[AndyJackson]

one of victims was burned on his buttocks with a hot iron

Only two years for THIS? When you use any sort of tool or implement to effect mayhem the penalty should be topped by exactly only a couple of other crimes - rape, kidnapping and murder.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I agree wholeheartedly. Wantonly disfiguring another person's body is a serious crime, that ought to have serious consequences. Even as a callow youth I (and my peers) knew that this was a boundary that could never be crossed.