Every householder's worst nightmare': Burglars who tortured an elderly couple by breaking the wife's toe with a SLEDGEHAMMER and attacking the husband with pins as they threatened to cut off their ears are jailed for 15 years
John McCarthy, 35, and Richard Leslie, 37, were among a gang of four who targeted the elderly couple in their home in Coton, Cambridgeshire, in November 2014. Mail.
This sentence just will not do! Evil men torturing people in their own household? - A minimum sentence of twenty years served barely touches on achieving basic justice.
In essence and intent, this was an act worse than a great many murders.
I wonder if the CPS will bother to appeal it?
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