This deficit
re-inforces the point I made in late September, that legal aid funds are too
precious to go on unmeritorious appeals against sentence by convicted killers
who have appropriately received lengthy sentences and are simply trying it on.
Adrian Bayley
should not have received legal aid to appeal against his sentence. This case was
no Lindy Chamberlain. The facts were not contested, there was no gaps in the
prosecution case, and the sentence handed down to Mr Bayley was entirely within
the judge’s discretion, and entirely appropriate for a man convicted of rape
and murder who is in fact a repeat offender.
Scarce legal
aid dollars need to go where they will do some genuine good.
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