Railway vandal's sentence reduced (BBC News)
 

An ex-rail worker who caused disruption on the railways across the West Midlands has his sentence cut.

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Unbelievable.

Adam

It says it all about our justice system does'nt it.
He shows genuine remorse, then laughs all the way back to his luxurious cell with his colour tv and 3 good meals a day.
Sorry but it is a joke. He should have got a longer, not shorter sentence.

Paul.

Amazing. Yes, our justice system is a joke. :mad:

'Amazing. Yes, our justice system is a joke.'
I seem to remember saying those very words a few weeks ago.

Prison isnt an easy ride everyone thinks that giving prisioners comforts such as TVs etc makes their life asy but they have no freedom whatsoever.

PS I think his sentance should have stayed at 10 years he will be allowed out after 5 anyway for good behaviour. Its like Gary Hart and Lee Huges they were let out for good beahviour despite causing death by dangerous driving. Gary Hart was then re-learning to drive shortly after he was relased from jail and I thought he was banned from driving for x years how can his prision years be taken as part of his ban. I think those that cause death by dangerous driving should be locked up with a minimum sentance of 10 years and be banned from driving for life.

'Prison isn't an easy ride everyone thinks that giving prisoners comforts such as TVs etc makes their life easy but they have no freedom whatsoever.'

If they can't do the time then they should not do the crime. The victims of people like Hart & Huges don't have any time or freedom whatsoever now, as they don't have a life. I think they should have been charged with murder and sent down for life (minimum of 20 years) as should anyone who causes death by dangerous driving.

No, our overcrowded and squalid Victorian prisons aren't an easy option.

But, its not the sentence that deters people, its the feeling that they can get away with it, whether it is burglary, reckless driving, or yobbo behaviour in the street.

So setting fire to railway signal cables when you are easily going to get caught makes him stupid in more than one sense.