Do you think the scottish justice system is a joke.?

Question

people getting out of jail after 3 years for murdering someone(personal experiance). getting 8 or more years for fraud or robbery or less.and less than half for killing someone.short sentences or community service at the most for crimes deserve hell of a lot more that is why people dont think twice about stabbing you i think its getting out of control. what do you think.

Answer 1

I don't know much about the Scottish justice system so I can't really comment on it. However, I wonder if it is as bad as the English justice system, which is practically failing. What you describe sounds very similar to the English system, except, in my experience, the English system is probably far worse.

What I don't understand is why criminals appear to have more human rights than victims. I see this over and over in the English justice system.

Answer 2

I would say yes it is one big joke. I am also Scottish and I think its disgraceful the punishments and sentences that are handed out to murderers, rapists, paedophiles etc are far too lenient or they dont even make it to court. There is a man who has set up an organisation his name is Paul dont know his surname and he was on local radio recently (talk107) saying that he and some others have kitted theirselves out with blacked out people carrier and some night vision googles (donated by Lidl) and at night they sit outside known paedophiles houses and watch them etc to make sure that the public are safe because when these dangerous people are let out of jail or are released from a bail hostel etc they are not being properly supervised so this great man and his team are watching these scum and are helping to protect all our children. They cannot get in trouble for sitting outside a paedophiles house because they go to all the neighbours houses and let them know what they are doing and if the police are called then the neighbours all say he is visiting them etc, There really needs to be more people watching these paedophiles because the police, courts etc do not do enough to protect our children. Not forgetting many bad crimes dont even make it into the inside of a court.

Answer 3

Its not just the scottish system it is the british system for example The Guinness Four, Ernest Saunders, Gerald Ronson, Jack Lyons, Anthony Parnes. They were involved in an attempt to manipulate the stock market on a massive scale to inflate the price of Guinness shares and thereby assist a £2.7 billion take-over bid for the Scottish drinks company Distillers. Ernest Saunders, Gerald Ronson, Jack Lyons and Anthony Parnes, the so-called "Guinness four", were charged, paid heavy fines and, with the exception of Lyons, who was suffering from ill-health, served prison sentences later reduced on appeal. Despite ill health and now in his 90s. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland. As with fellow Guinness defendant Gerald Ronson, Jack Lyons, is once again a fixture at swanky gatherings; polite society has forgotten about his criminal conviction, if it ever cared about it. However a man convicted of defrauding £46.78p from the DHSS was sentenced to 3 months in prison.

Answer 4

The justice system in Scotland was for many years superior to that of England and Wales. However this government have so hamstrung it with politically correct nonsense and Human Rights that it is now a pretty pathetic shadow of it's former self.The Scottish Executive have not helped with all their nonsense on the same lines.

Answer 5

In all these things each case is judged and dealt with individually, remember sentence guidlines are issued from the Home Office and dictated by statute and any good lawyer can help you get away with anything....OJ Simpson for example

Answer 6

Scotish English! Britain as a whole the law has become so weak it can hardly make it from week to week its gone upside down

Answer 7

Don't think so.
Should see the one in Iraq.
Even in hanging their own president.
Who was trying to protect their country and it's people.
When someone else tried to overthrow the president in planet of apes.
Ever wonder who were making a monkey out of themselves in planet of apes?
Is that what we call Justice?
For taking care of the people and it's country in planet of apes.

Answer 8

Nothin' Scottish is a joke Laddie......
Sey thut agin an al gee ya a moof o' ya dandruff !

Answer 9

i'm beginning to think all justice systems are a joke. if you have money you can purchase "justice" anywhere in the world.

Answer 10

Of course it is!