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Less than a year for each life sentence33 life sentences equating to 30 years? Wtf is even the point?
I hope he dies horribly in jail, and the sooner the better. That is all.

Less than a year for each life sentence33 life sentences equating to 30 years? Wtf is even the point?
I hope he dies horribly in jail, and the sooner the better. That is all.
Less than a year for each life sentence![]()
Snipped from Legally's post above
Whole life sentence not to be imposed
The judge has commented on news that the prosecution would ask for a whole life tariff.
"While theoretically possible to issue a whole life tariff for cases that do not involve murder, it is in practice not applied to any case not involving murder."
He added that a life sentence was not being requested and would not be applied.
Perhaps practice needs to change then - this is an insult to his victims who have to carry their sentence for the rest of their lives.
He will be 64 when he is eligible for parole - I doubt he will last that long, but even so, he should have been given a whole of life sentence, just to remove any thought in his head that he might one day be free and to give his victims peace of mind.
Info on his ASBO, aged 14, from that link:Piece on McCann when he was young:
Baby-faced Asbo **** to serial rapist - how Joseph McCann terrorised Manchester
I understand why no whole life tariff but I still would have liked to have seen it as I dont think he should ever be released.
Hopefully when he has served his minimum term they will still class him as a danger and he wont get out.
Thanks LB for the updates.
In August 2017, he was arrested for burglary and theft and given a three-and-a-half year prison sentence. The halfway point of this sentence was reached in February 2019, when he was automatically released.
Why was the family childhood house bulldozed?!
Does that mean the 30 year sentence could also be halved??I don't understand why sentences are halved. I mean what is the point then, giving a sentence of xx years when they get out after half the time served anyway?
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JM said he's 'killed someone'. I guess he'll not confess to Police..if this claim is true.
If statement is true, I wonder if Police have any theories as to who he killed, and whether evidence will be virtually impossible to gather as time passed.
No, the 30 years has been set as an minimum this time so release isn't an option until at least 2049, and even then I doubt he'll ever get out given the severity of his sentence. I'd put money on him being dead by then anyway.
Yes. No idea if it's true or he was just saying it as a threat. I find it believable.Was that in one of the articles?
No, the 30 years has been set as an minimum this time so release isn't an option until at least 2049, and even then I doubt he'll ever get out given the severity of his sentence. I'd put money on him being dead by then anyway.
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