Soft Sentencing Again!

[barry1010]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11343949/Spanish-teen-15-killed-parents-brother-10-poor-school-grades-jailed-six-years.html

This paragraph intrigues me "If he had been a year older when he committed his crimes, he could have been handed a ten-year custodial sentence. "

Do they mean over 18? Is 10 years the maximum sentence for a triple killing by an adult in Spain?

[THECORBYLOON]

It might well be there are different maximum sentences according to age. That might be, under age sixteen, sixteen or seventeen and longest for eighteen and older.

[barry1010]

This is a shocking crime by any standards, carried out by a 15 year old boy who has shown no regret, who lived with the bodies of his parents and brother for days.

I think the sentence is lenient and it shocked me that if he had been older he could have got 10 years, which is still far too short.

[Peter Pedant]

well what the funicular!
the article goes onto discuss
having a hard and fast rule may lead to injustice ( hang'em high! babies) and you cd judge each case on its merits
too high, then the kids escape bullying, cyber bullying where they clearly know what they are doing...

oops going out

[Old_Geezer]

I think everyone is well aware it happened in Spain, which is why some compared it to what they thought might have occurred were it to happen here.

[barry1010]

Thanks, Corby, that's what I was trying to establish. I know in the UK there is different sentencing for minors and adults but 14 year olds have been given life sentences for murder, such as Daniel Bartlam

[davebro]

shoulda shot him with the same rifle - damn savage...

[wolf63]

Maybe a fifteen year old can't be tried ad an adult but he can be at sixteen.

Disclaimer: I didn't read the entire thread because my head is hurting enough already.

[Peter Pedant]

oh the thread is
English Law is MUCH better than spanish penal code so why dont they try him a/c English Law

and in the deleted sections ( do mods read what they delete or is it - o god I havent deleted for 5 mins so sozza this one goes?) I argue plausibly that English Law isnt that good and Spanish Law may well be better

hunnuz er hunters - cazadores - are a tribe by themselves

[Peter Pedant]

Is there any spanish criminal law left on this thread
or has it all gone down the bog?

as the Answerbank tag is - do you know the answer to this?
yeah well dont bother to answer !

do mods READ what they delete?

[Peter Pedant]

Maybe a fifteen year old can't be tried ad an adult but he can be at sixteen.

yes