5 years 9 months

[fiestas*girl]

and that is supposed to be a detterent for others?

[purple_haize]

No amount of time will be enough for him, his victims have to live the rest of their lives, with what he did to them. They should just keep him in jail till he dies.

Why should he be allowed out to spend some of his sentence at home, he shouldnt, I hope he rots in jail.

I feel very sorry for his victims and for his frail wife.

[freddie*rooster]

And why the heck did they consider his wife's age and illness when sentencing him? Why should he be shown any leniency due to his wife's predicament. There's plenty of money in the coffer's for her to have a dozen carer's.

[channys_mum]

I have been wondering about her. Do you think she has been oblivious to his habits all these years and this was a complete shock. Or rather the shock is for the getting caught.

[purple_haize]

He had a mistress living on the property, for ages, I am sure his wife would have known. I am not even sure she was living at the house during the trial, as he said at one stage when asked during the trial did they arrive together and he said no. One would think that if she lived with him, they would arrive together.

Also, he said, his daughter and his wife, showed unity for the press.........to make it look good.

[*crikey*mate*]

Is it possible that the sentence appears to be so light because of when the crimes were committed?

What I mean is, that if a murderer murders at a time when the maximum penalty is 15 years, but is caught when ther maximum penalty is death penalty, the current penalty cannot be applied to his crimes, only those that were in place at the time he committed them.

it works backwards too.

say the death penalty was in force when someone committed murder, but it was later abolished. The murderer can stuill be awarded the death penalty as that was the penalty in force at the time of the crimes.

So maybe, the judge didn't have more sever penalties to work with?

[freddie*rooster]

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@channys_mum wrote:

I have been wondering about her. Do you think she has been oblivious to his habits all these years and this was a complete shock. Or rather the shock is for the getting caught.

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I would hope she was unaware of his dirty little sneaky world. From the reaction of Robert Hughes wife when he was sentenced I wondered at the time if she was in denial about his sorded secret.

[azureline**]

 prefer to give his wife the benefit of the doubt, I assume she knew nothing about it. Many men have done the same and not let it be known to their families.

Some of the new claims are making a mockery of the real victims.

[polksaladallie]

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@channys_mum wrote:

I have been wondering about her. Do you think she has been oblivious to his habits all these years and this was a complete shock. Or rather the shock is for the getting caught.

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If I remember rightly, he had some sort of a breakdown 30 or so years ago, and it had something to do with his marriage.  Perhaps his other life became evident then, and the marriage has been pretend ever since.  I don't think his wife was unaware, and she was dragged back and forth to court in order to garner sympathy.  And it worked.

[the_bob_delusion]

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freddie*rooster wrote:

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**what_would_bob_do** wrote:

He won't last a month. 

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Why?

Will someone wack him with his wobble board?

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[polksaladallie]

Rolf's Willy-Willy won't be doing much walkabout now.