http://www.telegraph...oyal-barge.html
I'm concerned about this story: I wondered if there were any other opinions on this. Why is it a problem for him being allowed on the barge? Or have I missed something?
The person concerned maintains he was wrongly convicted, but let's just assume he was in fact guilty as this was the verdict. He served 4 years inside for his offences.
Surely, the basic premise of criminal justice is that you do your time... and that's it. Slate wiped clean; debt to society paid. We're talking about events that happened over twenty years ago. Surely the bloke deserves a second chance, in full?
My suspicion is that everyone gets excited about because of the sexual nature of the offences - if he'd been fiddling the books 20-25 years ago in a minor fraud case, there'd be no news story.
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Sex Offender on Royal Barge
Started by oolongcha, Jun 08 2012 10:10 AM
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Posted 08 June 2012 - 10:32 AM
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But it later emerged that he was jailed for four years after he was found guilty of assaulting women in their homes while posing as a doctor
The prince is said to be angry that security staff failed on five occasions to alert him about the charity worker's criminal convictions – including five counts of indecent assault, 11 counts of assault and one of attempted assault, the Daily Mirror revealed.
The prince is said to be angry that security staff failed on five occasions to alert him about the charity worker's criminal convictions – including five counts of indecent assault, 11 counts of assault and one of attempted assault, the Daily Mirror revealed.
Edited by orphadeus, 08 June 2012 - 10:34 AM.
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Posted 08 June 2012 - 02:58 PM
orphadeus, on 08 June 2012 - 10:32 AM, said:
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But it later emerged that he was jailed for four years after he was found guilty of assaulting women in their homes while posing as a doctor
The prince is said to be angry that security staff failed on five occasions to alert him about the charity worker's criminal convictions – including five counts of indecent assault, 11 counts of assault and one of attempted assault, the Daily Mirror revealed.
The prince is said to be angry that security staff failed on five occasions to alert him about the charity worker's criminal convictions – including five counts of indecent assault, 11 counts of assault and one of attempted assault, the Daily Mirror revealed.
Exactly. Assuming that those convictions are covered by the single jail sentence (it doesn't say that they were in anyway separate convictions) then we're also talking something that happened more than 20 years back. As I say, he's done his time, and (if we're to believe the spiel justifying prison sentences) he's been fully rehabilitated into society - which the absence of any further convictions would seem to support, along with his obvious contribution to civic society since.
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