Three year and 4 months for vicious manslaughter under McGinty's "Truth in Sentencing" laws.
Jim McGinty's incompetence and failure as Attorney General in the pathetic Carpenter Labor Government was on display for all to see in the sentencing of 22 year old violent Geraldton thug Mathew McDonald for the manslaughter of Geraldton father of five Bill Rowe, who he bludgeoned with a cricket bat on Christmas Day last year.
Bill Rowe who was bashed over the head by a cricket bat on a Geraldton beach, died on Boxing Day.
This thug already was the beneficiary of a suspended 9 month sentence in 2006 for another bashing in Carnarvon. McDonald was not even a juvenile at the time of both offences. Instead of the maximum penalty of 20 years gaol for manslaughter, and this must rank as one of the worst cases in the Desert Rat's view, McGinty's "Truth in Sentencing" laws reduced his sentence to 13 years and 4 months.
McDonald was drunk at the time and admitted he had smoked a huge amount of cannabis that morning - which he would have been allowed to grow at home under McGinty's lax drug "reforms".
With all the other sentencing credits available to him, McDonald received a sentence of 5 years and could be free on parole in 3 years and nine months.
This is the outcome of the incompetent McGinty's "Truth in Sentencing" laws which were a major contributor to Labor's loss of government.
Is McGinty apologist Ken Travers the only person who doubts McGinty's abysmal failure as a Minister?
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