Faith restored in our court system (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Faith restored in our court system
10:21am Friday 9th November 2012 in Opinion
COURTS have been criticised by many people for being too lenient when sentencing offenders.
There are a number who feel the punishment does not fit the crime.
So those that believe appropriate justice is not being meted out must be delighted by the sentences handed out at Bournemouth Crown Court to Oladapo Obadare and Daniel Smedley.
Obadare got eight years for robbery, after terrorising staff at a Poole jeweller’s. He was one of five masked raiders who attacked Forum Jewellers on the Broadway, Broadstone, in broad daylight.
Meanwhile, Smedley was jailed for five and a half years for possessing a firearm, ammo and drugs.
It’s satisfying to report that both men are going to prison for a long stretch.
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s-pb2
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7:05pm Fri 9 Nov 12
retry69
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7:16pm Fri 9 Nov 12
saynomore
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4:08pm Sat 10 Nov 12
martin1512
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8:18pm Sat 10 Nov 12
saynomore wrote:The incentive is to rehabilitate people. People always respond better to positive incentives rather than punishments. If you give people a reward for good behaviour, they are more likely to act the way you want them to, rather than punishing them when they transgress. The fact that they are in prison is proof that punishment alone is not an effective deterrent.
It is time that sentences were made to be the whole time served when charged for offences and time added for bad behavior not reduced for "good" behaviour otherwise what is the point.
pete woodley
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2:11pm Mon 12 Nov 12
mgibbs says...
10:55am Fri 9 Nov 12