JAIL MAKES THEM BIGGER AND BETTER YOBS

Further to my last post I have just got to say I am absolutely aghast at the killing of the young girl in London. The answer - when the perpetrator is caught he should be tried and put under lock and key for a very long time.

However, having said this the question posed here which I failed to answer was "Should yobs who carry knives be jailed?" I have to be upfront and say that I worked in legal offices for 22 years and my husband worked in Crown Law.

We both think, based on our experiences, that young offenders who are given jail terms go in and come out having learned how to bigger and better things.

One offender in particular I remember was one of twins, brought up in the same household and therefore exposed to the same mistakes, love and care as one another. At the time, he was into the business of stealing cars (not so bad as knife crime obviously) but his activities incurred a jail term. At Court, another solicitor this character did not know turned up to represent him and he listened in the Court foyer to this yob and his friends who were with him, planning their next robbery. After he was released his next crime was murder. He spent his time in jail socialising with other crims whose anger against society made all things we find abhorrent normal.

We believe that jail time is not the answer. There must be laws which prohibit people from carrying an offensive weapons, to stop and search and confiscate deadly weapons and quite obviously they should never be given back to their owners at any time. Stop being fearful to provide Police with more powers to apply harsher penalities which should be applied on their behinds with the birch. Shock treatment may well be the answer but something needs to be done now for it seems almost too late.

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