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Man, 23, who raped mother-of-two in Aberdeen and burned her alive given lighter sentence due to young age

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A man who raped a mother-of-two and then burned her alive was handed a lighter minimum prison sentence due to his younger age and early guilty plea.

Jill Barclay, 47, was attacked while walking home after a night out in Aberdeen last September.

Rhys Bennett, 23, who had followed his victim from a pub in the Dyce area, repeatedly stamped on her head and body, smacked her head against a downpipe, compressed her neck and dragged her along the ground.

He then raped her, before later returning to pour petrol on her and setting her alight.

During sentencing, Lord Arthurson branded the violence "feral".

He told Bennett: "The available evidence tells the horrible truth that your victim was still living at the time that the fire was set. To be crystal clear - you burned her alive."

At the High Court in Edinburgh on Wednesday, Bennett pleaded guilty to rape, murder and attempting to defeat the ends of justice.

The labourer, from Ballingry in Fife, was sentenced to life in prison with at least 24 years behind bars and was placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.

Lord Arthurson, who branded Bennett's behaviour "unimaginably wicked and indeed medieval in their barbarity", said the accused would have been facing at least 29 years in jail had it not been for the sentencing guidelines for under-25s and his early guilty plea.

Offenders normally receive a lesser sentence for early guilty pleas.

Jailing Bennett for life, Lord Arthurson said: "I have determined on the particular facts of this case that the notional headline punishment part of that sentence should sit at a period of 29 years.

"Taking into account, as I require to, the circumstances of your early plea and the engaged guidelines for the sentencing of offenders under 25, and approaching these discounting elements on an in cumulo basis, I fix the actual punishment part of your life sentence at a period of 24 years.

"On charge two, the charge of attempting to defeat the ends of justice, I impose a concurrent determinate sentence of four years imprisonment, discounted from a period of six years."
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Leonhardt
I doubt someone with a temperament to commit a crime like this is going to get through a lengthy sentence without incident. Either to himself or someone else.

Condolences to the family and friends of the victim.
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The XL 2 said:
The real criminals are government who enables and doesn't adequately punish this sort of savagery
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Right.. But let's not forget about the guy that raped and murdered someone.

They got the best and longest sentence they was able to procure in a country which abides law and tries to maintain civilized. Does it always get things right? No but that is the price we pay for all the advantages of said country.

If you want criminals executed or fucking stoned to death in the dirt, lynched/burned at the stake, I am sure there are other such places on Earth that'll have you.

Providing you have a passport.
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Rick Sanchez
Would be a shame if something happened to this guy when he got out.
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Universal_Phenom
Some people just need killing. cases like this are why I support the death penalty.
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I am Groot
Dude ain't living out his sentence anyway.
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Art Vandaley
So he's going to be in jail from the ages of 23 to 47 instead of 23 to 53 because he plead guilty instead of going to trial.... And that's the minimum non parole period, he'll be in for longer than that for sure, and if he never gets parole he'll be in for his entire life.

This is beyond not a story.
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Once the people inside knows what he did, pretty sure he won't be alive there for long. Unless they themselves are going to coddle him.
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Pencil Neck Freak
I'm not normally an eye for an eye kind of guy.... But wow. Time to bring back being burnt at the stake for monsters like this.
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Not much of a difference between 24 and 29 years. Either way, both are a bit light in comparison to what he did.
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BrrrGoesWooo!
Universal_Phenom said:
Some people just need killing. cases like this are why I support the death penalty.
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Every time these kind of stories pop up, as an atheist, I can just never understand people who want death sentences.

Spending 24 (or in this guys case hopefully life) in a box seems like a way worse punishment than letting the dude skate into the peace and calm of death, regardless of how brutal the death sentence was, like @Blonde was talking about.

For people that believe in hell I guess it makes sense but, if you don't, no freedom and being bunked indefinitely with the worst of the scumfucks is about as close to hell as we can approximate within the confines of "cruel and unusual" punishment in this world.
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BrrrGoesWooo! said:
Every time these kind of stories pop up, as an atheist, I can just never understand people who want death sentences.

