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Dear Bel, last year a friend (of 14 years) murdered a man in broad daylight. It was sudden, brutal and, as the judge deemed, planned, an act of revenge for a wrong she thought the man had committed against a family member over 25 years earlier. She is now serving life. I went to the sentencing and found the defence barrister's attempts to mitigate and the prosecution's case for increasing the statutory sentence fascinating, but listening to the victim's family impact statements was harrowing.

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