Does this sentence fit the crime?
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...er/7245418.stm

No wonder people do this sort of thing!

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From the news article
"The court heard how Barnett was warned four times that he would be prosecuted if he carried on running brothels."

Huh?

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So he'll be out in two or less.

Hopefully everything he owns will be confiscated, although I'm not holding my breath. He'll still be living the high life once he's released.

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Given the misery caused and sums of money involved he got off very lightly in my opinion. But there's nothing new in that is there........ :mad:

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definitley not he should be strung up by the goolies.

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Way too lenient imo but sadly what we have come to expect these days.

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...and having got away with it for so long and been handed a virtual slap on the wrist he won't be tempted to get straight back into the business will he.... :rolleyes:

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Legalise and regulate brothels.
Finally sex would be taxed!

Seriously though, if it was legalised and regulated (OffSex anyone?) the women (and men) could get proper protection, the vice squads could concentrate on trafficing and underage prostitution, and hopefully better protection for customers.
Course it would also help get them off the streets so kids wouldn't have to walk to school over a sea of used condoms like in some areas.

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In our house it already is!!! :cry:

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I think legalisation of prostitution is long overdue to be honest. While i do not partake of the ladie's service i think it is silly and old fashioned that we still class it as a crime. If the lady is happy to sell herself and the man is happy to purchase her time and pleasures i don't see the problem. I also believe it would lead to a better standard of life for all concerned then the current situation. How much police\court time would be freed up by legalising it maybe even prison spaces not that knowledgeable on the subject to know if people go to prison for it.

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Agree 100% - doing that would help prevent scrotes like the guy above from exploiting vulnerable people.

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Speaking of sentences fitting the crime you could get a result like two crims up here who'll be shaking with fear at the thought of the justice system coming crashing down on them.

They'd driven up from England in a dodgy unregistered van, broke into a BT depot and got caught red-handed with 8k worth of cable in the back of the van plus a bunch more waiting to go on the back, which already had 'scrap' they couldn't account for in it.
So caught red-handed, both with previous for crimes of dishonesty and guess what they got?

£200 fine each. To be paid off at £5 a fortnight as they are both on incapacity benefit (well enough to lift heavy chunks of metal :rolleyes: )

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime eh?

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That makes me sick to be honest Derek as an incapacity benefit claimant and as a law abiding person. No doubt they will probably claim they are "depressed" as the reason they claim that benefit. It is a joke and while some on here bemoan it i truly thik it is time for draconian sentencing for all crimes. Also we need to cut the amount of rubbish our police officers have to deal with so they can be out doing the job they signed up for and catching these sort of people so they can server those sentences. As for "tough on crime tough on the causes of crime" well after 11 years of new labour is there anything else to say about that little promise :shrug:. Before someone jumps on me about the depression comment i know it is a serious illness when people have it i also know how easy it is to claim it to get benefit and it is those people i am having a go at not the genuine claimants.

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Yeah but if they'd been locked up they wouldn't have been able to steal the gear to pay their fines!! :mad: