Friday - June 10, 2011

guy rapes, gets out of jail and … yeah. does it again. law and disorder.

As happens so often here, an article of maddening content comes along and even before I post it with my own take and or anger, one of our regulars posts a comment or two that’s right on the mark, on the subject of crime and punishment. Or as in this case, a total lack of it.

It’s this kind of thing that makes so many people have zero respect for the law and the courts.  In fact, there’s even more proof of that.

Recently, a young burglar broke into the home of an 80 year old woman with health problems.  She was sadly subject to strokes and she had one and died.
Since the criminal couldn’t have been aware of her condition, they didn’t bring manslaughter charges against him, and he was originally sentenced to 6months. So he went on Facebook and bragged about his short prison term.
Here’s what he wrote.

Liam Cunliffe , Is a happy bunni all I can say. DROPPED!! YAA X
The big 1 yaa haha x
Im only looking at 6 months haha bring it on easy! x

He ended up with two years and was quite surprised by the change of his term.

Here’s a comment from our Wardmom that sums up what many feel.

Meanwhile the killers and criminals are running amuck in our society - and then given plea bargains to get out of jail in no time at all. Tell me why at all a paedophile should ever, ever be released back into a society populated with children - or a murderer? Time in jail does nothing to ‘rehabilitate’ them nor make them less of a threat to innocent people. Kill them and free the people to not live in fear or danger. Toss the terrorists into that - and a few politicians - and the world would be a much better place.
Wardmama4

I suspect the majority of law abiding citizens feel the same.  But hell. Who listens to them?  It’s enough of a headache for politicians to keep their election war chests topped up, without having to worry about the petty concerns of those who are most at risk.

So anyway, here’s our latest WTF were they thinking.
Take a look.

Rapist released early attacked new victim within weeks

A rapist who was freed after serving just half his sentence sexually assaulted another woman weeks later.

By Mark Hughes, Crime Correspondent

Fabian Thomas, 23, was released in December last year after serving four years of an eight-year sentence for rape. He struck again in February, attacking a woman in a supermarket car park.

The Home Office is now investigating the case. It comes just weeks after Kenneth Clarke, the Justice Secretary, had to apologise following his defence of Government proposals to halve prison sentences for rapists who plead guilty early.

He suggested that some rapes were less serious than others. A Home Office spokesman said a review would be carried out into how Thomas was managed while on probation. But women’s groups and politicians seized on the case last night as an example of the consequences of letting rapists out of prison early.

Sadiq Khan, the shadow justice secretary, called on the Government to clarify its position on maximum sentences.

Angie Conroy, of Rape Crisis, said: “Letting him out early was an accident waiting to happen.”

Thomas’s first offence was on New Year’s Day 2006 when he twice raped and threatened to kill a girl, aged 17, in an alley in Taunton, Somerset.

He was sentenced in December 2006 to eight years in a young offenders’ institution. In December 2010 he was released and on Feb 20 he committed his second attack, when he attempted to rape a woman, aged 19, in a supermarket car park while brandishing a hunting knife and wearing a balaclava.

He admitted the attack at Plymouth Crown Court on Monday and will be sentenced at a date yet to be set.

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Posted by peiper     on 06/10/2011 at 09:38 AM   
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