Bag's Rants

Is this what is called punishment?

Reading this article on a Pedophile being jailed for raping a man and two years two months for 'failing to notify police of a change in his sex offender status'.

What does 'failing to notify police of a change in his sex offender status' mean? I'm sure that it must mean something like telling them where he is living or something. Surely they don't expect him to phone up and say I've just raped someone else so knock me up a notch on the weirdo list. Surely status means exactly that, he is or he isn't, he is a minor threat or a big threat. Now isn't that for the police to specify not him. I just don't understand why they don't just say what they mean.

Additionally according to the article. He got an indeterminate sentence for the rape. He got three years for sexual assault and two years two months for the failure to notify. All sentences to run concurrently. So basically he only gets the longest sentence. He is to serve a minimum of five and a half years for this. Pretty low you may think considering his other two crimes alone come to nearly that. But such is British justice.

But wait, this wasn't the first time. He had 11 previous convictions for 25 offences and nine of the offences were of a serious sexual nature and included serious sexual offences against children. What! How this guy was even out of jail to commit the next crime is beyond me. Five and a half years. He should never be out while he is alive anyway.

In the meantime OAPs are being put in jail for being poor. British justice.

posted by Bag @ 12:22 pm