[kirklancaster]

It is now paramount that the sick, bleeding-heart, gullible bastards who sit on Parole Boards are thoroughly investigated and a lot of them given the boot.

A statement which also applies to a lot of our Judiciary.

The 'minimum six years' sentence imposed by the sentencing judge is an absolute ****ing joke given the absolutely horrific and callously evil crime that Sylvestre was convicted of.

The fact that he was not even the obsessed, deranged ex-partner but an emotionally-uninvolved recruited and willing 'Hit-Man, compounds his crime and SHOULD have been a factor in the Judge imposing a more lengthy minimum sentence on him.

As for the Panel saying that Sylvestre: "had avoided anti-social behaviour while imprisoned, had "repaired his relationship" with his family and had "completed relevant offence-focused work to challenge and change his attitude and thinking".

What a load of B.S. and Tosh which they are seeking to justify their imbecilic decision with.

By stating: "he had avoided anti-social behaviour while imprisoned" do they mean that he had not thrown acid into the faces of anyone else while he has been incarcerated? Is that a meaningful statistic seeing as how he was locked up and therefore rendered incapable of obtaining acid anyway?

As for; "repaired his relationship" with his family" that should not matter two hoots because it should have been poor Katie Piper's awful struggle through the years to repair her shattered life while the cosmetic Surgeons struggled to repair her once beautiful face that was the ONLY focus of the Parole Board's attention when considering parole for this bastard.

Rehabilitation is important - but only ONCE adequate punishment has been implemented and TRUE justice served.

The once mighty 'Deterrent' element of Judicial Sentencing has long been abandoned and the consequences of that are all too clear to see in the increasingly lawless society we are now living in.