Lucy Connolly

[Steve_uk]

I think it was way over the top in terms of sentencing. The government is looking to remove custodial sentences in some instances following the review by David Gauke. I do not know what the sentencing guidance was for her offence. I think the Judge was more concerned by the prevailing environment of heightened racial tension and thought he would 'send a message' which was IMO misplaced and actually has made matters worse.

This explains to some extent: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/69986/understanding-the-sentence-of-lucy-connolly

[ILB]

Do away with short sentences altogether and have prison for the only most dangerous offenders.

Repeat offenders doing life in prison on the installment plan is s complete and utter waste of time. Some guy up my way was jailed for 8 weeks for shoplifting a few weeks ago. Just a waste of taxpayers money. And there's no punitive element to a seasoned criminal.

[ngb1066]

I think this is posted in the wrong section. By the way, I note a couple of changes NGB1066 has made to the site: Lucy Letby now has her own domain, and Other High Profile Cases has just become Other for some reason.

When requested we normally create a new board for a specific case and have separate threads within it, particularly when there is a lot of interest in the case.  The renaming of the general board within Other High Profile Cases was simply to avoid repetition.