Thief in dock

5:00am Saturday 6th October 2012 in News

A JUDGE adjourned sentencing for a burglar to be assessed for a drug rehabilitation requirement.

Judge Goy Boney QC was addressing John Milligan who had been committed for sentencing at Southampton Crown Court after being convicted of three counts of burglary, two of failing to surrendering to bail and one each of possessing cannabis and handling.

Milligan, 29, of Heather Road, Fawley, was further remanded in custody until October 18.

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solents says...
7:13am Sat 6 Oct 12

So Milligan has a drug habit. Hmmmm.
So he has to steal to feed his habit. Hmmmm. So now we as tax payers are having to fund his rehabilitiation. Hmmmm - I feel as though he's stealing from us again!
I just don't get why we should be feeling so sorry for drug addicts who are forced into crime to feed their habits. It wasn't a disease that he caught which made him start taking the drug was it? I started it by his own free will and now we have to pay. Sod that - put him to work and make him pay is own way out of his own mess - don't make it our mess to sort out. We're too friggin soft.

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Totton Ric says...
8:04am Sat 6 Oct 12

No thought for the victims of his crime & what they had to go through !, there to soft, drug addiction or not its still crime. So if a robber who was not a drug addict had done this would his sentence be different, bound over for a year I bet !

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Inform Al says...
9:54am Sat 6 Oct 12

When we actually declare war on the dealers and sentence accordingly with the occasional suspended sentence, the end of a length of rope type, we may get back to the relatively crime free times of the 1950s. I often wonder why the 'uman rights of low life are more important than those of the majority.

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