41.   Those convicted for the first time for intentional crimes will have their sentences reduced.

42.   What crime has Salamat Masih committed in order to be sentenced to the harshest punishment, hanging?

43.   With time every crime has a tendency to become more entrenched and to spread its tentacles wider.

44.   Hammond said the crime had no precedents in Western Australia and he could not recall an offence of the same apparent menace and gravity.

45.   But whatever the reaction, Tretyakov wrote in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, organised crime had nothing to fear from a government crackdown because it was part of the power structure.

46.   Most crimes have economic underpinnings as crime gangs settle scores or carry out violent robberies.

47.   Such individuals, he added, could only ask for amnesty when their crimes had a political motive.