Express & Star comment: Despair as courts fail to get tough
Another day, another case of British justice to make you despair.
Natalie Severn admitted smuggling heroin into Oakwood Prison near Wolverhampton in June last year.
The 31-year-old was already mother to a young child at the time and became pregnant again shortly before appearing at Stafford Crown Court in April this year.
The circumstances of the pregnancy are not known, but it is absolutely right – and entirely predictable – that she would face a prison sentence for her crime.
Our prisons are depressingly infected with drugs and drug abuse.
Anyone smuggling any drug – let alone a killer such as heroin – should face the full force of the law.
