THE killers of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella, one of the most cowardly, vile murders of recent times, have been given “life” sentences of a minimum 19 years (Echo, June 13).
This is another example of British justice becoming a joke. To keep calling such sentences “life” is absurd.
Geoff Carr, Aycliffe Village, Co Durham.
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