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Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years
(www.theguardian.com)
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Very, very, very harsh. Too harsh.
Would love to see just a single one of the besuited cunts who are polluting our rivers and air get this kind of treatment by their mates in the courts. Never gonna happen tho - this has been a rich man's world for centuries.
i disagree with this being too harsh, but do agree with the second point about wishing to see this type of punishment extended to the industrial villains, who will never see it, deserving this type of punishment.
That's fair. I understand the frustration and anger at these two and what they did - it was senseless and I was definitely a bit heartbroken to read about the felling at first - but four years is so long and they're going to come out worse for it, in my opinion.
Not that they had much going for them to begin with. Maybe when they get out they'll use their brains to do something constructive
Like organ donation
I don't think that's possible, even most criminals would look down on these two.
We're in the middle of a prison crisis. We don't have room for people who chopped down a tree, even if it was a really pretty one.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dlr05rr1lo
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/anglian-water-fined-300-000-after-pollution-killed-5-000-fish
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/27/southern-water-fined-330000-for-stream-pollution-that-killed-2000-fish
https://www.watermagazine.co.uk/2023/01/19/anglian-water-fined-over-half-a-million-pounds-after-raw-sewage-discharge-killed-5000-fish-in-northamptonshire-river/
Not one CEO properly held accountable by the law (I could have listed another 30 different cases easily. Just searching polluted river and killed fish fined uk)
"this kind of treatment" meaning harsh sentences. Fining a company means very little 🤷♂️
My point was that individuals have been responsible for a lot worse, but never held accountable. It didn't have to be rivers and fish. I could have linked to the endless other articles referring to the destruction of something. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmjj5gl6m0po
Oh right, I read your comment as sarcastic but it seems like we're saying the exact same thing.
Councils are constantly cutting down trees. https://inews.co.uk/news/trees-felled-uk-councils-10-years-3229184?ito=link_share_article-top
From what I understand, they really fucked around the court and lied about it which is why the sentence is harsh. If they had just admitted it, they probably would have got a suspended sentence.
Nope. They're a pair of cunts that deserve longer and it's not a zero sum game. We can, and should, have be jailing both