Machete thug and yob who left baby paralysed about to be set free early from prison

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2. Got to make room for people that offend Chairman Starmers doctrine

3. Unless I’m thinking about another case, isn’t he Belgian? Surely he should be released and just placed on a plane to Brussels?

4. ~~“Machete thug” Just to clarify for people who don’t read: He sold machetes and that’s what he went down for. Honestly if anyone was let out early that guy is probably one of the better options. Edit: So having been provided with some further evidence outside the article he was specifically convicted for supplying someone with a machete. He may have been more involved in the use of that machete later but not convicted. So unfortunately this may be a case where the paperwork does not necessarily line up with what the person did.~~

   Edit 2: Fuck, ok I hold my hands up. I clearly misread it does say he was convicted of manslaughter. In my defence people usually don’t read the article but it looks like I fucked up this time. I apologise and wish I could make that clear to people who have already read my comment but obviously I can’t.

5. “yob” the language of an oxbridge graduate trying to connect with the working class

6. I thought they weren’t releasing people convicted of violent crimes.

7. Its just sad what this country has become. The rest of the world isnt like this.

   There is a spectrum, on one side you have the extreme of many middle eastern countries with lashings, hand removals, stoning etc. However we are the other extreme, the pathetically weak end.

   Somewhere in the middle is where we need to be.

   You know a country where if you paralysed a baby in an intentional attack you don’t get to ever be free in this country again until you are perhaps too old an demented to pose a risk to anyone again. I think that is fair, I think that offers the very necessary element of retribution and also keeps all other kids safe from that sort of person.

   I hate what we are becoming. I hate the pathetic excuses and justifications we dish out for what are evil acts.

   I cant help but think we need two kinds of sentence. One is for criminals that need rehabilitation, these are drug addicts, thieves, burglars and fraudsters. They have never physically hurt anyone and can change their lives as they made poor choices.

   Then there are the others, people who rape, people who abuse kids, people who murder etc. These people dont deserve rehabilitation. They just need to be removed for the greater good, this doesnt mean we need the death penalty they just cant be free.

8. Adam Andrews, 37, is also due to be released following his sentencing to three years in March. The brute abused a baby boy in 2018 and left helpless child blind and paralysed.

   I think that pathetic sentence is the bigger issue, not if they serve 40 or 50% of it 

9. I still can’t believe starmer just let them out like that ☠️

10. All leaders of the world’s population should be following in the path of how Poland acts and prioritising their citizens over anything else. Look after your own people by whatever means necessary

11. These are not the kind of people who should be out early.

12. The machete one isn’t really being ‘freed’ though. It’s more transfer to immigration holding to be deported. His family were in the paper in the huff because he was told he wouldn’t but apparently now is being deported

13. nothing wrong here, its important we make room for those people that said mean things on twitter

14. Is there any possible alternatives to releasing all these violent offenders early?

15. Crime is not a complex phenomenon.

    It’s just the obvious result of the blatant refusal by the state to do something about the tiny minority of the population [that](https://x.com/scientific_bird/status/1834253636479893879?s=46) actually [commits](https://x.com/scientific_bird/status/1833980068881990119?s=46) effectively [all](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969807/) crime.

    I genuinely don’t know how you can now not believe that those in power are complicit in innocent people being victimised.

    Doing that to a baby and you get 3 years?

    The CPS, sentencing council, the judiciary, the police are all as guilty, if not more, of the victimisation of his next victim – as he is.

16. How unlike the Mirror to write a highly
    Misleading headline.

    Don’t some of you get tired of letting the media pull on your nose ring and lead you from one idea to the next.

17. Thank God they’ve made room for real criminals, that do real harm to is all! Some of those tweets can be really hurtful

18. Lots of posts on here about how this shouldn’t be happening. Totally agree, but the difference from being let out at 40% of tariff vs 50% ain’t much. And this problem has been brewing for 2yrs: the last Govt didn’t grasp the nettle in part because of the responses here: voters don’t want to see this, it doesn’t sit well with them. But Govt is often about making difficult and unpopular choices for the long term good of the country. Believe me, if we hadn’t (frankly) slightly reduced the release date, we truly would be fucked. It’s grim, but it’s necessary.

19. Can’t even begin to state what these scum bags deserve, some do gooder will report the comment and be shadow banned for god knows how long! This country’s justice system is a joke! Medieval justice comes to mind for scum like this!

20. I miss when binge drinking used to be the biggest issue in Britain.