Does Anybody Think That This Louse Is Abusing The Appeals Procedure ?

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-32818373

Perhaps I have this wrong but isn't it the case there has to be grounds for an appeal, for an appeal to be allowed ? The BBC link doesn't say why this is being allowed to go forward.

If New Judge is on tonight, perhaps he can enlighten me.

[sandyRoe]

He might be appealing against the length of his sentence.

[mikey4444]

Yes...perhaps you are correct Sandy.

[DTCwordfan]

Mikey, he is entitled to ask, you shouldn't be advocating a closure of equity in common law - that is a basic right of ours. However, it doesn't mean that it will be granted and, remember, they, the review judge/panel oft have the right to increase the sentence too, so it works both ways.

[wolf63]

22 years isn't very long for such an awful crime from someone that we should be able to trust.

I thought that you said Louise instead of Louse and thought that he was about to have a sex change.

[mikey4444]

DTC...I am suitably admonished ! I have no wish to see our rights under the law to be curtailed, but now that you have mentioned the possibility that his sentence can be INcreased, then I say...go right ahead !

Wolfie...due to problems using the vast breadth of the English language on AB, louse is about as far as I thought I was able to go ! You may substitute any word of your choosing !

But I am still unclear about the mechanism under which an Appeal can be heard. It can't be that everybody sentenced for anything is allowed to appeal, as our Courts would be held for many years ahead. I am hoping NJ can tell us under what grounds an appeal is normally allowed.

[DTCwordfan]

lol, wolf - makes me wonder what we could sub into folks' names - you could be come woof and mikey, milkey.....

[DTCwordfan]

here's the chapter and verse on it! http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/a_to_c/appeals_to_the_court_of_appeal/#a02

pc sorted out, turned out to be the drive for the touchpad....and that unlocked Word as well.

[wolf63]

we could create a whole new dictionary of insulting adjectives that the AB filter can't understand.

This guy has not been an opportunist but has had to power to keep a child as a patient so that he could abuse him.

He really is a lower life form than a Louse.

I am off to give Frankie his Prednisolone tablet - if I survive I will speak to y'all tomorrow.

If I don't it is just as well that I signed my will yesterday.

[DTCwordfan]

have a good evening, wolfie....

[mikey4444]

DTC...good to hear that your PC troubles are behind you. It drove me mad last week, when I was trying to get my Kaspersky to work properly. I am glad I changed over to Norton....for one thing, my PC boots up much quicker every morning than it ever did before. I also did a full scan of both my machines and Norton found loads of things that Kaspersky should have seen but didn't.

[EDDIE51]

This could backfire on him. The appeal could just as easily result in an increase in sentence . When you appeal the sentence is looked at by another judge ,they may decide it was too lenient not the other way about!

[Peter Pedant]

// you shouldn't be advocating a closure of equity in common law //

dTC this actually means something in Law but I dont think you intend it

There is virtually no Equity in Criminal Law - lots of it in Land Law tho' where it is often taught as a kinda appendage.

and just to make things worse

I dont think Victorino Chua did it either - the trial is over so I can comment and I think he is headiing for an acquittal

[DTCwordfan]

I thought the case was about this so called Myles Bradbury not some Italian-Chinese guy called Chua.

I am lost, explain, but then I guess that's why you carry your AB name but, like I say, some elucidation to your point would be appreciated.

[THECORBYLOON]

The Court of Appeal will increase a sentence only in cases referred by the Attorney General because it is felt the original sentence was unduly lenient.

If the Appeal Court feels an appeal is without merit, they can order that a period of time already served in gaol is to be disregarded so that it is tagged on to the original sentence. They have not increased the sentence but it means the prisoner spends longer in gaol so the effect is the same.

[jno]

it does just say appeal against sentence (ie length of), not against conviction. I rather suspect he's wasting his time, but he's entitled to.

[andy-hughes]

Peter Pedant - //... dont think Victorino Chua did it either - the trial is over so I can comment and I think he is headiing for an acquittal //

Not for the first time - what are you talking about?

[andy-hughes]

I believe the appeal against a sentence is a legal right, so it makes sense to exercise it, although as advised, it could result in a lengthier sentence.

A central plank in the thought processes of a paedophile is that he or she is not actually doing anything wrong. They do not see the victim as a victim, but as someone who is aware of their actions, and encourages the abuse that they suffer.

It is of course utterly incomprehensible to anyone with a rational mind, but it does chime with a large part of human nature, which is to deny responsibility for big or small things, where to take responsibility means to acknowledge bad behaviour - as in -

"I was only ever trying to give people a good time ..." Al Capone.