Just watching BBC News and the banner headline is ...
"Sentences for people who carry out acid attacks in England and Wales
could be increased as part of a "wide ranging" review,
following a rise in incidents."
What a load of cobblers!
Yet another knee-jerk reaction from a weak government that needs to show that it is doing "something" after the media has raised hue and cry.
Throwing acid at someone is a pure and simple Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH) and the only "increase" available to the current sentence of "Life Imprisonment" is to hang the buggers; and I doubt that they will introduce that sentence!
Rather than yet again increasing our laws, all the Police and Judiciary have to do is to apply the ones that we already have in force ...
... and hand maximum sentences to the evil bustards that commit this type of offence.
http://www.grayandcosolicitors.co.uk/section-20-assault-and-section-18-assault-grievous-bodily-harm/
"Sentences for people who carry out acid attacks in England and Wales
could be increased as part of a "wide ranging" review,
following a rise in incidents."
What a load of cobblers!
Yet another knee-jerk reaction from a weak government that needs to show that it is doing "something" after the media has raised hue and cry.
Throwing acid at someone is a pure and simple Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH) and the only "increase" available to the current sentence of "Life Imprisonment" is to hang the buggers; and I doubt that they will introduce that sentence!
Rather than yet again increasing our laws, all the Police and Judiciary have to do is to apply the ones that we already have in force ...
... and hand maximum sentences to the evil bustards that commit this type of offence.
http://www.grayandcosolicitors.co.uk/section-20-assault-and-section-18-assault-grievous-bodily-harm/