Sunday, May 04, 2014

Max Clifford - Justice?

So. The repellent Mr Clifford got eight years. At first sight, the sentence seems quite reasonable - but was it, within a broader context? 
Earlier this year, a rapist was reported locally as having attacked and raped a woman in a churchyard for which he received the disgracefully low disposal of just four years and eight months. There are myriads of similar examples - just in South Yorkshire alone.
If Clifford got, what is deemed to be a reasonable sentence, then surely people who have committed rapes as described should be receiving thirty years. All sentencing, to some extent, has to be comparative.

Just How Bad Can Labour Get?

 https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2036175/keir-starmer-see-sense