Sarah Everard murder | Wayne Couzens given whole-life sentence

[Blue Mist]

I have literally never had to deal with the police in my life. Thank god.

The police are no doubt very grateful as well. The thought of you reporting a crime ........

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

He's probably craving death at this moment
Here's hoping for decades and decades of sheer fucking boredom fear and misery

He deserves far worse than your average season ticket holder at the swamp?

 

[Blue Mist]

Pretty clear from this thread that some people understand the dangerous power the police have and that other people simply choose to ignore it to make their own lives easier.

Wow

 

[west didsblue]

Difficult one to call, this. The abuse of trust, the planning and premeditation, the targeting of a lone female, the mental suffering she must have endured, the rape and the destruction of the body collectively point to a whole life tariff, but his guilty pleas have to be taken into account for public policy reasons.

I'm guessing a minimum tarrif of 40 years, which pretty much amounts to the same as a whole life tariff. Imagine being nearly 90 and being released from prison after 40 years inside, in the unlikely event he got parole. Anyone would be absolutely bewildered and terrified

I suspect that, as a serving police officer, he knew that the crime would attract a whole life tariff and knew that the evidence of his guilt was overwhelming. Pleading guilty was just a cynical attempt to get 30 years instead of whole life imo. Thankfully he failed.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Good decision. He’ll probably top himself but I hope he doesn’t. Rather he spends 40 years rotting in a cell with the guilt eating away at him and wondering whether someone with a sharp object will get him

 

[west didsblue]

Good decision. He’ll probably top himself but I hope he doesn’t. Rather he spends 40 years rotting in a cell with the guilt eating away at him and wondering whether someone with a sharp object will get him

The guilt won't eat away at him because he didn't have a shred of empathy or remorse. Every emotion he has displayed since being caught has been self pity.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Fair enough. I’ve never had anything to do with the fuzz, apart from a few parties at Hough End.

I even had a little sign kept in my glove compartment that said "I will follow you to the nearest police station'' :-)

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I even had a little sign kept in my glove compartment that said "I will follow you to the nearest police station'' :-)

You’d get tazered these days if you reached for your glove box unexpectedly!

 

[Phil Mitchell Foden]

I have literally never had to deal with the police in my life. Thank god.

Are you a hermit? Never been to a game of football?

 

[Phil Mitchell Foden]

Good decision. He’ll probably top himself but I hope he doesn’t. Rather he spends 40 years rotting in a cell with the guilt eating away at him and wondering whether someone with a sharp object will get him

I don't think someone capable of doing that would feel guilt mate.

The bad thing is, he'll probably end up on the secure/medical ward of Belmarsh separate from other inmates living the rest of his life out peacefully, at least according to the account of a well known screw about what happens to high profile inmates: