He was 28 years old and imprisoned in 2012 when he was 20 with the crime being committed when he was 18. His radicalisation, a metaphor for mass murder school, was probably started as a youngster.
So we are led to believe his imprisonment for eight years among other similar minded offenders will have sufficiently reprogrammed him to be a benefit to the society that fed and clothed him for a long time before his ‘awakening’.
I’m guessing his attitudes in prison, developed further among comrades, upon release were possibly hardened rather than mitigated. Our structures are badly letting us down in the leniency principles we adopt. Sentences for these crimes are pathetic, they are not ordinary crimes.
They should be classed as what they really are; enemies of the state until proven otherwise. A spy gets 20 or more years. They should be carrying very different penalties than ‘ordinary’ murder with none of the half-term serving rubbish.
As said earlier, the innate bravery of the public shines out and underlines the difference in humanity.
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