- but said the teenager had a “realistic prospect of rehabilitation”.
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Zambo wrote:At sentencing today the judge described the incident as “extremely serious”
- but said the teenager had a “realistic prospect of rehabilitation”.
m4rkb wrote:Zambo wrote:At sentencing today the judge described the incident as “extremely serious”
- but said the teenager had a “realistic prospect of rehabilitation”.
Translation: He's an habitual offender who's up to his neck in all of this kind of stuff but has an expensive entourage of solicitors, probation and social workers all fighting his corner. They managed to convince a typical do-gooding judge that he really can be rehabilitated.
I have literally seen this loads of times and the person I often quote on here as being arrested and bailed 42 times on the trot was 17 at the time. Only when he turned 18 did anything actually happen like him going to prison. Even then, it was more common to see him on the streets than not despite never stopping his crime spree.
An absolute joke.
Judge Dhir said a probation officer had told her this morning that Gardner was a “quiet and young man”.
Ralph wrote:
The police seem clear who’s responsible. Obviously the police chiefs who are appointed by Theresa May won’t be so blunt.
Zambo wrote:Ralph wrote:
The police seem clear who’s responsible. Obviously the police chiefs who are appointed by Theresa May won’t be so blunt.
Of course it's the Government's fault, they decide the laws and pass them, and a bunch of poor bastards have to try and do their bit to enforce them, with an under strength team and very little deterrent and/or punishment even if the criminals are caught. My comment were alluding to the last bit of that.
Criminals will continue to commit crime if they think there is little chance of being caught, and even if they are, they know that they the law and pathetically lenient judges will ensure that their lack of freedom will only be temporary. That goes even for the serial offenders. Moreover, we now even got the Prisons minister talking shite like this.
"You bring somebody in for three or four weeks, they lose their house, their job, their family, their reputation".
You may as well give up. Who gives a fuck if someone loses their job or house. If they wanted to keep both then don't commit the crime. We've been trying the rehabilitation approach and looking at why people break the law for decades, and it don't work, otherwise we wouldn't be looking at crime figures like this.