I’ve never been quite comfortable with this law, I don’t disagree with the increase in sentencing it but it never felt right in law some peoples lives are worth more.
Everyone should go home from work.
From where I’m sitting those responsible should have got way longer sentences, or even been convicted of murder rather than manslaughter in that they dragged him so far. Mandatory life sentences for manslaughter regardless of the victim feels wrong though in that there are so many variables that could lead to such an event, surely discretion is important
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Unfortunately the officer was standing in a really dangerous position with his foot inside a loop of rope that was hanging from the car.
Manslaughter charges for the driver are fair enough, it was an accident but ultimately their actions led to a death.
The other people convicted were bullshit though. Guilty of manslaughter because they happened to be in the car at the time.
Mandatory life sentences for an accident though? Thats also bullshit, never mind mandatory life sentences for being a passenger in the wrong car. Thats not even taking into account the whole concept of emergency service workers somehow being enshrined in law as having more worthy lives.
That plainly isn’t just so should have no place in something which calls itself the justice system. This whole thing has been put in place by politicians who just wanted to use this death as a vehicle to look tough on crime and encourage some votes and because the widow happens to look pretty good on the front pages of tabloids. Its cynical as fuck.
Because pig lives matter more than pleb lives apparently.
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I’ve never been quite comfortable with this law, I don’t disagree with the increase in sentencing it but it never felt right in law some peoples lives are worth more.
Everyone should go home from work.
From where I’m sitting those responsible should have got way longer sentences, or even been convicted of murder rather than manslaughter in that they dragged him so far. Mandatory life sentences for manslaughter regardless of the victim feels wrong though in that there are so many variables that could lead to such an event, surely discretion is important
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Unfortunately the officer was standing in a really dangerous position with his foot inside a loop of rope that was hanging from the car.
Manslaughter charges for the driver are fair enough, it was an accident but ultimately their actions led to a death.
The other people convicted were bullshit though. Guilty of manslaughter because they happened to be in the car at the time.
Mandatory life sentences for an accident though? Thats also bullshit, never mind mandatory life sentences for being a passenger in the wrong car. Thats not even taking into account the whole concept of emergency service workers somehow being enshrined in law as having more worthy lives.
That plainly isn’t just so should have no place in something which calls itself the justice system. This whole thing has been put in place by politicians who just wanted to use this death as a vehicle to look tough on crime and encourage some votes and because the widow happens to look pretty good on the front pages of tabloids. Its cynical as fuck.
Because pig lives matter more than pleb lives apparently.