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Jail time increased for 2 of the UK’s most dangerous rapists
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December 11, 2020 8:50 PM
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Indonesian national Reynhard Sinaga was convicted of 159 offences. (AP pic)
LONDON: Two of Britain’s most dangerous sex offenders will have to spend at least 40 years in prison, judges ruled on Friday, after a government appeal that their sentences were too soft.
Britain’s attorney-general had sought to ensure that Reynhard Sinaga and Joseph McCann spent their rest of the lives behind bars because of the extent and nature of their crimes.
But five appeal court judges, including the head of the judiciary of England and Wales, Lord Chief Justice Judge Ian Burnett, refused to impose whole-life terms.
“The offending in the cases of McCann and Sinaga, very serious though it is, does not, in our judgment, call for either to receive a whole life tariff,” Burnett said in the ruling.
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The judges said both men’s crimes were among the most serious offences of rape to have been tried in the courts of England and Wales.
Neither had shown any remorse, they added, as they increased the minimum time they must spend in prison from 30 to 40 years.
Sinaga, an Indonesian national, was convicted of 159 offences, including 136 rapes and eight attempted rapes, at four separate trials which began in June 2018 and ended last December.
The 36-year-old lured unsuspecting men to his flat in Manchester, northwest England, drugged then assaulted them, and captured the attacks on camera.
Police believe he may have attacked as many as 195 men.
The sentencing judge called him “an evil serial sexual predator” and a “monster”.
Jail time increased for 2 of the UK’s most dangerous rapists
AFP
-
December 11, 2020 8:50 PM
1.9kShares
LONDON: Two of Britain’s most dangerous sex offenders will have to spend at least 40 years in prison, judges ruled on Friday, after a government appeal that their sentences were too soft.
Britain’s attorney-general had sought to ensure that Reynhard Sinaga and Joseph McCann spent their rest of the lives behind bars because of the extent and nature of their crimes.
But five appeal court judges, including the head of the judiciary of England and Wales, Lord Chief Justice Judge Ian Burnett, refused to impose whole-life terms.
“The offending in the cases of McCann and Sinaga, very serious though it is, does not, in our judgment, call for either to receive a whole life tariff,” Burnett said in the ruling.
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The judges said both men’s crimes were among the most serious offences of rape to have been tried in the courts of England and Wales.
Neither had shown any remorse, they added, as they increased the minimum time they must spend in prison from 30 to 40 years.
Sinaga, an Indonesian national, was convicted of 159 offences, including 136 rapes and eight attempted rapes, at four separate trials which began in June 2018 and ended last December.
The 36-year-old lured unsuspecting men to his flat in Manchester, northwest England, drugged then assaulted them, and captured the attacks on camera.
Police believe he may have attacked as many as 195 men.
The sentencing judge called him “an evil serial sexual predator” and a “monster”.
