red baron wrote on Jul 5
th, 2014 at 8:17am:
Thus the book closes on an extraordinary episode in many, many lives. Not just the victims but all of those of us who loved him and were shaken to our foundations to find this icon had feet of clay.
Rolf is now left to ruminate in prison as to the evil he has secretly spread during his life. All the joy he created counts for nothing against the evil he perpetrated over and over again against innocent female victims.
Piece by piece reminders of him are now being removed, plaques, names, paintings, music all disappearing and soon Rolf with fade from our memories. But not so the memories of the victims who he has left a constant reminder all of their lives of the foul deeds he committed on them.
His sentence is relatively light but you can bet he doesn't think that. He will have at least 3 years before parole to consider his life.
It won't be time done easily, it will be gut wrenchingly hard and so it should be.
See, this is where the concept of justice goes a bit wobbly, IMO.
Just a couple of years back, we had a woman raped and murdered in Melbourne. The man who did it, Adrian Bayley, had previously committed 2 violent rapes. His sentence was 5 years and he was out in 22 months.
After that, he went on a rampage of attacks and rapes and still only got 8 years.
I know that is Melbourne and RH is in England, bit it makes you wonder (or it does me, anyway).. why did Adrian Bayley get out in only 22 months and is RH that much worse that he has a min of 3 years?
I think, myself, we are just way too lenient to some of our aussie criminals.