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Originally Posted by scastle
Errm, as stated earlier, Australia is perfectly within it's rights to extradite this guy back here. He IS a UK citizen.
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Exactly, we can complain about it all we like but as I put in my thread title we are getting our rubbish back. He is a UK citizen unfortunately and since he never took Australian citizenship we have no choice but to allow him back into the country.
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Originally Posted by scastle
Several people appear to be criticising Australia for doing that (including some people who are all for us extraditing criminals that don't have UK citizenship).
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Again a good point, we would do exactly the same in their case.. well we would if the EU or the Court of Human Rights would allow us to. Some people seem to forget just how this country got rid of it's criminals a long time ago
Didn't we send them somewhere??
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Originally Posted by scastle
As for the death penalty. I'll admit, if a person abused a child of mine, I probably would want to kill the ******* as slowly and painfully as possible, but, the death penalty itself clearly does not work (look at the US for evidence of that)
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The death penalty may look like the ultimate deterrent to some but as the stats show, it doesn't always work. This has a lot to do with criminals still believing that they can escape detection and therefor they won't have to face the penalty for their crimes. If the detection rate for all crimes were around the 90% mark a lot less people would risk commiting a crime in the first place.
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Originally Posted by scastle
We need to find a way to stop these people abusing in the first place, not to kill them after they have done it. Killing the abuser will not correct the damage done to the abusee. Preventing them being abused would ensure the damage was never done though.
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Prevention is the best cure as they say but how would you prevent someone from becoming a paedophile or a rapist? We are a long way from that moment in time I fear
