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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Karl Bishop killed the young actor Rob Knox by stabbing him to death.
When Bishop was told that Rob Knox had died....his reaction was to reply 'sweet'.
Karl Bishop did not even go into court for his sentencing. Instead he told the prison officers to take him back to Belmarsh 'as he knew he was going down, and anyway it was good there....I get fed and there is a gym'.
Karl Bishop was a habitual user of cannabis. Would you want him out on the streets to murder another innocent young man?
If this was my son who had died at the hands of this thug I would be devastated to hear this.
Maybe it is an emotive subject. It certainly seems to polarise opinions.
I just wonder how tough these criminals would be if they were dropped into real battle zones....like Afghanistan...but why should the forces have to do the job that the judiciary have so plainly failed at?
Answers.........I have none.
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I agree with your last comment .... I don't have any answers either. In my first post, I tried to say all I had to say as briefly as I could; and then shut up. Unfortunately, in attempting to be concise, I became too terse. I had one point to make: harsher punishments will not deter crime. They never have in the past; they are not working now; and they will not work in the future. I'm not saying that leniency works either. So what do we do? Bounce around from one unworkable solution to another, in the same way that the economy bounces from boom to bust? That gets us nowhere. But we can't solve 21st. century problems with medieval solutions, no matter in what modern clothes we dress them. If that were possible, maybe we could solve the present economic crisis by returning to feudalism! There are major problems in all western societies. And they are begging for solutions, not ones that have been weighed in the balance etc., but new ones ... maybe your government is not finding the right answers, but at least they are trying to get away from the same old, same old.