WILLIAM CORNICK, the 16-year-old murderer of his
teacher Ann Maguire has got it made. Sentenced to a 20 year minimum which he
will not serve because, in our liberal age, sentences are widely comparable to
works of fiction. But in Cornick's case, his sentence has already drawn
criticism from a former magistrate, Penelope Gibbs, who is quoted in today's Daily Mail, telling the BBC's Today programme that; "‘We are out of line with the whole of western Europe [good].
There are no other countries within Western Europe which give children - and
this boy is seen as a child under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
and is in the youth justice system - who would give children a life sentence."
Ms Gibbs will be the first of many to complain in
the coming months; for as memory fades of the brutal murder and it circumstance,
more human rights lawyers will step forward to help young Cornick regain his
freedom long before the minimum sentence is served.
Young Cornick may even become a liberal cause celeb. Why
they bother I do not know. He will be living in conditions while in custody
that many millions of our law-abiding- citizens would be envious of; he will be
cosseted over by drooling psychiatrists eager to understand and pontificate on their
findings throughout the fraternity of head inspectors world-wide: and they will
have a far greater say in his release date than either the likes of Ms Gibb, the
human rights lawyers (although they will try to help with his parole); and
certainly not the British public - or even those at the bottom of the food
chain…the wretched and grieving Maguire family.
A rightly cynical British public have as much faith in a
judge's sentence, as they have in a politician delivering a straight answer to
a troubling question. Every aspect of this nation's once respected institutions
are now distrusted by the people; including justice for the victim of a brutal
crime.
The criminal, in many cases, has become the victim; as will
assuredly William Cornick one day, long before he is due to be released. There
will be a band wagon set in motion by the liberal great and good – they will gush
their sympathies for the Maguire family of course; but will remind us that
William Cornick, was not your average working class oik of the type that killed
Stephen Lawrence; but a well-behaved,
well-liked son of a middle class family who was considered bright and even
gifted.
A self-confessed psychopath, Cornick, will be quickly
dissuaded from such a 'self- loathing' judgement by the shrinks; who will
consider it evidence of his mental condition and not an accurate description of
his behaviour. They will study how such an accommodating, easy going young man
could rise to the challenge of sticking a knife into someone, with the intention
of following through on two other teachers he had in his sight.
My guess is, that he will be 'cured' by such psycho-babble,
and a release day will be announced (in 10 years or less). He will be given anonymity
and sent to live somewhere in one of our coastal towns…thus making murder the
gift that goes on giving.
JUSTICE FOR THE VICTIM
is a meagre dish; especially served up to the dead. Being dead allows the authorities
to concentrate on the living, and in a liberal society like our own; it means
justice for the perpetrators of the crime.
The only justice criminals are entitled to is due process
including a fair trial; and if found guilty; justice should move back to the
victim when it comes to sentencing. Because someone dies, it does not mean that
their killer should be treated with the same sympathy as his or her victim in
terms of shortened sentences.
The criminal justice system is becoming just another of our
country's institutions monopolised by the liberalista that faces the disparaging
and mocking contempt of the British public outside of Metropolitan London.
The Maguire family may view a 20-year minimum sentence as
justice. But how will they feel if Cornick is released before the minimum sentence.
Remember, a minimum sentence infers a much longer one because of the
seriousness of the crime; which is why Ms Gibbs is up in arms over the judge's
decision.
I AM NOT ADVOCATING
that Cornick should ever be hung for his crime; and neither would the Maguire
family. But when, in the 1960s, hanging was outlawed it was accepted by the
population on the basis that life would mean life for the murderer. Life for life
was the then liberal compromise for ending capital punishment.
At the time I myself opposed capital punishment, but
believed that murder, of a type planned and cold-bloodedly carried out, of the
kind that Cornick used to kill his teacher, would mean a life sentence: it
would mean a rebuke for the murderer who denied his or her victim not only a life;
but a free life. A life to be enjoyed (in the Maguire case) with her family, her
children and grandchildren or even great grandchildren. She had the right to
die in her own time measured, not by an imbecile wielding a knife; but by time
itself, as we all expect to do in the end.
Why should this mentally deranged individual become the
victim of liberal sympathy? He should he
be kept under lock for the rest of his life and not allowed back into civilised
society where, as on many occasions, recidivism has emerged to the embarrassment
of the liberal establishment. We have heard of cases where murderers have been
deemed fit and ready to rejoin society, only to return to the confinement from
which they were released through recidivism…life should mean life.
In any civilised society there should be the ultimate
sanction; it was once capital punishment: it should now mean life being life.
If it is not to be capital punishment, then a life sentence delivered by a
judge should not be picked over and shortened. It should mean life…and only
life.
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