Life imprisonment

[DimPrawn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...re/5063856.stm

Savage knifing man gets life term

A man who stabbed a woman nearly 30 times has been sentenced to life in prison by a court.

Mark Antony Oldfield, 32, from Devizes, Wiltshire, knifed ex-girlfriend Hayley Cooper 28 times, near Salisbury, on 14 September last year.

Salisbury Crown Court heard how Miss Cooper, 23, had to undergo life-saving surgery after the attack.


The sentence passed means Oldfield is subject to lifetime parole but he could be out of jail in as little as two years, the court heard.


Eh? WTF?

Life imprisonment = 2 years????

You'd get more than that for not paying your VAT on time............

Good grief.

[shaunbhoy]

The guy stabbed her 28 times and did not manage to kill her?
What a loser!!

I foresee a career for him in Social Services somewhere, probably working with challenging teenagers.

[Dalek Supreme]

Eligible for parole <> released on parole.

They won't let him out for a long time. Bit like the hoo-haa about the 16 year tariff for that child rapist yesterday. The Daily Mail was throwing its arms up in the air and saying "he'll be out in 8". Will he hell. As the head of the parole service said on a Radio 4 interview yesterday, "the likelihood of a parole board approving this man's release EVER, never mind in eight years' time, is virtually nil".

[MrsGoof]

but it does happen.

when I was a kid a friend was murdered, the sicko was on the streets 18 months later

[xoggoth]

You may be right Mr Rusty Dalek, but I am sure in such cases most would prefer rather more certainty.

[Churchill]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...re/5063856.stm

Savage knifing man gets life term

A man who stabbed a woman nearly 30 times has been sentenced to life in prison by a court.

Mark Antony Oldfield, 32, from Devizes, Wiltshire, knifed ex-girlfriend Hayley Cooper 28 times, near Salisbury, on 14 September last year.

Salisbury Crown Court heard how Miss Cooper, 23, had to undergo life-saving surgery after the attack.


The sentence passed means Oldfield is subject to lifetime parole but he could be out of jail in as little as two years, the court heard.


Eh? WTF?

Life imprisonment = 2 years????

You'd get more than that for not paying your VAT on time............

Good grief.

What you are forgetting - because you read too many tabloids and watch too much daytime TV - is that the guy will have to serve at least two years of his "Life" sentence before he is eligable to apply for parole. It does not necessarily follow that he will gain parole when he applies. If he is released, he'll be released on warrant, which means, the slightest breach in his terms of release will mean <SLAM> back inside!

FFS, think for yourself instead of leaping at headlines - you're supposed to be a computer contractor, you're supposed to be able to think for yourself.

Now, where were we?

[Fungus]

FFS, think for yourself instead of leaping at headlines - you're supposed to be a computer contractor, you're supposed to be able to think for yourself.

Errr, scuse me comrade, but nowhere in my contract does it include thinking.

[Joe Black.]

28 times!? What was he using, one of those krappy plastic knives they give out on planes. What a chump.

[meridian]

Eligible for parole <> released on parole.

But I bet that if he wasn't released on parole he'd sue for breach of his human rights.

It's only fair

[AlfredJPruffock]

You'd get more than that for not paying your VAT on time............

Not true DP, lets keep a sense of proportion.

VAT late payment penalties are now set a minimum of a week inside an Iron Coffin , two offences gets you an Iron Coffin with spikes on the inside.

Its only fair.