Justice For All?

Now many people have 'horrendous upbringings' and don't do this ... 'murdering a man in Pakuranga and wounding two women near Thames in 2003 with a samurai sword.'
' ... his jail term was excessive and the judge should have taken his horrendous upbringing into account when passing sentence.'
And beit that it was 'P' fuelled, or that he was 'mentally altered,' again is quite irrelevant ... many people use 'P' without exhibiting the excess this chappy did ... and many with 'truly psychotic conditions' don't do it either.
We have a justice system that pivots on the concept of individual responsibility, and yet our judiciary seem to constantly want to 'share the guilt.'
If this is the track that our 'wise men are treading' then perhaps rather than mitigating an 'appropriate sentence' these 'wise men' should look at incarcerating those they deem contributed to this mayhem - the 'P' supplier and 'parents,' and others that they in their infinite wisdom deem to have contributed - rather than reducing the sentence for a crime that others with similar or worse backgrounds would never commit ... and again leave the real victims of such crimes feeling hollow and robbed of justice.