In just over a week no less than three men have been found guilty of murdering women, two of them proven to be multiple murderers and the other suspected of murders in Australia where he had gone after killing here in this country.

The crimes span six years between these three, and we have to ask the question, is it not time that this country had sentences that match the crime?

This is not a debate about Capital Punishment, though it has been proven that it can be a useful detterent it has also been proven that once having killed, even accidently a killer will decide that he has nothing to lose by doing it again as you can only die once.

This is about the ludicrous sentencing system in this country that means a Judge has to specify the amount of years that a killer has to serve, sentencing them to life does not work here as they would be out in a matter of a few years. Is it not time that 'life' sentences in this country matched those of the country the killers try to emulate?

In America 'life without parole' means just that, the only way you leave is in a box, not seven years later having had your sentence automatically halved the minute you enter the prison gates, and then get another half wiped off for 'good' behaviour!

These three hopefully will not walk out the gates in that time, no less than thirty five years for at least one of them, and it may be that he will never walk out, but there is also the chance that he will, how old will he be, seventies? Can you honestly say that even at that age they are not capable of carrying out a murder or of, even worse, training someone else how to do it? And yes there are people out there that will write to these people and beg them for pointers in their crimes!

We live in a world where Human life seems to be a throw away commodity, is it not time to say enough, and to place a proper value even if it is only in terms of sentencing, upon the lives of those unfortunate enough to cross paths with those that think it is their right to take what is not theirs, a life.