Justice??

[NetwkSupport]

Someone please tell me why dont we bring back medeival torture for crims?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8186001.stm

Loan shark Robert Reynolds, 39, from Stanley, County Durham, lent one family £500 to meet a debt taken out for computer - then forced them to pay £88,000 over seven years.

The pressure caused mother-of-four Debra Wilson, 40, to suffer two strokes and a brain haemorrhage, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

The judge described him as "beneath contempt" and gave him a 51-week prison sentence, suspended for two years.

 

[SallyAnne]

I've got to say, I am absolutely disgusted by this like. What the **** do you have ot do to get sent to prison these days?!!

This guy bled £88k out of that family, and terrorised them every single day for years!

The wife had 2 strokes because of it ffs!!

Absolutely baffling, and utterly disgusting.

However...one saving grace...he comes from Stanley...I would imagine the community will deal with this one themselves. And rightly fukc1ng so!

 

[BrilloPad]

Someone please tell me why dont we bring back medeival torture for crims?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8186001.stm

Loan shark Robert Reynolds, 39, from Stanley, County Durham, lent one family £500 to meet a debt taken out for computer - then forced them to pay £88,000 over seven years.

The pressure caused mother-of-four Debra Wilson, 40, to suffer two strokes and a brain haemorrhage, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

The judge described him as "beneath contempt" and gave him a 51-week prison sentence, suspended for two years.

But he only ever hurt poor people. If he had hurt a judge he would have got a much longer sentence.

HTH

 

[NetwkSupport]

just re-inforces the old saying "crime pays" !!

 

[SallyAnne]

just re-inforces the old saying "crime pays" !!

It certainly does liek - he doesn't even have to pay any of the £88k back to them!!

I just dont understand what the fukc1ng judge was on.

 

[shaunbhoy]

I just dont understand what the fukc1ng judge was on.

The payroll??

 

[OwlHoot]

Someone please tell me why dont we bring back medeival torture for crims?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8186001.stm

Loan shark Robert Reynolds, 39, from Stanley, County Durham, lent one family £500 to meet a debt taken out for computer - then forced them to pay £88,000 over seven years.

The pressure caused mother-of-four Debra Wilson, 40, to suffer two strokes and a brain haemorrhage, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

The judge described him as "beneath contempt" and gave him a 51-week prison sentence, suspended for two years.

So basically he got away with it.

 

[RichardCranium]

But what law did he break? Was it just that he didn't have consumer credit licence?

 

[RichardCranium]

But what law did he break? Was it just that he didn't have consumer credit licence?

Found it:

"He was originally charged with blackmail but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of harassment with intent to commit violence."

So he was not in court for being a loan shark. Being a loan shark is fine; it's just like a bank loan but with higher interest.

 

[shaunbhoy]

But what law did he break? Was it just that he didn't have consumer credit licence?

I imagine a tax investigation might yield some ammo for the powers that be. Problem is, he can probably afford a better Accountant/Solicitor than most contractors.