The starting point for sentencing is to double under government strategy to tackle prejudice against trans and disabled people.
(The thing is… is doubling the minimum sentence really going to put people off murder in the first place? Or address prejudice at all? Something tells me no.)
This is some BULLSHIT. Why the fuck isn’t the minimum sentence FOR ALL HATE CRIMES being doubled???
And why do I get the feeling that it’s mostly going to be white folks who end up being addressed by this damn new provision…..
The minimum sentence for murders of trans and disabled are being doubled to match the minimum sentences for existing hates crimes. Or, to quote the article directly:
The move will bring sentencing in these cases in line with murders in which race, religion or sexual orientation is an aggravating factor.
So… that’s why. It’s not really “some bullshit” at all.
