I wonder if their heavy-handedness on that vigil was born of a desire to nip in the bud any kind of social response to Couzens' atrocity. They could probably justify it to themselves as some kind of "preserving public order" thing, and I expect that's exactly what they did.
much less - for junior barristers criminal defence sometimes works out at less than the minimum wage once preparation, travel etc is taken into account. I'd imagine with high profile cases like this they'll make sure it's someone more senior, but it's still nothing like hundreds of pounds an hour.
Perhaps we need something like the equivalent of a D-notice for people incarcerated for particular offences - they simply cease to exist in public discourse. I always found the stream of prison stories around the likes of the Yorkshire Ripper rather unpleasant, so maybe there needs to be an add-on to the whole life sentence that, essentially, the convicted individual becomes a non-person for the purposes of media coverage.
I also really feel for the woman who witnessed Sarah Everard being put into the police car in handcuffs and who reasonably enough assumed it was a standard arrest. She's probably wondering if she could/should have done something to prevent it, despite not having realised at the time anything was wrong.
They get segregated with other sex offenders, bent cops and grasses. As Plumdaff said, a special wing, rule 43.
I personally know two people who would have been executed if the death penalty for these sorts of offences was in place. Both were found innocent on appeal, but one spent a year inside and the other two years. The false accusations and the time inside hung heavily on both, but at least they had a chance to clear their names and rebuild their lives.
All of this. The bogey man still exists, whatever we do with this particular one.
This ^ kind of thing seems to me to be part of the problem -- men (I'm guessing you're male marshall?) coming over all violent and vengeful when it comes to protecting their womenfolk or defending their honour or whatever.The family? As someone with two 20-something daughters living in London, I would find some degree of comfort in taking a blow torch to him if I was in their frankly unimaginable situation. Which I know reflects poorly on me, but whatever the parents want, or think helps in the grieving process is fine with me. Getting a bit medieval this
Have found them a tad predatory on a couple of the few occasions I've had to deal with them.
doesn't matter the field of human endeavour, be it building a house or committing a murder, you don't become that proficient without practice. contrary to popular belief, people very rarely rise to an occasion, they generally sink to the level of their training. now, it's possible to have some inklings of how other people have gone about things from tv shows. but considering the matter theoretically and carrying it out practically are two different things.
if you could trust them
Seems unusual to suddenly commit a rape and murder aged 48 with no previous.
Good.
