On 30/12/2011 19:01, furnessvale wrote:
On Dec 29, 8:38 pm, ian wrote:
On Dec 28, 5:01 pm, wrote:

When did you see anyone, let alone these scroats,
get anywhere near these sorts of tariff.

I don't have access to a complete set of sentencing outcomes. And
nor, I suspect, do you. The Daily Mail doesn't report all trials, you
know,

ian

I have never read the daily wail in my life but I did serve as a
police officer for more than 20 years. I never saw anyone get the
maximum for any offence (mandatory life for murder excepted). Some of
the offences I dealt with were truly horrific and I often wondered
just what a villain had to do to get the maximum. Then of course
remission, release on licence etc kicks in to reduce things even more.

George


A few years I read a report in an American newspaper of a very case
where a woman was abducted from her house at gunpoint, taken out of the
town into the woods where she was stripped and repeatedly raped and
abused. She tried to run away and was shot at. She thought she had
been hit and lost consciousness but when came around found that she had
not been hit. She managed to find a road and flag down a truck that
took her to the police.

The attacker was charged with a long list of offences, found guilt of
them all and given long sentences for each one to be served consecutively.

The local reporter was unsure of the total sentence so rang the judge
who was also unsure and had to get out a piece of paper to total them
all up! I think it was about 70+ years so the offender would be about
100 before he would be able to ask for release.

When I read this I wondered about what would happen in the UK. There
would be one charge and quite possibly not the most serious one. He
might get "life" but there seemed a good chance he would be out in 10 to
15 years.