watts-launches-second-appeal-against-33-year-jail-sentence.html

[mushroom25]

just to be pedentic, it IS a life sentence he is serving. the time tariff of 33 years is the first opportunity he'd have of being considered for parole.

[chelle7272]

Even further grief for the family. Awful.

[Unsureme]

Presume He will get more Legal Aid.

[CrapAtCryptics]

He would not be granted leave to appeal unless either an error in procedure had been noted or additional new evidence was found.

[chelle7272]

He is not appealing the charge, just the length of sentence

[ToraToraTora]

dunno YMB but look at my thread about the murder of that school kid and you can see that murdering criminal scum seem to hold a fascination for your spoon fed lefty types. so expect a lot of semantics here rather than any sort of condemnation for the lowlife in question. Life should mean life, all this BS about parole yada yada is unhelpful at best. Throw the kin key away, end of.

[Mamyalynne]

A truly horrific crime, can see no grounds for appeal to the length of sentence at all , a disgrace that the tax payer has to foot the bill for this and other cases.


Until we have a legal system that //'throws the key away, end of'// we are stuck with the system we have.

[viv41]

He murdered a lovely young girl, cut her up into pieces and lied to save his skin and he expects a lighter sentence than 33 years - deluded fool !!!

[ChillDoubt]

There's never a metal flight of stairs and a bar of soap around when you really need them. ....

[retrocop]

Good to see the majority here agree he is commited a horrific crime and we should even 'throw away the key'.
Suitable case to be hung then wouldn't the same people agree if Capital punishment still existed? Naa I suspect not.

[Mamyalynne]

As long as whoever soaped the stairs promised to serve their time and not appeal.

[Mamyalynne]

A rather large 'If' Retrocop, doubt it will ever return.

[retrocop]

Mamyalynne
Sadly we will probably never find out in my lifetime.

[Mamyalynne]

Nor mine.