Spending 24 (or in this guys case hopefully life) in a box seems like a way worse punishment than letting the dude skate into the peace and calm of death, regardless of how brutal the death sentence was, like @Blonde was talking about.

For people that believe in hell I guess it makes sense but, if you don't, no freedom and being bunked indefinitely with the worst of the scumfucks is about as close to hell as we can approximate within the confines of "cruel and unusual" punishment in this world.
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There's also the idea of just eliminating such people from the world. The idea that we have to share resources with such a POS. That they breath the same air as us. That tax payers provide the food given to such a monster. While the concept of the rest of their life being hell is appealing. Sometimes even torture doesn't seem worth it. And just free the world of such filth. Atleast as carbon he will provide use to micronisms, instead of being just a human cancer.
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Pencil Neck Freak said:
BrrrGoesWooo! said:
Every time these kind of stories pop up, as an atheist, I can just never understand people who want death sentences.

Spending 24 (or in this guys case hopefully life) in a box seems like a way worse punishment than letting the dude skate into the peace and calm of death, regardless of how brutal the death sentence was, like @Blonde was talking about.

For people that believe in hell I guess it makes sense but, if you don't, no freedom and being bunked indefinitely with the worst of the scumfucks is about as close to hell as we can approximate within the confines of "cruel and unusual" punishment in this world.
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There's also the idea of just eliminating such people from the world. The idea that we have to share resources with such a POS. That they breath the same air as us. That tax payers provide the food given to such a monster. While the concept of the rest of their life being hell is appealing. Sometimes even toture doesn't seem worth it. And just free the world of such filth. Atleast as carbon he will provide use to micronisms instead of being just a cancer of a human being.
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I still think time served is worth more as punishment than time off being dead.

If it only cost a bullet, I could see the tax payer/money argument in cases like this where the guy is 100% guilty -- literally admitting to everything in a plea.

But it costs millions to kill someone legally even if they're a confirmed shitbag, way more than if you let them rot in a cell.

These kind of convicts don't breathe the same free air as us, or even the same as other criminals -- @BlueEyedDevil knows what's up.

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If you know how to play with a prisoner's housing he will pray for his own death. I've heard story after story about prisoners so desperate to end their own lives that they turn into MacGyver and will try to use anything they can find or fix to do themselves in with. Anything.
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It costs millions to do it legally, but if you cell this guy up with a lifer who loved his mom, he'll do it for free, and relish the opportunity.

Just sayin..

:don:

It's not nice to actually spell this kind of shit out, but it's kind of an actual reality and in this guys case it's actually deserved.
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Eva MaRIHyse
100% people like that should just be taken out back of the court house, forced to dig a shallow grave and then shot in the head. Or the victims family should be locked in a room with him and allowed to do anything they want. People like that dont deserve to even exist.

Sending a person like that to jail even for the rest of his life is no form of justice, that piece of shit gets to keep living and will even be free one day to continue on with his life.

I cant even fathom the sheer terror and pain that poor woman endured in the last moments of her life. That's beyond evil to do that to another person.

Sadly this sentence is perhaps a statement on our current society going so soft on criminals thesedays. The 'justice' system will find any excuse to paint the criminal as a victim.
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Universal_Phenom
BrrrGoesWooo! said:
Every time these kind of stories pop up, as an atheist, I can just never understand people who want death sentences.

Spending 24 (or in this guys case hopefully life) in a box seems like a way worse punishment than letting the dude skate into the peace and calm of death, regardless of how brutal the death sentence was, like @Blonde was talking about.

For people that believe in hell I guess it makes sense but, if you don't, no freedom and being bunked indefinitely with the worst of the scumfucks is about as close to hell as we can approximate within the confines of "cruel and unusual" punishment in this world.
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#1 You are assuming being bunked with scumfucks is a punishment for other scumfucks. They are amoung their own element, it isn't like if you or I were caged with them.

