To Think This is Too Low a Sentance - 12 year olds knife killing

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https://news.sky.com/story/two-boys-believed-to-be-uks-youngest-knife-murderers-detained-for-minimum-of-eight-years-and-six-months-13221221

8.5 years minimum is nothing when these children are still only 13. They could be out at the same age of the man they killed. Why are sentences getting so lenient? I know some will say they are just children, but they are not so naive to not know what they were doing, and after the murder one of them was on social media saying "I don't really care" about the murder. It's just horrific and we need to have higher mandatory sentencing for all knife crimes including just carrying a knife.

Again, why take the chance? Why put law-abiding people at risk?

Because you can’t take a human life- a 12 year old child no less, on the grounds of - let’s not “take the chance”. Can you imagine if that’s how the justice system worked in general? “Are you convinced it is proven beyond reasonable doubt that this person is guilty?” “Nah, not really, but why take the chance? Guilty!”