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| You will stay in jail until you die |
| 2008-02-23 |
| You will stay in jail until you die, judge tells the Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright became one of the select few prisoners to be told that they will never be released when he was sentenced yesterday for murdering five women. The killer whose reign of fear lasted six weeks in the winter of 2006 was taken under high security to Belmarsh prison, in South London, where he was placed on suicide watch. Mr Justice Gross told Wright at Ipswich Crown Court that the campaign of murder had led to his “sombre conclusion” that Wright should die in jail. Only 35 other people in the British penal system, including Rose West and Ian Brady, have been told that their life sentences should mean life. Wow- truth in sentencing. What a concept. Wright, 49, a former publican, killed, stripped and disposed of the women, all of whom worked as prostitutes and were addicted to hard drugs. The families of some of his victims called for him to face the death penalty after a jury found him guilty on Thursday of murdering Tania Nicol, 19, Gemma Adams, 25, Anneli Alderton, 24, Annette Nicholls, 29, and Paula Clennell, 24. Wright’s brother, David, and sister, Jeanette, sat behind the families of some of the victims in the courtroom at Ipswich Crown Court, and sobbed as the judge handed down the sentences. The serial killer sat impassively in the dock and stared straight ahead as his sentence was handed down, occasionally taking a sip of water. The judge said that he had reached his “sombre conclusion” after considering the facts and arguments put forward by prosecution and defence lawyers. “I must pass a sentence which meets the justice of the case,” he said. “In my judgment upon reflection it must be a whole-life term. It is right you should spend your whole life in prison. This was a targeted campaign of murder.” Mr Justice Gross said Wright had targeted vulnerable women. “Drugs and prostitution meant they were at risk. But neither drugs nor prostitution killed them. You did. " So if this (dare I say) EVIL man is going to stay in prison for good, shouldn't they just execute him now? Even if he lives only 10 more years, wouldn't that cost be far more than a gallows and some rope? |
| Posted by:Free Radical |
| #3 The Brits are throwing criminals in jail? That *is* newsworthy! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-02-23 19:04 |
| #2 suicide watch? If I were in charge, that would be a pay-per-view webcam and providing long strips of cloth, shoelaces, and a belt along with convenient points of attachment along the ceiling. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-02-23 16:03 |
| #1 Mr. Wright is a very powerful man. He's taken five lives. The State in all its manifest glory can't take one. For the same reason, fellows, just like Mr. Wright, effect our daily lives as we choose not to travel to certain parts of our urban communities, why we worry where our children are when the night comes, and why we lock our doors and windows sealing ourselves in nightly. Who says the death penalty doesn't alter behavior? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-02-23 15:50 |