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Originally Posted by Hugh
The sentences weren't just for shooting the police officer in the face - from the OP link
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Given your point of view, I suppose it could've been worse then.
As they could've been sentenced for:
conspiring to shoot a police officer,
conspiring to conspire to attempt to shoot a police officer,
conspiring to conspire to shooting a police officer,
conspiring to aiding an abetting a convict with the intention of shooting a police officer,
conspiring to conspire to aiding and abetting a convict with the intention of shooting a police officer,
and finally - shooting a police officer.
Oh please...
The same could be applied to any other crime.
Such as the random murder example I gave earlier.
Conspring to murder, attempted murder, etc etc
The fact remains that courts are routinely dishing out far lesser sentences for far more serious crimes. I'd wager that if PC David Rathband had been a pedestrian rather than a police officer, the trio would out in 5 yrs or less.