The Lucy Letby Law
Lucy Letby has been found guilty of killing seven children and at her sentencing today she might, understandably, receive a full life order (she did). It has been suggested that she has stated that she won't come to court for the sentencing (she did, but opted to stay in a holding cell in the court) and, as often happens when the country's pecker is up, there have been demands for a new law to force convicted people to attend court. When convicted people attend court they get to listen to the judge's decision and often the judge's view of them as a person. They also, in some cases, get to hear impact statements from victims' families. I wonder why that is considered important and who it is important for. If it was important in that it aided some kind of change in the convicted person then that would make sense, i.e., it made them more reflective, repentant, less likely to offend again, to be less disruptive in prison. Awesome. I am sure that someone could do a study...