Laws must toughen up to prevent crime

I AGREE totally with Pauline of Bristol: ‘Fines should have been transposed’. I was appalled when I read about the lorry driver only being fined £200 for holding two mobile phones while driving. He should have had his lorry impounded and lost his licence as well as given £1,000 fine.

This makes a mockery of our laws. Once again we read of disgraceful and needless crimes, ‘Fundraiser for hospital staff after tyres slashed’. I hope these culprits get caught and made to pay for all the repairs, as well as compensation to the car owners, also given serious sentences and have to do unpaid work for the hospital, not soft jobs but more hard/ unpleasant jobs.

To bring down and discourage crime in Britain – which has got completely out of control, which proves that our justice system is not working and how ridiculous many of our laws are – harder punishments and serious, large fines (which must really hurt) must be enforced.

When will the government and the law courts recognise that our laws must be tightened up as crime is obviously getting worse.

The police try their best but must be fed up with the punishment criminals get, and even the sentences they are supposed to get can be halved.

The amount of violence and abuse police officers and other front line emergency services get is getting worse, with ever increasing violence and aggression from the criminals, which not only affects these officers, physically and mentally, but also their families.

It can be life changing, leaving them traumatised and often unable to work, as well as suffering from long term and permanent injuries.

It is time all police were given their Covid vaccinations, with the work they do and having to deal with criminals at close quarters, apart from which they get spat at and even bitten and attacked in other ways.

Helen Capel

Winscombe, North Somerset