Killer’s bid to cut jail time nearly backfires
Tuesday 13th September 2011, 2:29PM BST.
KILLER Joanne Baker has lost an appeal against a 15-month prison sentence for kneeing and kicking a woman in the face.
Judge Russell Finch said the Royal Court had actually considered increasing Baker’s prison term to 18 months.
‘In the future, unmeritorious appeals may attract a longer sentence.’
Her co-appellant, Danika Machon, also lost her appeal against a nine-month sentence for two assaults.
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So! the price of a human life is 15 months incarceration is it??? Where’s the JUSTICE in that???
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This has made me feel slightly sick. Those ‘women’ have got away with something so disgusting!
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how have they got away with it, there are doing there time????
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Here we go again…
Outraged of Guernsey line up to pontificate whilst having no grasp of the facts
No change there then
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Wasp, you might be mistaken by the misleading headline. Miss Baker is not serving a prison sentence for Murder, that was a previous conviction for which she served some (too little if you ask me!) in prison for. This sentence is re a joint assault.
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Wasp – the article isn’t that clear online but to clarify, this offence did not result in a death.
That was a previous offence for which if I recall she served considerably longer than 15 months.
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My mistake, thank you all for the clarification. However this person is obviously an extremely aggressive individual.
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