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    Opfer und Hinterbliebene erhalten mehr Zeit, gegen „unangemessen milde“ Urteile vorzugehen


    Opfer und Hinterbliebene erhalten mehr Zeit, gegen „unangemessen milde“ Urteile vorzugehen

    https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr/08/victims-and-bereaved-families-to-get-more-time-to-challenge-unduly-lenient-sentences

    Von topotaul

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    1. IsyABM on

      The legal system genuinely doesn’t work for victims any more.

      Victim of theft, rape, employment abuse?

      You’re in for a confusing, expensive, and emotionally raw ride with no real scope for just and dignified outcomes.

      Every victim is collateral damage in this system that doesn’t prioritise care for upstanding humans.

    2. CalicoCatRobot on

      I can see some sense in extending the time limit, but the point of a justice system is that it is specifically not left to victims to decide sentences.

      Of course their impact statements are vital and important part of judging the impact an offence has had, which is relevant to sentencing, and the system needs to find better ways to make things easier for them, but should someone get a lesser sentence if the victim forgives them? Or longer if the victim feels particularly strongly that they can never forgive them?

      The point is that guidelines are in place for judges to come to their decision, and if they have been followed correctly, an appeal against sentence rarely has any chance regardless.

      Maybe there should be better checks to ensure guidelines have been followed, particularly with longer sentences, instead of relying on victims, or media attention, to throw up cases where the guidelines have been ignored.

      I guess this is a cheap change so easy to do, but I’d rather funding went into improving victim support services, with things like support & therapy where needed, than pretending this will make much of a difference to victims in reality.

    3. GhostRiders on

      We have some of the worst re-offending rates in Europe and that is due to the Prison Service and Probation being massively undefended and that is largely due to the attitude of the British Public.

      People want longer sentences, well that is going to cost significantly more money because the more people you send to prison and the longer sentences you give them means significantly more prison places are needed which means many more new prisons being built and those prison need to be staffed.

      You want those going into prison not re-offending when they have served their sentences, that means investing in Probation, support groups, housing, help with finding work, education etc..

      Yet when you talk about the need for more money in regards to the Prison Service and especially rehabilitation all you get „Bloody waste of money“ and such.

      It is really simple, you cannot give people longer sentences and send more people to prison without significantly increasing the budget for Prisons.

      You want less people coming out and re-offending, well you are going to spend more money on rehabilitation and guess what, the more spend on rehabilitation the more money it saves in the long term.

      So what do you want because you can’t have both.

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