>> 27 Aug 2004
As part of the plans to grow ATW we are pleased to announce a new regular weekly feature provided by a brand new contributor to this tangled web -
"Court Hawk."
Here's the deal. Not a week goes by without some ludicrous sentence being handed out to miscreants in our local courts. In some cases, these are even worse than those handed out in mainland UK. Yet they are often buried away in the media undergrowth as the Northern Ireland judiciary appear to compete with each other to see who can produce the most ridiculous sentences.
"Court Hawk" will be circling to pick out the most newsworthy stories for our interest.
The areas of sentencing that we wish to examine include;
Murder in all its forms, even if plea-bargained to manslaughter,Serious assaults
Aggravated burglaries, Car-crime causing serious injury or death to third parties (excluding the car criminals themselves) Serious social nuisance such as persistent vandalism, intimidation, anti-social behaviour,Fuel smuggling and diesel laundering, Serious dumping and pollution
"Court Hawk" will be providing a weekly summary of the worst instances of Judicial stupidity. We will furthern develop the format over the week ahead but the plain intent is to highlight specific examples of justice gone very badly wrong.
"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT" should make you feel angry at the madness carried out in our Courts. My hope is that we can develop a central resource here that collates the most wretched instances of justice gone badly wrong - which could be used by those who then want to take this issue further.
We will shortly publish the first "Crime and Punishment" on ATW and I do hope you will find it stimulating reading. "Court Hawk's" talons are sharpened ready to pounce when justice goes wrong. Have a read and feed us back your thoughts please.
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