A name / publication ban offends ones sense of justice

Yesterday, Thursday 4 January 2018 a Danish man of 25 years old was found guilty by The City Court of Copenhagen of aggravated manslaughter for crashing his jet ski into a boat on 6 May, 2016, killing 2 American Exchange students, Leah Bell, 18, and Linsey Malia, who both attended the Copenhagen based Study abroad in Scandinavia foundation.

I find the wording and the apparent use of the Danish Administration of Justice Act § 31 and its interpretation relating to the aforementioned case, wrong.

The guilty criminal committed a reckless / hazardous criminal act with total disregard of the consequences, which caused the death of two young girls!

No different than being a drunk driver!

A name- or publication ban should in such a case not be allowed.

Whether this criminal man, who only feels sorry for himself, or his family should be protected by a law because it might offend their honor, self-esteem, they can afford to hire a smart defense attorney, they are afraid of public feelings might “harm them” or are shown lack of respect is in no way acceptable.

I hope the prosecution lodges an appeal to the High Court (Landsretten), that the judge Pia Petersen will be forced to undergo a psychiatric assessment and that the end result will be a considerable higher punishment than 2 years with ref. to the Danish Criminal Law § 252 – where the max. punishment, currently, is 8 years.

I also hope that a newspaper – foreign or domestic – will publish the name of this criminal man!

You can interpret what I have written here as you please - but I find it not acceptable that a criminal reckless person, who has reached a competent age, should be protected in any way with respect to any kind of name ban!

The law is in general way too soft on criminal behavior in Denmark in my opinion.

That also applies to white-color criminal behavior!