Gary Dobson and David Norris have just been sentenced for the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
In the UK for an offence of racially aggravated murder you would expect a sentence of a minimum of 30 years in prison. Due to previous convictions for violence and a complete lack of remorse shown in Dobson and Norris' case you would expect that sentence to be much higher.
The Judge clearly disagreed and sentenced Dobson to a minimum of 15 years 2 months and Norris to 14 years and 2 months. That's 3 and 4 years respectively less then the time Dobson and Norris have already wrongly walked free. So it seems to me that while a jury finally convicted them the Judge still saw no need to actually punish them.
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