Hall's 'unduly lenient' term doubled

[Win2Win Racing]

Former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall's 15-month sentence for a series of indecent assaults is doubled by the Court of Appeal.

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Hall's 'unduly lenient' term doubled

[Win2Win]

What a naughty boy :spank: .... It should be 10 years minimum for what he done :anerikke:

[barneymather]

The image Hall and Savile had in the 70s was one
more of less of national treasure but now the reputation of each couldn't sink any lower.

Both had the gall to face the camera, laugh and joke with the public and present themselves as everybody's friend yet all the time they were abusing young people.

Beyond belief and I'm certain there were those at the BBC who knew or at least strongly suspected either of wrongdoing but did nothing about it in case it harmed their careers.

Hall has to live with the guilt and shame and so should other BBC employees who did nothing about his and Savile's behaviour.

[MattR]

So with our laughable serving of prison time that means as it is doubled he now actually serves 15 months. What a joke the sentencing is. And don't even get me started on sentences for other crimes running concurrently.

[Win2Win]

Remember that Lester Piggott got 12 months for tax fraud..... so stealing off the government is nearly as bad as child abuse :crazy: :voodoo:

[barneymather]

I can't see the point when one sentence is handed out for one crime and another sentence is given for a different offence as I've never heard of the jail terms being given consecutively - they're always concurrent.

Where's the sense in that? It just seems to be a legal box which has to be ticked. The judge has to issue separate sentences for different offences but he always makes the term concurrent, although I'm sure judicial discretion could be used at least some of the time to make the sentence consecutive. However, the lily-livered judge invariably chickens out of invoking the latter option.

Financial wrongdoing always attracts a stiff sentence. Someone nicks a load of cash - and I'm talking money obtained via fraud rather than violence - and you read of offenders getting 6 or 8 years. Yet rapists and child abusers receive lesser sentences. Is our legal system :censored: up or what?

[vegyjones]

So with our laughable serving of prison time that means as it is doubled he now actually serves 15 months. What a joke the sentencing is. And don't even get me started on sentences for other crimes running concurrently.

Plus he'll get the last four months out on electronic tag so will only actually serve 11 months in prison

[Win2Win]

They should wire the electric tag straight into the mains and fry the bugger :biggrin:

[MattR]

It is ridiculous. It's basically saying if you commit a crime you may as well do a few more similar ones as you'll only serve time for one of them :rolleyes:

[barneymather]

They should wire the electric tag straight into the mains and fry the bugger :biggrin:

I'll put the money in the meter. Dirty old get. 80 odd Hall may be, but another wrinkly crim might just shout "It's a knockout" and clobber the suntanned sleazo.

[Win2Win]

I see Twitter have said they will now include a button. To be honest, they should have one, as it is the only way to start putting a stop to stupid trolls.

[scoobydoo]

We seem to have gone from a country that maybe was once too harsh on criminals to one now where punishments dont fit the crime at all.

[Win2Win]

Well we can't jail people, we need to think about their human rights :rolleyes: .... plus think of the cost of keeping someone in jail, it is cheaper to give them a holiday in Las Vegas :crazy:

[tovarich]

Or turn the prisons into holiday camps.
Prisons should be corrective not educational and when you are sent to prison you should lose all your basic rights. Prison life shoud be such that when you come out you will be determined not to go back in again.

No pool tables, only two hours of TV a night, no Sky TV, no football on Wednesday afternoons, no mobile phones allowed.

Three meals a day, yes (unlike some OAP's) Warm centrally heated accommodation, ok (unlike some OAP's)

You should all vote for Tov to be put in charge of the judiciary, I'd sort the *******s out.:headbange

[Win2Win]

No football!!!! Execution would be much kinder :laugh

[tovarich]

Got to say I'm all for bringing back Capital Punishment, especially for killing Police Officers and anyone who has not reached their 18th birthday. (Children)

Maybe some day!

[Win2Win]

Plus anyone over 65 who is a drain on society :wink: :laugh

[barneymather]

Oo-er, I just hope Keith hasn't incurred the wrath of notorious organisation the BAP (Bad Assed Pensioners) with that comment.

They say that if you find a discarded Werther's Original wrapper outside your front door you're a goner. :yikes:

A rumoured favourite method of BAP in disposing with their enemies is suffocation with a copy of The People's Friend.

[Win2Win]

I hear that Price Charles hates really old people as well.... one in particular :laugh