Glad he was put away! I remember everyone’s sentiment when the original thread with the footage was posted. I hope the other ones in the video are going behind bars too.
Clever move by that kid, he’ll be treated like royalty by fellow inmates at the Feltham/Ritz, where he’ll spend the next three years doing arts and crafts, receiving free education and possibly of free access to university courses on day release (unlike most people his age).
Youth institutions are far too cosy, they’re pretty much just con-colleges. This guy will be out on the rob within seconds of his release.
They should put people like that into forced back-breaking labour, like digging up rubbish for scrap metal. Jobs which won’t undermine the current labour market but will see a slim profit over time.
I appreciate that people feel anger and resentment to young people who commit these types of crimes but at that age there is still hope. While it is possible that he and others like him will come out no better than before the bottom line is that an opportunity to develop new skills and open a few doors to a credible and worthwhile future may be what he needs to turn his life around. The tax payer has to pay for his jail time irrespective of how he uses it, but if successful then a life has been changed for the better, and future prison costs will be saved.
