point of 30. there is a very significant minimum term. that is what he will spend in jail, significant minimum term. that is what he will spend injail, meaning he will be an old man, if he is ever to be released. immediately after the judge had left, immediately after thejudge had left, police officers and the family were crying and hugging cosmo then those 42 years is the meaning of some kind ofjustice. those 42 years is the meaning of some kind ofjustice. some kind of “ustice. thank you for that, mark. some kind ofjustice. thank you for that, mark. just some kind ofjustice. thank you for that, mark. just marking some kind ofjustice. thank you for that, mark. just marking your- some kind ofjustice. thank you for that, mark. just marking your card | that, mark. just marking your card if you re watching at home, there is a live pictures from manchester crown court, where we have just heard that sentencing. 0ur correspondent is there, we will be back with rowan in a mo
interesting the contrast between the uk and the us, of course. we have both covered big court cases in the us, where there are cameras in, and it is much more recent, and the remarks from thejudge it is much more recent, and the remarks from the judge are quite different in the uk, much more informal and asking questions and going off script, and that doesn t happen so much in the uk, itjust struck me as quite different. daniel, your thoughts and reflections having listened into that sentencing. reflections having listened into that sentencina. ~ , . that sentencing. when the sentencing remarks made that sentencing. when the sentencing remarks made it that sentencing. when the sentencing remarks made it is that sentencing. when the sentencing remarks made it is quite that sentencing. when the sentencing remarks made it is quite a that sentencing. when the sentencing remarks made it is quite a formal- remarks made it is quite a formal process, lots of user friendly language i
they actually have, in a way, a profound understanding of the case themselves and therefore the impact statements are, in a way, a distillation of all that they have been hearing over the period of the trial, and therefore there is no real change. nevertheless, ithink, forthe real change. nevertheless, ithink, for the public outside, those reading on our life a jewel of the comments, watching thejudge making her remarks this afternoon, reading all of the comments, it is important that we see that link between the technical exercise of trying an individual for a between the technical exercise of trying an individualfor a crime, a statistic, if you like, in the criminaljournal, and the human story and i think that is what we have been able to get you today, in the course of what we have been hearing from their victim impact statements, you can come across the details of this case, if you have
with the kind of people we are talking about in this case, these are people who retain a grudge. if somebody says something which leads to undermining their illicit drugs operations, they will not give a second thought to meting out their own form ofjustice. that is how they can keep going, a key part of they can keep going, a key part of the operation as we had during this court case and during some of the statements earlier in this programme, about the importance of violence to these gangs. if you like, it is the way that it makes business sense for them to stop unless you are prepared to mete out serious violence it is difficult to operate in this territory. the bravery of this woman, whose name we could not say even if we knew it, it really does to some extent, restore your faith in really does to some extent, restore
donein it comes to passing sentence that is done in airformal and dispassionate way. we talk about aggravating and mitigating circumstances. getting are getting are things that might make the sentence shorter because i might have been a reason why the crime was committed or why the season make sentence should be shorter, aggravating circumstances are ones which make things worse. they just decided are ones which make things worse. theyjust decided there were basically no mitigating circumstances in this case. he was a hit man who had gone out to kill somebody and there was nothing mitigating about that. she did find some aggravating circumstances. essentially this was a very preplanned offence, he had gone out with not one but two guns, so the preplanned nature of that she felt was even more preplanned than a normal firearms was even more preplanned than a normalfirearms murder, it wasn t just that somebody was carrying a gun but they had set out with a plan to use it and then criti