Acid Attacks - An Appropriate Sentence For Those Convicted

[sp1814]

I'm thinking that anyone found guilty of such attacks should face a minimum of 20 years.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/brixton-acid-attack-sister-of-victim-18-sprayed-by-noxious-substance-on-bus-pleads-for-end-to-a3833961.html

The reason I believe this is appropriate is that point of these attacks is to permanently affect the victim, but not to kill them - just to ruin the rest of their lives.

What do you think?

[woofgang]

I don't think there should be "special" tariffs depending on the weapon used.

[jourdain2]

sp has a point here. The intention is to ruin lives, make people uncomfortable for perhaps 70 years. Definitely nasty. It could undermine self-confidence etc. -- in fact the more I think about it, the more horrible it is. Decided that I agree with the O.P..

[-Talbot-]

Yep, a minimum of 20 years.

[wolf63]

I can understand a twisted person deciding to disfigure someone they know - that's bad enough.

But to use acid on a stranger takes a special kind of evil illegitimate-person.

Twenty years sound like a good starting point.

[naomi24]

The longer the better. Throw away the key as far as I'm concerned.

[marval]

I agree with Naomi, lock them and never let them out.

[david small]

This travesty of halving sentences is ludicrous. Sentence ten years, serve ten years no appeal. Adjusting by ten percent for good behaviour.

[davegosling]

We really are a bunch of wimps in this country. There is no ambiguity whatsoever as to the guilt in this case. The perpetrator does not deserve to live. All the lily-livered woolly liberals who claim that capital punishment is not a deterrent make me sick. If the aggressor in this case knew for a fact that, if captured, tried and found guilty, would hang by the neck until he was dead, I do not for one moment believe he'd have gone through with it.

[Theland]

Life with no parole. Why would we ever allow them out?
I am sure with a bit of imagination we could come up with a cost effective prison system that took these baddies out of circulation forever.
If the USA can implement " Three Strikes" then life, why can't we? But one strike. Imagine the terror amongst the baddies when some of their friends had disappeared for good?
We are too soft.

[Theland]

At the very least, the scum should serve the full tariffs and have time added for bad behaviour, not reduced for being manageable.
And an extra ten years for being a Muslim.

[emmie]

i totally agree, a despicable crime to be sure.

[NoMercy]

I'd be in favour of a minimum term of 30, or even better, 40 years in prison.

Prisoners should be made to earn their keep too.

[waterboatman]

A minimum of twenty year behind bars with no parole.

[waterboatman]

That's equal to forty years with standard parole.

[murraymints]

agree... throw away the key..

[EDDIE51]

The sentence should be the same as if a gun or knife was used in the attack. GBH with intent or Attempted Murder. There are strong suggestions that 'acid' is being used as the weapon of choice as the sentences tend to be lower than if a gun or knife was used.

[murraymints]

heinous crime indeed..

[youngmafbog]

We need a good hard look at all sentences for attack, particularly with a weapon. Acid, knife or a gun should not matter and I would go along with the 20 years min for all the above as long as it is that, nothing off and no parole.

I agree with the post above on halving of sentences. It should be stopped, if you dont behave then time added.

We do need to build some proper prisons to house these people though, they need to be efficient and just enough to avoid human rights issues although I still favour outsourcing to Thailand or Turkey where they know how to run a jail.

I am also getting fed up of headlines blaring out what seems to be an appropriate only to find it is a total for a group and its divided amongst them.