Special deals for special men ? Perhaps i have missed something in all this.
Perhaps the important thing you have missed is how few armchair lawyers on this forum operate at the extremes of human ability when fighting the Queen's enemies a la SF? The enemy doesn't operate to Queensberry ROE...the men who have to fight them deserve a bit of understanding at times.
Even as a 'special' man he was subject to the law of the land and he was technically guilty on paper...it's the original sentencing that was wildly inappropriate. Therefore he appealed and won. End of.
How topical this is - on the Today program they were discussing the new mandatory life sentences for repeat violent offenders.
Good job he didn't have his armoury at home where one if his children could have got their hands on it!!!
It would take a particularly capable child to take the loose rounds, fit them into a magazine, fit the magazine to the pistol and make ready.
