Ferocious Aardvark wrote:
As someone who is NOT advocating differential murder sentences, it is still fair to point out that there is an obvious difference between some deaths, which is that most people are not killed as a consequence of deliberately putting themselves in harm's way to protect you and me. Most of us would, I think, choose not to enter a money shop where a robbery is taking place, as did PC Sharon Beshenivsky; who would guarantee that they would not flee for safety, instead of rescuing injured comrades ignoring personal risk of death, like Private Beharry? Who would have the bottle to wade in to protect a pupil from a notorious gang with weapons, which they were using, as did headmaster Philip Lawrence? Who can guarantee that they would not jump the hell off a burning aeroplane, rather than stay on it to get as many passengers off as you could, as did Sharon Ford and Jacqui Urbanski when they lost their own lives in the Manchester Airport incident in 1985?
Someone who is prepared to risk their own life to help others has always been considered special, and in my book, is.
I did read a few years back that nobody who had murdered a police officer had ever been released from jail. That might have changed since then, it was a few years ago. But I think it is an accepted principle that police killers receive much longer sentences. Harry Roberts must be well past 40 years inside by now.
