Gene Gibson case 2
An Australian Legal System is a place of fair treatment and judgment with the law but sometimes this isn’t true, and people can be badly treated and judged. Today I’ll be talking about West Australian man Gene Gibson and explain how he was not treated equally.
Gene Gibson was an Indigenous Australian living in Kiwirrkurra Broome WA and was suspected to have killed Josh Warneke (Victim) in 2010.
My first statement on how Gene was not treated equally connects with one of the principles of justice, equal treatment before the law. How Gene connects with this is during questioning with police, Gene is illiterate, his first language is indigenous Australian (barely knows any English) and he has been diagnosed to be mentally impaired. with Gene has had all this he did not understand the police, he was not given translation (yet) and signed documents he didn’t know what they were for.
My second statement is that Gene was not allowed a translator till later in the case so Gene didn’t know what was going on at all and he didn’t know what was happening this isn’t as all people deserve a right to equal treatment and gene wasn’t.
ways I think the legal system can improve is to give the right to a translator straight away give equal treatment to those with mental or physical issues and to give people who are illiterate an equal chance and to listen to key witnesses of the case.
In conclusion, i believe Gene Gibson deserved more and shouldn’t have been treated so badly i also believe he didn’t deserve 5 years in prison