What’s going on with our justice system?

robfosters

robfosters

robfosters

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This is a total disgrace. How on earth has that woman who took a knife to a park, sat in wait for a victim and then then sliced a little girl’s throat, been cleared of murder but convicted instead of just manslaughter?

Docs say she hadn’t been taking her medication. To me, that’s not an excuse, but even more of a reason to convict of murder. If you fail to take medication that you know keeps your mind right, surely that adds to the culpability?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ering-girl-7-stabbed-death-park.html#comments
 
Meridian said:
Stop being sensible. This is GD and it won't help.

She was convicted of manslaughter because she is insane. Floridly so. The fact that she went off her meds is neither here nor there. Psychotics frequently go off their meds because the side-effects are horrific. And, of course, if the meds work they don't think they need them. Which is part of the insanity. In civilised countries we do not punish insane people the way we punish sane ones because the difference is important. Which is why the CJ system is run be experts, not internet lynch mobs.
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Whatever, she should still spend the rest of her life locked up
 
Angilion said:
She was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, the harshest sentence allowed in UK law. How on earth are you interpreting that as her being "exempt from breaking the law"?

Seriously, I want to know how you arrive at the conclusion that "convicted and given the harshest sentence allowed in law" means "is exempt from breaking the law".



What mitigation? She was sentenced to life imprisonment, the maximum sentence allowed in UK law for any crime. There was no mitigation. There was no lessening of the sentence.
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No, the harshest sentence would have been life imprisonment without possibility of parole
 
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