Continuing the discussion from Breaking News Thread (Part 1) - #5044 by CanuckoLFC.
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Is it me or do these sentences seem absurdly light
The 15-year-olds were given three-year Youth Rehabilitation Orders with intensive surveillance and supervision. The younger boy’s probation supervision will be for one and half years.
Two 15-year-old boys and a boy, 14, were previously convicted of rape following a trial at Southampton Crown Court.
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It does seem lenient. The ages at the time of the crime probably has some bearing, but the victim seems to be forgotten in this.
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“I should avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily…” said the judge…
I think those boys had already done that 
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There was a report on the BBC yesterday about the jailing of 2 gang members in London who were convicted of murder of an innocent young mother of two after shots were fired at a rapper at a wake. Another mourner was left paralysed from the waist down.
The judge addressing the defendants in the dock, said: "Today, you stand guilty before all but, most importantly, you stand forgiven.
“Do not burden yourself with guilt but an unquenchable and determined desire to change. If you succeed in this, you would have repaid society.”
Fat chance of that Your Honour
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Yes, they do seem lenient. I am quite shocked. The poor girls have to carry this trauma for years. The judge seems quite out of touch with society.
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Strange story this. Did a bit of research to try and find out who exactly had forgiven them, turns out they got 38 and 26 year stretches. One of them will be 65 before he can be released, the other will be 46. They weren’t even the gunman, he’s still at large.
So the notion of them repaying society seems a bit odd. Not that I care btw, hopefully they’ll both die in prison.
I took it that the husband forgave them, rather than the judge.
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i wonder how much time and money will be spent deporting them after they serve their sentences…
but then again, we will probably get some smart arse lawyer arguing that they cant be sent home as their lives would be in danger or its against their human rights to be deported and they will then be allowed to stay in the UK.
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Why have you linked that to Rambler’s post?
It’s linked to Rambler’s earlier post to which it does relate?
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In what way does it relate?
Try clicking the link reference to Rambler’s post that is at the top of mine. It links to this post which is obviously related…
There is an anonymous interview with the victim here:
She makes the point that it wasn’t worth putting herself through the stress of the trial when her assailants were essentially let off with a slap on the wrist.
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They should be deported back to their home countries. They committed a crime. If they did thst over there, they would be hanged.
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