Friday, 26 June 2009

What's The Penalty....

....for beating someone with a hammer & robbing them?

An average jail time of less than TWO YEARS, (ALL prisoners except lifers serve a maximum of half their tariff) if this case is anything to go by:

"Three Birmingham men and a teenager admitted attacking the 31-year-old jeweller with a hammer and were jailed at Preston Crown Court.......

.....The raid took place last October last year at Rahman' s Jewellers off Whalley New Road, Blackburn.

The gang fled with valuables in a black Audi, leaving the shop owner with head injuries, a laceration to his face and cuts to his hands......

......Asad Mohammed, 25, of Newton Road, Sparkhill, was sentenced to four years eight months for one charge of robbery.

Mohammed Nasir Khan, 19, of Walford Road, Tyseley, received three years four months.

Adnan Ahmed, 21, of Baker Street, Sparkhill, was sentenced to three years for robbery and one charge of dangerous driving.

A 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been sentenced to three years in detention.

Another member of the gang, Shah Hussain, 29, of Lichfield Road, was found guilty of robbery after a three-day trial and will be sentenced on 23 July.

Susan Riley, of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in Blackburn said: "The defendants had equipped themselves with weapons and were prepared to use them, subjecting the shop owner and his wife to a terrifying ordeal.

"They went to considerable lengths to escape arrest, driving the getaway vehicle dangerously and endangering other road users."


Could it possibly be that their ethnicity led to a LESSER penalty through a fear of being seen as discriminatory?

I'm sick & tired of seeing a never ending stream of serious crime being committed by immigrants, refugees, migrant workers from the EU, their families & descendants without ANY comment from the government.
Here's my idea: Send them back to where they or their families originate from if we can't be bothered to punish them properly.

2 comments:

RKL said...

That kind of crime would probably get 20+ years in the US. That's why I laugh when I hear people say that we have too many people in prison here. Sure we do, because we punish the bad people.

RKL

Bill O' Rites said...

The US justice system certainly does give more appropriate sentences to violent criminals.
Unfortunately it also incarcerates many whose actions & offences don't warrant a custodial penalty.
Get the petty offenders out of jail & there's more space for those who should NEVER be released (judicious use of the rope or firing squad would clear some space too.....).