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A few weeks ago I wrote in defence of the sentence handed out to Chris Langham.
It is, however, sentences like this, which bring the criminal justice system into disrepute. Micahel Porter admitted that over fourteen years he committed 24 indecent assaults on children, one of whom was an 18-month-old baby.
His sentence? A three-year community rehabilitation order.
Langham is now in prison, awaiting sentence. However vile his crime, he was not convicted of a single assault. Porter spent fourteen years abusing children, and walks free.
What justice? What consistency? What sense?
(Maybe they just ran out of space.)
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