10 years in prison

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for John Worboys for 19 sexual offences including rape , now released on parole despite strong suspicions he has committed over 100 such offences ??

24 years served by David Blagdon who set fire to some church curtains ??

 

[Doggit]

That was then, this is now; different time zones.

Fortunately, Worboys is still in prison awaiting another investigation from a woman who's just come forward regarding a previously unreported attack. What I'd like to know, is why the CPS didn't bother to approach any of the old victims that they didn't bother to prosecute Warbos for.

So, back to the injustice of the curtain burner. He didn't help his case, but it was definitely a miscarriage of justice.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...ears-in-jail-for-setting-curtains-alight.html

 

[EFLImpudence]

Yes, but one damaged property - and a church at that - the other only hurt people.

Isn't that how it works?

 

[Doggit]

I would have to say that the police, the CPS and the judiciary are no longer fit for purpose. The current rape trials that are collapsing seem to based on the need to get a conviction, therefore evidence is withheld. The police feel that drugs should be legalised, so just give cautions. The CPS are obviously inept, and won't prosecute a case unless they can get a conviction, and with the Judges are often liberal minded, so won't give a decent sentence, even when it's so obviously deserved.

It is easier for the police to improve their crime figure by handing out cautions for anything and everything, and then they complain they are understaffed, but if the miscreants were prosecuted and jailed 2nd time round, then they wouldn't have any excuse not to attend to burglaries, and might actually be able to do the job they get paid for, instead of attending diversity lectures.

If DB had set fire to the church curtains nowadays, they would have considered it a religiously aggravated crime, and given him a suspended sentence - how times have changed.

 

[DaveHerns]

the other only hurt people.

Isn't that rather trivialising rape?

 

[EFLImpudence]

Good grief. No, it's called sarcasm.

 

[gasbanni]

That telegraph article is ftom August 2002 ! He's been out for 14 years.

I've noticed in the past that Arson carries hefty sentances, Worboys should have got life and he should have died in jail. Think of the lives he's ruined.

 

[Doggit]

Well spotted Gasbanni; we missed the date, but that in someways makes it worse, for it shows just how lenient sentences are getting. Ever get the feeling that plod just want to look good, rather than doing the job they are paid for.

 

[motorbiking]

Park for a moment the issue of indeterminate sentences.. If he served the minimum term, met the criteria for parole, why shouldn't he be released on license? Many people commit horrible crimes and many people's crimes have a massive impact on people. But unless we want to become like America, locking 10% of the population up, we have to given people a chance to rehabilitate. What good does it do society to have people in prison forever if they have changed their ways?

He'll be out on license - one foot wrong and its game over.

 

[Doggit]

Assuming you're talking about Warboys, the police reckon that he may have committed 100 assaults, and even feel that 500 wouldn't be an unreasonable figure. They prosecuted on a minimum number thinking that would be sufficient to incarcerate him for life, only to find the parole board didn't take all the other un-prosecuted cases into account. But having seen how the parole board work, I suspect they'd still have felt he'd been rehabilitated, and let him out.

Yes, he will be out on licence, but putting a foot wrong for him, would mean that another women has been raped.

 

[motorbiking]

Police should put their evidence to the cps then. Its in the defendants interest to request other offences are taken in to account in order to get a reduced sentence, though that is a bit tricky with a not guilty plea. I'm very cautious with the amount of media hype surrounding this case. Nobody other than those close to the case know why he was recommended for release. He was sentenced to a min 8 years and he's served 8 years. I don't trust any of the politicians jumping on the band wagon.

 

[Brigadier]

Police should put their evidence to the cps then.

Given his M.O. is raping unconscious women, I doubt there would be much evidence. But hey ho, let's just hope he trips himself up before he ruins too many other girls' lives, eh?

 

[DaveHerns]

Maybe he'll get a bit of street justice.

 

[Doggit]

I expect that he'll never get a job again, and he'll live on benefits. Would street justice be enough.

 

[Brigadier]

I expect that he'll never get a job again..............

What? Like Ian Huntley, for instance?