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A judge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country’s soaring knife crime epidemic.
Last week in his valedictory address, retiring Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge spoke of his concern that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles and called on the Government to ban the sale of large pointed kitchen knives.
[...] He said laws designed to reduce the availability of weapons to young would-be offenders had had “almost no effect”, since the vast majority had merely taken knives from a cutlery drawer.
[...] He asked: “But why we do need eight-inch or ten-inch kitchen knives with points?
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Knives are too Sharp and Filing Down their Points is Solution to Soaring Violent Crime, Judge Says
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Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Friday June 01 2018, @10:41PM (1 child)
In the UK a "real life sentence" is very rare. There is always a psychiatrist who will sign on to let the perp go free after a few years as some sort of experiment. Further murders by the same perp are then not unusual. Only really high profile murderers get real life sentences because there would be such public outcry if they were released, such as the Kray twins, and the Brady/Hindley moors murderers.
When the death sentence was abolished in the UK, it was by hoodwinking the public into thinking that murderers would never be released, but of course that would have cost more.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @05:03PM
IPP was scrapped in 2012 [theweek.co.uk] unfortunately.