Why was this not murder?

[BoredBloke]

"At the risk of sounding like a Daily Mail reader, how does somebody have 24 previous convictions for anything and still be walking around? Even if it's 24 convictions for dropping litter there needs to be an escalating scale of penalties otherwise what's the point having the law?"

That is a big failing of our legal system. We have this thing with kids where they are allowed to get pi55ed and cause trouble. They get a slap on the wrists and this gives them the impression that there are no consequences for their actions and they continue causing trouble. As their previous grows, so the severity from the courts gets greater - slowly. By the time they eventually get sent down they tend to have an extensive track record.

I'm all up for shaving their heads and painting the word wnaker on them in ink which takes about 6 months to wash off

[Clippy]

Conscription - straight to Iraq.

They'll learn some discipline and maybe even get shot.

[DimPrawn]

National Service.

Training, discpline, some focus, pick up skills, travel, etc.


It works for a lot of other countries.

[Clippy]

And another charming little scrote who should be sent to the front lines:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7117089.stm

[BoredBloke]

Again, why was that not murder.

[Clippy]

I think he was:

"Lloyd Edwards, 19, was convicted of murdering Laila Rezk, 51...
Edwards will be sentenced on Thursday."

[tim123]

Much like pointing a gun at somebody, pulling the trigger and claiming to be suprised by the outcome.

Actually, it's exactly like that. The issue then at stake is whether the claim is believable, and obviously it was (and in a few cases the gun analogy will be as well)

tim

[KathyWoolfe]

How much does having a common criminal roaming around robbing and generally being a coont cost the government? Not a lot.

How much does putting crims behind bars cost? About £50k pa. for each scrote they lock up.

It isn't the government who has to pay to keep criminals behind bars - it's us, the taxpayer who ultimately foots the bill.