This has really rattled my page
Hull funeral director imprisoned for 20 years for not burying a number of corpses
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...rt-bush-jailed
Now this is an horrendous crime which would have caused massive distress to a lot of people who he would have also defrauded but that is all and he got 20 years
My issue is when I do searches for averages of other crimes
"The average sentence for rape in the UK varies by region and year, but generally falls between 5 and 10 years in custody, with a typical range of 4 to 19 years depending on the specific circumstances of the offense"
"The average custodial sentence for the rape of a child under 13 in England and Wales has risen significantly, reaching 13 years and 8 months in 2025, up from 8 years and 9 months in 2010"
Ok firstly I do not get why the child rate figures are lower than the rate of an adult figures but both are less than this funeral director got
Now Manslaughter
"The average custodial sentence for manslaughter in the UK is approximately 8.8 years, a figure that nearly doubled from 5.4 years between 2007 and 2017. While the maximum penalty is life imprisonment and the minimum can be a community order, most cases result in fixed-term sentences typically ranging from 2 to 10 years. "
again lower than both rapes and substantially lower than what this funeral director got
It makes absolutely no sense to me. How can fraud and not burying the dead carry a higher sentence to raping a child? how messed up is that
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