Until young people are tought to have respect and consideration for themselves and others we will continue to see these senseless crimes. Tough sentences in a "boot-camp" atmosphere in a remote and uncomfortables place would help to reform and deter young criminals. Longer and harsher sentences with no remission are necessary for violent crime and gun crime.

Marvin, Leicester, UK

Gosh I hope the thug's human rights aren't infringed in prison. This culture of disrespect etc is really poisonous and has got worse. Everyone has rights except the victims it would appear and i speak from bitter experience.

carole, London, UK

Can you imagine the mother of that poor kid who has just lost his father trying to explain to him that Daddy is not coming home?

25 years is a joke it should be life in the literal sense.

Euan, Edinburgh, Scotland

To Aaron in Sydney - you are right, the lunatics are running the asylum and have been doing so for 10 years. Welcome to Tony's Britain.

clive, surrey,

oh god here we go again. just love the logic,we need more guns not less that's the only way to put fear into those crims.prison that's an easy option sitting around all day never having to work,watching television all day while you work your guts out for these scumbags!.i'm just suprised more people don't want go to jail.sounds like paradise to me.didn't you notice gun nuts, this story made national headlines. in the good old US of A this would have barely been mentioned.and if i'm not mistaken it didn't stop the virginia massacre.but there's always a simple solution for the simple-minded;don't think too hard chaps your brains might go into melt-down

gregg, sydney, australia

This is going to happen over and over again.There are a lot of young black males like Tucker;if we fail to address this problem,we are heading for a society close to hell on earth.

Michael J Rigby, Blackburn, England

What a society we have created here in the UK? Every day now we hear of similar attrocious attacks on law abiding citizens. Have we not reached a stage where we should seriously look at reintroducing capital punishment? Can anybody be convinced that this thug will ever contribute anything to society?

Giuseppe, Di Paola, UK

Once again, the reason for the 2nd Amendment in the U.S. is illustrated vividly. When law-abiding citizens are forbidden the means to defend themselves, they are only allowed to live as slaves to the criminals.

Robert, Los Angeles, CA

How could this happen in a country in which law-abiding citizens had their right to own a hand gun removed after the action of a deranged man in Dunblane?
A country in which only criminals are "allowed" to own a hand gun seems to have lost sight of who is a decent and trustworthy citizen worthy of owning the means of defending themselves.
Where are the Police? Sitting behind CCTV monitors watching crimes being committed but doing nothing to prevent them?
I fear the lunatics are running the asylum.

Aaron, Sydney, Australia

I remember the days when we played "knock down ginger" and we used to run-off ". These days the kids still play knock down ginger: you open the door and they are still stood there waiting to challenge you.

I teach conflict management on a large scale, and the many of my delegates agree that the aggressor (hoodie) as little or no fear of the legal or social consequences. What’s the worst that can happen to them - comfort in prison, no bills no worries.

My thoughts are with the victim’s families and the aggressors families, who in many cases try to do the right thing.

Fernando, Basingstoke, UK

Fernando Rose, Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Had the police been doing their well-paid, well-pensioned job this wouldn't have happened. Once the media moves on from the trial the internal inquiry will be a whitewash.
That one policeman might do this is bad but nine. This shows managerial failings. But then this is the Met whose only function is carry out Ken Livingstone's racial policies.

eddie reader, birmingham, uk