An excellent piece of deduction Bough save for the fact that Pitchfork was caught using DNA evidence then pleading guilty to all of the charges levelled against him.
Because viewpoints are different to your own Mr Hole then that does not necessarily make it an ignorant one, so I am appalled at your scurrilous early morning aspersions posted to forum and have taken the liberty to cancel your rock order.
If you lock up an offender for criminal activity then that criminal cannot reoffend whilst he is locked away and so society remains protected. All we really need to do is build more prisons for the non compliant ones to live out their days.
Whilst I believe in the possible rehabilitation of offenders, what I do not believe in is the cyclical rinse repeat return of criminals that show little desire for reform with prison the only viable long term solution with longer sentencing to reflect the levels of non conformity .
As discussed there are many socio economic difficulties that contribute to their actions, but society simply has to be protected. If they cannot behave then remove those elements to a place of incarceration were they can no longer cause hurt/harm for periods of time more conducive to the misery caused.
Sentencing is beyond the lax and it's high time for change ... Discuss.
So this case is beyond all doubt, but what does that mean? It doesn't mean there will have been no miscarriages of justice in other cases based on errors or misreading of forensic evidence.
e. g. Barry George.
How about corrupt officers tampering evidence and forcing confessions?
Let's change the facts slightly, suppose he wore a condom and wore protective clothing so he didn't bleed at the scene. The DNA evidence that convicted him isn't there to exonerate Richard Buckland.
It’s entirely possible in the modern era with greater awareness through CSI etc on TV and the Internet, that rapists who snatch women of the street are likely to make greater preparations to avoid leaving forensic evidence.
But we haven't removed the risk that the police may force confessions from innocent "oddballs", there will never be no corruption in the police force.
Ignorant because you obviously haven't looked up the average length of prison sentence compared to 10 or twenty years ago. I've given just some information in my posts.
Or how we compare to other Western European countries.
Do you think the environment within prisons is at all important?
People that rear animals know that they need a minimum amount of space per animal for their wellbeing, otherwise they might become stressed and exhibit violence and other negative behaviour and fight for social position.
For human beings who are returned to society, this is even more important, no?
Maybe we shouldn't put them into prisons above capacity, where there might be two or three in a cell, all sharing the same toilet?
