Is my moral compass faulty?

How can internet threats to school children ~4000 miles away be worth 28 months in prison...

Exhibit A: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/09/facebook-troll-jailed-threat-kill-us-schoolchildren

....and sexual assaults on 13 girls be worth 15 months?

Exhibit b: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/17/stuart-hall-jailed-indecent-assault-girls

Is it just me then or is something not right here?

 

The law is an ass particularly in this country so with regards to exhibits 'a' and 'b' I am in agreement with you so your moral compass is fully intact unlike your taste in newspapers

 

I think you'll find he had curly hair. If it was ginger it would have been life. Not my rules, but you have to abide by them.

I think that there might have been some pressure from the FBI on the judge regarding that sentence.

As for Stuart Hall, well, he's an old man now, 15 months in a prison may well finish him.

 

You're probably right, but I'm having a lot of trouble having any sympathy at all with this Elliott dude. What a first class arsehole.

I think the majority believe that Stuart Hall got off lightly, so I don't think we should compare all future prison sentences to his.

Should Reece Elliott go to gaol? Not for his sick comments on the tribute sites, although if the deceased's friends and family ever get hold of him and give a good kicking it will be fully deserved. But for the threats to shoot up the school? I dunno, maybe he should. Threatening behaviour is against the law, for obvious reasons, it causes distress, and what he wrote doesn't sound like a joke to me, like that bombing the airport debacle, it sounds like a proper threat, even if he does live half way around the world. I'm not sure you can immediately tell where he lives from what he posts.

 

I have no sympathy with him, per se, from what I've read he's behaved like a ****, 28 months in prison of a ****, dunno. But sometimes you see something and wonder if our values are a bit off in this country.

 

28 months does sound too long. No doubt that's due to pressure from the Yanks, who we always appear to bend over backwards to accommodate.

I could give you a better opinion on it if I knew how long he would actually serve. The length of time given for prison sentences doesn't appear to have any relation at all with how long you spend in prison.

 

One is in Tennessee, USa and the other is in the UK - so you can't really draw comparisons.

 

Both convicted in UK courts, under UK law, by UK judges, so maybe you can.

 

Sorry, my mistake - thought it was in the US

 

Pretty sure the Daily Mail is blocked on my lap top ;-)

 

Mine too

 

It's said a number of judges have been to a are home in Wales....

 

I think in the case of Hall some consideration was given to the guy's age which, for me seems sensible. As far as the other idiot is concerned it shows how social networking causes as many problems as it solves, if not more...

 

It wasn't his age that ensured him such a lenient sentence, it was that he had to be sentenced under the legal framework at the time of the offence.

 

I think Halls sentence was way too short but I have no problem with the 28 months for threatening to kill children. Just because he turned out to live a long way away doesnt alter the harm that he did or the fear he put into those kids and their families when he threatened to kill them. 2 years isn't long enough personally. I'd have given him a sentence for every single person he contacted as they are all separate crimes.

 

Why should a guy that is convicted of 13 sexual assaults on young girls, get off lightly just because he is old?

 

I assumed he meant that Hall was young when he committed the crimes or something like that so the age gap to his victims wasn't as great. If he meant that he deserved less jail time because they haven't caught him till he's old then that is stupid.

 

Fair enough if that's the case. Not a nice person by all accounts whatever the legal framework

 

Think he was lucky he wasn't extradited and packed off to G-Bay as a suspect terrorist (he did threaten a mass murder at a school). It would have been a lot worse to serve a longer sentence in a US prison or even face years without a trial.