Re: can someone enlighten me?
“Gravity of a murder” Ianto.W.? Dead by another hand is DEAD – full stop and should receive the same punishment no matter who the victim is. The same applies to other crimes.
Biggs harmed no one except the driver who eventually died, allegedly from injuries received during the robbery, and had the audacity to rob a ROYAL mail train. He got 30 years but was that because of the robbery or was that because of the driver’s death? If memory serves me well the driver died AFTER Biggs was sentenced so at the best he would only have been charged with armed robbery and GBH to the driver.
A paedophile who abuses an innocent child and then kills it gets half that.
The punishment does not fit the crime but is harsher or longer if the victim is a prominent member of society. Not that a prison sentence these days is very harsh.
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