British rapists get off lightly - 90 set free in last 4-years with a tap on the knuckle

Rape is a heinous crime all over the world and laws to punish rapists are many and varied but, it now appears that in Britain 90 rapists have been set free dailymail.co.uk over the last four years with, what is known as, a tap on the knuckle. Rape is a crime where the male forces himself upon a female without her consent in order to indulge in physical contact for sexual gratification and pleasure or, at times, for inflicting torture – that reveals the dark side of his mind and shows the mindset of a deranged individual. It seems thousands of such rapists have got away in Britain with just a slap on the wrist even though ministers insist that cautions are ‘inappropriate’ for serious offences. As per recently published records, the British police issued almost 15,000 for offences that would typically result in jail – including 2,279 for sexual assault, 783 for robbery and 11,347 for burglary. But, the ‘sentence’ of cautions for grave crimes was undermining the faith of the public in the ability of the justice system to properly punish offenders. Just for records, in 1971, only 6 per cent of offenders were given a caution, which carries no sanction except a reprimand. The figure reached 20 per cent by last year, though this was down from 31 per cent in 2007. As per the statistics made public by the Ministry of Justice following a Parliamentary question, it seems there were 181,000 cautions issued last year which meant the offender avoided being hauled before the courts – including 29,560 handed out to criminals by the Metropolitan Police. In the opinion of Peter Cuthbertson, of the Centre For Crime Prevention, a caution is never acceptable for crimes like rape or robbery because, in that case, there would be a violent offender free outside and not in prison where he should be.