Quote Originally Posted by IainBusby View Post
This is how things went totally wrong with the sentencing in the James Bulger case. The presiding judge set an 8 years minimum tarrif, which was then increased by the Lord Chief Justice of the day to 10 years. Then the home secretary of the day Michael Howard (for purely populist reasons in my opinion) increased it to 15 years which left the door open for a challenge in the European court of human rights.
i would have thought that most people would want them to serve 15yrs minimum in prison and not 8yrs in some care home, for what they did to that little boy, imagine if it was your son ? 8yrs in a home , released back on the streets , and not serve one day in prison

yes the family of Bulger were let down by the justice system and the Court of human rights