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Re: Judge releases child killers
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Originally Posted by Sirius
More like
WEAK on Crime TOUGH on the victims of crime. 
Labour are as much use as a lighthouse in the desert
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Don't blame the judge, as (from the Mail) -
" But last month the Court of Appeal quashed the manslaughter convictions.
They again appeared before Judge Warwick McKinnon, but this time at Croydon Crown Court where they were given the supervision orders....
.... the boys were given 12-month supervision orders for violent disorder."
They were being sentenced for the violent disorder crimes - he was probably following the Government's guidelines, which is all he is allowed to do (otherwise another appeal happens).
As the DI in charge of the case said " That is in no way a criticism of the judge, that's a criticism of the law that doesn't allow a stiffer sentence."
We should be angry at the lawyers, who put the case that (again from the Mail) - "Lawyers said the conviction for manslaughter was not safe, arguing that Mr Norton's death could not be laid at the boys' door because the pensioner had a heart condition – he had a triple bypass in 1977."
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