This thread - like the one before it, and the ones that sadly will follow it, will follow a similar track.
There will be a lot of seriously outraged people wanting dark revenge in prison for that they see as justice not served.
But at the risk of sounding like a cracked record - the law does not operate on what the public thinks about individual cases.
It is not moved, as we are, by the short length of the officer's marriage, the beauty of his widow, the perceived leniency of the sentences.
The judge has to make a decision based on the evidence he has heard, and it has become clear that he was not moved to believe that the defendants deliberately intended to murder the officer.
We may think differently many people do, but once again, that is not what is taken into account.
I am sure an appeal against the sentences can and will be lodged, and that will also be heard and argued without emotion and personal feeling, as it should be, and as it has to be.
Until then, we must let the process take its course, there is little if anything else we can do.