#2 If they are alive there is a possibilty they can one day be free to do it again. The only way to 100% guarentee they never hurt another innocent person is to end them.
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BrrrGoesWooo! said:
Every time these kind of stories pop up, as an atheist, I can just never understand people who want death sentences.

Spending 24 (or in this guys case hopefully life) in a box seems like a way worse punishment than letting the dude skate into the peace and calm of death, regardless of how brutal the death sentence was, like @Blonde was talking about.

For people that believe in hell I guess it makes sense but, if you don't, no freedom and being bunked indefinitely with the worst of the scumfucks is about as close to hell as we can approximate within the confines of "cruel and unusual" punishment in this world.
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As an atheist, I don't get what being an atheist has to do with this.

I look it at two ways. Its a waste of taxpayers money to keep people like this in prison. A lot of money is spent per prisoner, and scum like this don't deserve that.

Then there's the fact that this guy is going to be free one day. And sure by that point he'll be older and the potential prime of his life has passed by, but he'll be free to move on with his life, scum like this dont deserve that.

Just make it simple. Bullets are cheap, and revolting, non human scum like this dont deserve to keep breathing oxygen.
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Eva MaRIHyse said:
As an atheist, I don't get what being an atheist has to do with this.

I look it at two ways. Its a waste of taxpayers money to keep people like this in prison. A lot of money is spent per prisoner, and scum like this don't deserve that.

Then there's the fact that this guy is going to be free one day. And sure by that point he'll be older and the potential prime of his life has passed by, but he'll be free to move on with his life, scum like this dont deserve that.

Just make it simple. Bullets are cheap, and revolting, non human scum like this dont deserve to keep breathing oxygen.
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More often than not it costs more to have someone killed legally than it does to imprison them.

And I refer you to brother @BlueEyedDevil 's epistle on the matter of "housing," for further study.
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Universal_Phenom said:
#1 You are assuming being bunked with scumfucks is a punishment for other scumfucks. They are amoung their own element, it isn't like if you or I were caged with them.

#2 If they are alive there is a possibilty they can one day be free to do it again. The only way to 100% guarentee they never hurt another innocent person is to end them.
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I don't know if you saw the "before" picture on this guy, but the dude looks Rubbermaid.

This isn't a career criminal and those folks inside aren't his "own element."

Dude's either going to get raped for 24 years, get shanked outright or catch more years trying to defend against the aforementioned.

He isn't getting out.
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The UK is an embarrassment, and Scotland is the most embarrassing of all.
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Universal_Phenom said:
#1 You are assuming being bunked with scumfucks is a punishment for other scumfucks. They are amoung their own element, it isn't like if you or I were caged with them.

#2 If they are alive there is a possibilty they can one day be free to do it again. The only way to 100% guarentee they never hurt another innocent person is to end them.
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To be fair. A lot of career criminals don't take kindly to people like this. He's not going to have an easy time in prison. As soon as you get to prison. People will look into what you did. Sex offenders always get it worst in prison. And this scum did that and more. I do hope that the folks there will do what the government should of done. And the guards turn a blind eye.
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BrrrGoesWooo! said:
I still think time served is worth more as punishment than time off being dead.

If it only cost a bullet, I could see the tax payer/money argument in cases like this where the guy is 100% guilty -- literally admitting to everything in a plea.

But it costs millions to kill someone legally even if they're a confirmed shitbag, way more than if you let them rot in a cell.

These kind of convicts don't breathe the same free air as us, or even the same as other criminals -- @BlueEyedDevil knows what's up.



It costs millions to do it legally, but if you cell this guy up with a lifer who loved his mom, he'll do it for free, and relish the opportunity.

Just sayin..

:don:

It's not nice to actually spell this kind of shit out, but it's kind of an actual reality and in this guys case it's actually deserved.
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Him breathing the same air as us was more of a hyperbolic idea than a literal one. That a government will be required to give him resources. The same that many people struggle to get. And yes. It's a shame that the legal way of excusution costs so much. But I'd be more in favour to pay more to end his life, than to keep him (even if it would be completely misarable life) alive. Purely because I don't want such filth to exist in any capacity.
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