Anyone who thinks any particular sentence is too lenient should try some gaol time themselves.
I wouldn't like to be there for a day, let alone years.
The insistence on the need for heavier penalties for every crime isn't good for anything. Next there will be a recommendation that motorists be summarily executed by beheading for any offence that is worth three points.
It also fascinates me that his age "was taken into account" during sentencing. For the life of me, I cannot see why anyone gets a bonus for having got away with crime for so long.
Will Australian victims get their day in an Australian court???
After all he is (was) an Australian citizen who (allegedly) did the same thing here.
Bring him here, try him and if convicted add any sentence to what the Poms dished out.
They should bring back capital punishment hanging etc for crimes like these that way there are no repeat offenders and less money has to be spent protecting them in jails as well!
They should bring back capital punishment hanging etc for crimes like these that way there are no repeat offenders and less money has to be spent protecting them in jails as well!Execution is more expensive than imprisonment, increases the crime rate, and increases both the rate and severity of repeat offences as criminals on the run commit much more severe crimes in an effort not to get captured.
After all he is (was) an Australian citizen …Source? He was born in 1930 to British parents, well before Australian citizenship came into being in 1948, and he is therefore a British citizen unless it is documented that he later took Australian citizenship.
Will Australian victims get their day in an Australian court???Can't see it happening. After the media circus surrounding this trial, it would be impossible to select a jury for such a trial and I can't see any of the state governments concluding that it's in the public interest to spend many millions of taxpayer dollars on having a crack at a prosecution.
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Bring him here, try him and if convicted add any sentence to what the Poms dished out.
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