FuLL Story: Mandatory gun crime sentences 'not being imposed' - Telegraph

brief :
Judges
are not imposing enough mandatory five-year jail terms on criminals convicted of gun possession, a Government minister said yesterday.

Nearly two thirds of those caught with firearms are escaping the minimum jail terms set out in the 2003 Criminal Justice Act.
The defendants are claiming exceptional circumstances - measures intended for those who simply forget to renew gun licences rather than thugs on the streets -to get away with lesser sentences.

According to Home Office figures for 2005, only about 40 per cent of people convicted of being in possession of a firearm received the minimum jail term set out in the Criminal Justice Act - three years for 16- to 17-year-olds and five years for adults.

EXAMPLE :
*British soldier (Christopher Trussler ) was caught selling
1) 21 rounds of 9mm ammunition for fifty pounds .
2) could obtain an AK47 for £1,500 .
3) and had access to a ROCKET LAUNCHER .

And got a three year jail sentence

^^^ This whole business of extremely lenient "let-off" sentences comes down to one simple fact - there aren't enough prison places. Soon, we'll have a UK prison population of 100,000 inmates. So, even if the government and criminal justice system did suddenly develop a backbone, and started sending these scumbags away for ten years at a time, it couldn't last. The prisons would be at bursting point almost immediately and prisoners would complain that their "human rights" were being abused by living in such cramped conditions. Boo hoo - somebody hand me a tissue.

When I was at school, we had foreign exchange visits from pupils across Europe and beyond. We got the occasional trip abroad and the chance to see other places/cultures. So, why doesn't the government put British prisoners on foreign exchange trips to, say.... Tehran and Baghdad? We'd see the crime rate drop 80% in six months, lol.

Come to think of it, the 2012 Olympics is going to cost over £9 billion. We could use the prisoners as extremely cheap labour to rebuild the East End. Follow the Chinese example.



Chinese prison inmates await instructions for another day's hard labour.