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Finding the right sentence
Leicester Mercury
|May 06, 2025
YOU BE THE JUDGE: CRIME & PUNISHMENT
WHAT sentence would you give a 17-year-old who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death with a kitchen knife?
If a drunk man fatally attacked someone in the street, but said he didn’t mean it, would you hand out a lighter sentence?
How many years would you give a man who filmed himself driving at over 120mph on a motorway before he crashed into a car, killing a pregnant mother, her baby and seriously injuring two children?
This story is from the May 06, 2025 edition of Leicester Mercury.
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