Friday, August 26, 2005
OAP knife attacker
OAP knife attacker may face prison.
I was quite stunned listening to some of my fellow drinkers last night, that some people find it quite shocking that this man might go to prison over this knife attack. Yet, I asked, why should age or handicap be a factor?
Surely every assault involving the use of an open blade or other offensive weapon, ought to attract a custodial sentence, with each case being decided on it's facts and merits.
The newspapers, particularly the popularly dailies, seem to be running a campaign at present, that presents Britain as the "lawless society", full of chavs, hoodies, drug users, and other anti-social types. There is also a lot of column inches given to the imposition of ASBO's (Anti-Social Behaviour Orders) some calling for more and praising their use, and some ridiculing the use of them.
So, if the press are to be listened to, this is indeed a lawless society, so it's about time that the laws were applied in an impartial and fair manner without regard for class, age, colour, creed, religion, or fitness. A young man with no previous convictions found guilty of the stabbing of another should suffer exactly the same penalty as might be applied to someone three times his age, and vice versa.
It is time to eradicate the culture of knife and gun use in this country, and Magistrates in South Tyneside could make an enormous contributuion to this by disallowing emotive contemplations in cases such as this.
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I was quite stunned listening to some of my fellow drinkers last night, that some people find it quite shocking that this man might go to prison over this knife attack. Yet, I asked, why should age or handicap be a factor?
Surely every assault involving the use of an open blade or other offensive weapon, ought to attract a custodial sentence, with each case being decided on it's facts and merits.
The newspapers, particularly the popularly dailies, seem to be running a campaign at present, that presents Britain as the "lawless society", full of chavs, hoodies, drug users, and other anti-social types. There is also a lot of column inches given to the imposition of ASBO's (Anti-Social Behaviour Orders) some calling for more and praising their use, and some ridiculing the use of them.
So, if the press are to be listened to, this is indeed a lawless society, so it's about time that the laws were applied in an impartial and fair manner without regard for class, age, colour, creed, religion, or fitness. A young man with no previous convictions found guilty of the stabbing of another should suffer exactly the same penalty as might be applied to someone three times his age, and vice versa.
It is time to eradicate the culture of knife and gun use in this country, and Magistrates in South Tyneside could make an enormous contributuion to this by disallowing emotive contemplations in cases such as this.
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