After hearing every one of the twelve jury members confirm their guilty verdict we all then looked over to Chief Justice Williams to see how he was going to decide how to sentence the accused party.
"Right-" he started. "Now on to sentencing" he advised. "I don't believe that I need to remind you all the seriousness of this crime; and I do believe that we all need to act accordingly" he advised. "Yes, their willingness to help with the case has been noted since their arrest" he noted. "And of course I will take into account their guilty pleas," he continued. "But this does not take away the grave nature of this crime" he said sadly. "You not only conspired to kidnap our King-" he stated. "You also conspired to brutally hurt and maim him," he added.
"Within connection to Mrs Adams-" he said. "You also intended to inflict pain onto her as well. You manipulated her. Made demands to her. Threatened her" he continued, which made me purse my lips together. "And you also had the conspiracy to rape and kidnap her; and for these reasons alone I must act and take this case seriously" he explained sternly.
"So I will start off with Mr Bobby Bailey-" he started and Bobby looked at him hopefully. "You are the ringleader of this venture," he told the court. "You partaken in every single part of this plot, for your own self gratification. So of course you are going to be dealt with most seriously" he warned him. "When I look at you Mr Bobby Bailey I can see the threat that you not only pose to His Majesty and his wife but the threat that you pose to other people in society" he continued. "I don't believe that rehabilitation would be beneficial in your case," he added. "So with this being said with a heavy heart" he said. "That-" he started but stopped to purse his lips together. "I sentence you Mr Bobby Bailey to live on the Isle of the Lost for the rest of our natural life, with no chance for parole" he finished and I watched as Bobby's face dropped in shock at this as his mother screamed at this.
"You can't do that!" His mother screamed as Bobby quickly turned around and looked at me.
"Mal honey" he directed to me, which made Ben pull away and look down at him. When Bobby's and Ben's eyes met Bobby grimaced at Ben before looking back at me. "Tell him!" He exclaimed. "Tell them!" He urged. "You love me, you want to be with me" he insisted and I felt something within me snap.
"No I don't!" I snapped. "I never have loved you!" I called to him to see his face drop. "When will you take a hint?" I barked at him.
"MAL!" He roared. "I will get you for this-" he started but he was quickly cut off by Chief Justice Williams.
"TAKE HIM DOWN!" He roared; and we watched as Bobby was approached by two guards who attempted to lead him out of the dock. However Bobby had other ideas; he fought against the two guards, causing two more guards to run forward and help restrain Bobby. Thankfully it didn't take very long for them to frog march him out; but this wasn't before he threatened both me and Ben a handful of times.
When he was finally torn out of the room I started to think about the sentencing that Bobby had just received and thought whether that was the best place for Bobby. But I quickly stopped questioning this - of course it was! Heck! There were even people on the Isle who had done less than Bobby! He needed to be locked away on the Isle; so he couldn't cause any harm to anyone else.
I actually felt sorry for his parents; they didn't want to lose their son. And I didn't want that for them either; but no one could ignore the servility of the crime that Bobby had put together.
"I now come on to the rest of the accused-" Chief Justice advised, obviously wanting to take us all away from the scene that had happened with Bobby. "Yes you all have been involved in a heinous crime, I have however noted that you wouldn't have come together as a group and acted if you weren't propositioned by Mr Bailey" he advised. "And you all have given accounts of the fact that you never actually harmed His Majesty yourselves" he added. "You were however very still involved, so I have decided to take another course of action for the rest of you" he advised and I watched as the rest of the accused party took a deep breath in to steady themselves. "You will all serve a prison sentence at the newly built Auradon Correctional Prison for a term of no less than ten years and no more than fifteen, with the chance for parole" he announced and I watched as the five remaining members of the accused party all had blank looks on their faces. "You all will also have to pay compensation to His Majesty to the sum of £10,000 pounds" he advised. "And as you all were so heavily involved and invested in the manipulation and suspected rape of Mrs Adams you will have to pay her a some of £10,000 pounds" he quickly added. In all honesty I didn't want the money; Ben's safety meant a lot more to me - but I knew that I couldn't state this at this moment.
"Prince Chad Charming, however, as you are a Prince of the Kingdom I believe that you should pay a sum of £25,000 pounds for your involvement in the venture to both His Majesty and Mrs Adams" he stated and I watched as Chad nodded at this.
"I will now move onto my closing statement-" the Chief Justice called, and the room fell into silence once more as we waited for him to conclude this trial.
