BARBADOS’ JUSTICE SYSTEM must send a message to criminals that they will not get a free ride after committing heinous crimes.
Anglican priest Canon Wayne Isaacs made the call from the pulpit on Sunday, insisting the punishment meted out to perpetrators of the violence which Barbados had been witnessing in recent weeks must be such that criminals understood their behaviour would not be tolerated.
“Justice demands that those who are involved in these heinous crimes; the perpetrators of violence; those who bring guns into our country illegally; those who rent guns; those who employ persons to hit persons, [be made to understand] that they cannot flourish in our land,” Isaacs declared. “Justice demands that they be given the maximum sentence.”
In his sermon at St Paul’s Anglican Church, the cleric described much of the current violence as “the work of criminal-minded persons who have no respect for people’s lives or property”. (GC)
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