The BBC new website is reporting about 5 boys being convicted of manslaughter and violent disorder, and yet their sentence is only two years of home detention.   I realize that the “boys” are between 12 and 14, but manslaughter is manslaughter, it’s not spraying four letter words on a wall.  What kind of message are we as a society sending out if a life is thought only to be worth 2 years of being kept inside a comfortable home surrounded by people who care for you?  They killed another human, someone who belonged to a family who must now continue their lives without him.  It doesn’t seem right that the people guilty of his death are allowed to spend their punishment period with theirs.

Serious crimes are being increasingly carried out by kids in this age bracket and it’s time that the law was changed so that anyone who is convicted of a crime that takes a life is liable to be punished by more than a slap on the hand.  

On a more positive note. This is what I’m going to change next the problem prone skin pages

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