By Sandrea:- MY GRIPE
It seems a cruel twist of faith that Damilola Taylor will never be able to achieve is dreams, he will never have children, fall in love, or do any of the things that most young people take for granted. He was robbed of all those things because his young life was taken away by thugs. His parent lost a son, they will never be able to see their son graduate, get acne, go through all the aspect of what made a teenager grow, he’s dead.
It make me furious to read that one of his killer will be release from prison after just four years of a eight year prison sentence. So it begs the question, ‘what is the price for a human life?’. It seems to me that the perpetrators of crimes are the ones who are given all the breaks yet the victims and their families get nothing.
Unbelievable, I cannot begin to even imagine what this must be doing to Damilola’s family. Having bury their son ten years ago, having to go through grieve and pain that no family should have to bear, to see the murderer of your son released from prison so early must be as hard to take and bring back all the events of that traumatic time when Damilola’s life was taken.
What has happen to the justice systems? I cannot believe it and I am sure that many people who remember the death of Damilola will not accept that this individual should be released from prison. He has not paid enough for the crime that he has committed. He his 23, he has many years ahead of him, he will be able to give his parent grandchildren, he may even find himself a wife, yet those things are taken away from the Taylor family.
I have to agree wholeheartedly with Mr Taylor when he said that, “It is just going to add to all the pain that I have suffered because of this heinous crime and the amount of time that he has spent in prison is not enough. When he was sentenced there was no recognition of guilt and my worst fear is that he is going to come out as the same Rickie Preddie, with the same arrogant behaviour that he showed in court, slip back into crime and end up in prison again.”
My concern is not the fact that he will end up in prison, my concern is whether he will use a knife again to take away the life of another person’s son.
Mr Taylor has said, that this boy did not show any remorse, showed any signs that he fell bad about what he had done, in fact he was, as Mr Taylor showed “arrogant behaviour”.
I do not believe he has spend long enough in prison to be classified as a ‘reform character’. The fact that he will be released so early could make him believe that he can go out and do the same thing again because the punishment is so minute.
Every parent that has young sons Damilola age must be very concern that this idiot is going to be let loose again into their community.
The justice system needs to take a hard look at themselves, and realise that some of their decisions are indeed harmful to others. Irrespective that prison may be over crowded that his no reason to let loose convicted killer onto our streets and into our communities.
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