Move along folks, there’s nothing to see here and nothing to learn.
Kevin Reynolds, the 44-year-old man who punched Sir Alex Ferguson (love him, hate him or full of apathy towards him – his personality is not the story here) was sent to prison today for 15 months.
Reynolds has a staggering 146 prior convictions incurred over the last 25 years.
And as if that’s not enough – most of those 146 prior convictions were for violence.
So…
Kevin Reynolds isn’t learning anything from prison, is he?
No.
Why are we wasting tax-payers money sending him there then?
Why is the hard-pressed tax-payer being robbed of the estimate £1,000/week it takes to keep a prisoner inside when – in the case of Kevin Reynolds – it clearly doesn’t work?
B.
Because they don’t know what else to do with him? Clearly, it’s at least (and sadly, at most too, apparently) 15 months where the tax-payers are unlikely to be stabbed by Reynolds.
Is there any other solution, except than a shot in the heart, which seems a bit too much if you don’t believe in capital punishment (and maybe even if you do) – or are, like most American States currently, too afraid that someone will outlaw your favorite method of execution to carry on with it?
In the meanwhile, I’m trying to compute how someone can be convicted 146 times over a period of time of 25 years, and coming to the conclusion that you’d have to spend a hell lot of time in a tribunal.