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Tuesday, 02 December 2008

I'll never be the same: Lauren Huxley's victim impact statement

22/05/2008 2:38:00 PM.  | Emily Smith
A Sydney court has been told of the devastating impact the attack on Lauren Huxley has had hearing she now lives in fear.

Simone Huxley read her sister’s victim’s impact statement to the court at the request of the 21-year-old she’s described as “remarkable”.

Robert Black Farmer is facing sentencing submissions after last week being convicted over the vicious attack on Lauren Huxley.

Lauren was 18 when she bashed, doused in petrol and left in her burning Northmead home.

The court’s heard she lost the last of her teenage years because of the attack.

Ms Huxley says her life will never be the same and she now fears something will happen to her again.

COMMENTS

Thursday, 22 May 2008

So many human rights and civil-libertarians are allowing criminals to be free. Such rights ultimately infringe on the rights of normal people's safety. There needs to be some limits. We should bring back capital punishment. It costs too much to keep them in prison all their lives. There has to be some "cull" of human rubbish. Animals, even native ones, are "culled" for economic expedience, but homo-sapiens seem to have a level of immunity beyound logic and common sense!

Posted by: Vivienne Ortega, Heidelberg Heights

Thursday, 22 May 2008

There was someone else in history who liked the idea of a human cull, thankfully the russians ended those plans. Crimes are committed without regard for the punishment imposed if caught. If it were at all possible to scare the whole of society into not committing such awful acts it would be great but the world is not like that. We need to look at WHY someone would do this not WHAT we are going to do with them afterwards.

Posted by: Tim Robinson, Beaumaris

 

Thursday, 22 May 2008

I don't think Vivienne meant 'culling' on the same level as what occured in Poland and Germany in the 40's but more in the sense that the punishment should fit the crime. This guy will probably plead insanity, do 12 months in the puzzle factory and be released. Whats to stop him doing it again, or someone else doing it?...stronger punishments! I'm sure if the fear of capital punishment was instilled back into society we would see a sharp decline in these horrific crimes. No doubt about it.

Posted by: Jarrod Carter, Perth

Thursday, 22 May 2008

I do not mean genocide, but bring back capital punishment. Punishments should fit the crime. Attacks on lone women and children, our most vulnerable in society, should not be treated so lightly. Bring back the rope!

Posted by: Vivienne Ortega, Heidelberg Heights

 
 

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