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Forum: In the News
Thread (Discussion): [scotsman.com] Gang 'murdered suspected paedophile at bus stop'
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Message 131503 (In Reply to Message 131225)
It's irrelevent whether he was convicted or not.
Posted by victorialondon
on Apr 24, 2004 06:55 PM | Also by victorialondon
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It's irrelevent whether he was convicted or not.One day the vigilantes may get the "right" victim,this doesn't matter.All victims of vigilantism are innocent since vigilantism is not a proper penalty in law.
There is no such sentence as "life without the possibility of parole" in British law(Scots law is different from English law,neither has it)
The Judge can recommend "natural life",but it's only a recommendation.
I refer you to my post about the press in comparing Britain and America(I have no information on Continental Europe).
There is indeed a lot of vigilantism here,the troubles resulting from the "News of the World"s(a pornographic hate sheet I won't call a newspaper) inflammatory name/shame witchunt(which Mark Klaas and Maureen Kanka flew here to support)has never fully died out .And the latterday Salem's of previously peacefull housing estates which this campaign incited still simmer.
A paediatrician and her family were attacked on a misunderstanding of words(actually to get it right you must understand the Greek root of a word,can everyone in America do that?).
Recently it has been spreading away from sexual offences to others,and a suspected burglar was beaten to death with a baseball bat.
In northern Ireland the paramilitaries rule.With wretches kneecapped,sometimes on suspicion of sexual offences,but also on suspicion of petty theft.Families have benn burned alive in their homes,recently this has turned racist with more many Ethnic families attacked and driven and burned out.
David Blunkett,the Home secretary(IE law and order boss)and savage enemy of civil rights has said of attempts to introduce a British version of "Megan's law".
"I say quietly to those campaigning that we cannot hand over to mobs who can't tell Paediatricians from paedophiles"
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Message 131225
Life sentence?
Posted by Silverthorne
on Apr 22, 2004 06:49 PM | Also by Silverthorne
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131203, admin, Apr 22, 2004 10:23 AM [Introduction]
131204, steve, Apr 22, 2004 02:34 PM
131227, Silverthorne, Apr 22, 2004 06:52 PM [Dont agree]
131230, steve, Apr 22, 2004 07:01 PM
131233, Silverthorne, Apr 22, 2004 07:08 PM [I'll pass Steve]
131238, steve, Apr 22, 2004 07:27 PM
131293, Silverthorne, Apr 23, 2004 02:45 AM [Media]
131460, orolan, Apr 24, 2004 03:15 AM
131489, victorialondon, Apr 24, 2004 02:15 PM [Could it be the abscence of a nation...]
131515, orolan, Apr 24, 2004 08:23 PM [Victorialondon]
131225, Silverthorne, Apr 22, 2004 06:49 PM [Life sentence?]
131503, victorialondon, Apr 24, 2004 06:55 PM [It's irrelevent whether he was convi...]
131512, orolan, Apr 24, 2004 08:15 PM
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