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16 Year Old, Life Sentence For Mugging

ventura | 16.10.2006 16:32 | Liverpool

A headline from the early 1970's

Befor this headline mugging someone in Liverpool slang was giving them a few bob.At the time a Birmingham crown court judge said he did not like this new trend of violent street robbery and was going to make an example.Which he duly did.Sentencing two 16 year old boys to life in jail.At that time not just the liberal media thought it was too harsh and the judge had to backtrack saying it was a shock tactic and reduce the sentence.But for a while it had the desired effect and mugging stopped for some time.But that was then and this is now.When its commonplace but the sentences are too lenient.Time to let them judges slam them away for life.

ventura

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  1. Moronic article- learn what 'life' means as a sentence. — twilight
  2. morons reply — ventura