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Should Lucy Letby have been allowed to miss her sentencing? (www.spectator.co.uk)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm listening to LBC callers say that forcing the convict to attend their sentencing hearing 'smacks of medievalism'. All kinds of hell-fire would be unleashed if this law was overturned.

Yet in the US and other countries, convicts are forced to attend their sentencing hearings and the sky didn't fall. What is so fucking special about the UK?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

citizen rights keep being constantly eroded everywhere, so it may be worth fighting even for little things like this to keep the idea in mind.

Might be an unpopular opinion around here but I don't think that after this sort of crime you're still a citizen. You've moved yourself outside of the accepted definition of citizen to something else. I'm not saying you no longer have any rights, of course you do. But I don't think you should be afforded citizens rights as we know them. Call it criminal rights or whatever you want but you're no longer a citizen if you choose so brazenly to murder defenceless babies in the way she did. And given that, I don't think criminals should be allowed to skip sentencing.