He'll definitely be "doing the numbers", though even in segregation there is a hierarchy of offence and, if he's sent to a large prison like Barlinnie, he'll be "segregated" with dozens, maybe hundreds, of other inmates, so fingers crossed!
LiK, I presume there was a reason that the charge of murder, and another of attempted murder, were not proceeded with. I have no idea what they were, as I don't know anything about Scottish law.
I do suspect, though, that in Scotland as in England murder involves intent and the defendant did not intend to kill the child.
I'm guessing that the prosecution could not prove intent, which is neecessary for a charge of murder.Under culpable homicide the maximum penalty is life imprisonment which this low-life should received.
Of course he should be charged with murder. Why would you inflict such force on a baby if you didn't intend to murder it?
Stupid laws and stupid sentencing.
YMB: "He'll probably be on the NONCE wing Jim, so unless a door gets forgotten to be locked ...." - some of those prison officers can be very careless leaving doors open and nonces alone on the landing etc.
Come on - by his own admission he hit and violently shook his seven-week old child to such an extent that it suffered a skull fracture, a bleed to the brain, a serious brain injury and fractured ribs, leading to its death in hospital two days later.
Nobody in their right mind can seriously find any mitigating circumstances here. Who gives a toss if his intention was not to actually kill the child. If the prosecution couldn't actually prove intent to kill, then the sentence should definitely have been a full life term.
That’s the whole problem. The judiciary. I don’t always admire ‘ things’ about USA but, I do wonder what sentence this person would have had in an American court ?