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6 Years?

Posted by Merk

June 14th, 2006

Categories: Front Pages |

17 Comments

  1. Paul

    Roddy Llewellyn gave Princess Margaret a pearl necklace on more than one occasion!

  2. Bernadette

    Why is it a scandal? Isn’t it policy in some (underlined) cases to release on licence? I wonder if the article mentions how many lifers have not been released after 6 years.

    And I’m glad Linley has made £10M. Let’s hope all the money has to come back to us tax-payers, seen as though we probably paid for it all in the first place.

  3. larry

    more bollox from DE half the money goes to the treasury in death duty and the rest is going to charity I believe..

  4. Paul Smith

    Presumably the more use of bad language on any of the issues here emphasises the degree of the moron stating it.

  5. Simon

    I think the real interesting figure would whether any of those lifers have reoffended. Not something to really get worked up about if they haven’t.

  6. Jollity

    I read one theory that Jekyll and Hyde was a gay analogy (as well as some Hans Christien Andersen stories). Mind you, my lecturer at university thought that was stupid. Still, I’d rather like to promote it because it’s on the front of the Daily Mail today :)

  7. johnnyh

    Dr Littlejohn and Mr Hitchens perhaps?

  8. Defender of the realm

    Glad the children are saved from pauperism, what with the lack of workhouses in current society and all

  9. matt hurst

    This is policy that the tory goverment was instrumental in bringing in.

    The Labour goverment infact got rid of the automatic parole in most serious cases, a policy that Dave voted against.

  10. hel

    FREE CHILDREN’S CLASSIC DVD: THE 53 LIFERS FREED AFTER 6 YEARS.
    Never heard of that one before!

  11. larry

    this is what we ve got to deal with…http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=390532&in_page_id=1770&ct=5#StartComments

  12. IanC

    “I wonder if the article mentions how many lifers have not been released after 6 years.”
    Bet its a hell of a lot more than 53.

  13. Coyote

    That DM comments thread is even more blusteringly idiotic than usual. My favourite quote:

    “We need some sort of proper justice here- look at when we had the death penalty- people thought twice, serious crime was near enough non-existent.”

    Serious crime was near enough non-existant! Spectacular!

  14. Matthew

    “What we are witnessing is something that the likes of Hitler and the Spanish Armada could not achieve. A successful invasion and the subjugation of the English in particular.”

    You have to despair when reading comments by Daily Mail readers. It would be funny if it wasnt obvious that many share his neo Nazi sentiments

  15. larry

    This sententence is an invitation to commit murder.

    - Brian, England

    yes Brian it is u doughnut..

  16. Scotty

    While trawling through the bile on the readers comments, I noticed that the Mail now has a dating agency. Now there’s a concept.

    I wonder if they use different acronyms and abbreviations; no GSOH or WLTM. More BNP , WASP and the like.

    Also, if you are looking for extrapolation and thin content check out the story on ‘Bosses’ and ‘Outrage’ Today.

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    [...] With the tabloids here working themselves into a lather about low prison sentences, I doubt if most people will notice the voices of reason arguing that just putting more people in jail for longer is not going to help matters. The furore about sentencing overlooks the grim reality of the British penal system today, argues Robert Chesshyre in The Observer (18 June). […] The way to reduce crime is to have constructive regimes; the way to have constructive regimes is to have fewer prisoners. Prison […] embitters, hardens and (above all) often further disables thousands of (badly damaged) men and women each year. Are we a safer society more at ease with ourselves than when I first wrote about jails? As I scurry home, glancing furtively over my shoulder, I think not. [...]

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