HARRY Bradbury (Star, September 7) is right to highlight the responsibility of Parliament for the appallingly lenient sentence given to the killer of Len Saunders but completely wrong in his attempt to pin the blame on the UK’s membership of the EU.
Quite simply, the UK has no competence whatever in this area.
As things stand, the UK will be out of the EU in just over 18 months so people will have to find something else to whinge about as the imagined source of all the country’s ills.
The town’s MPs should approach the Crown Prosecution Service to see if there are any grounds on which the sentence can be appealed with a view to increasing it bearing in mind the judge’s remarks at the sentencing.
If this is not possible they should promote legislation to drastically increase the range of penalties available in such cases. Ministers would find it very difficult to resist this.
Four years and four months is a ridiculous sentence. With remission, the individual in question could be walking the streets again in just over two years. This should not happen.
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