Murdoch controls the country?

[Aseros]

BBC News - Murdoch foam pie attack: jailed

This guy gets a prison sentence for throwing shaving foam at him. If I done that to someone normal on the street then the police wouldn't batter an eyelid, and if it did get the court I would get a fine at most.

 

[strings]

Whilst I agree that the punishment was disproportionate to the crime, it did cause a Select Committee meeting to be disrupted. If you form-pied somebody in the street, that wouldn't have happened.

 

[dal]

he should of thrown a right hander at the aussie and got his moneys worth

 

[Storer 68]

done in a palace tho but still hardly throwing away the key - three weeks in clink for assault seems quite good

However it is tried, it is punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or both.

Relevant cases are:

R v. Nottingham Crown Court ex parte Director of Public Prosecutions [1996] 1 Cr.App.R. (S.) 283
R v. Dunn [2003] 2 Cr.App.R. (S.) 90
[edit] Racially or religiously aggravated offenceIn England and Wales, section 29(1)(c) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c.37) creates the distinct offence of racially or religiously aggravated common assault.

[edit] Status of offenceThis is the least serious assault and, under section 11 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004, a common assault can be an alternative verdict to more serious offences of assault. In real terms, the degree of fear or the level of injury required for a conviction can be slight. No injury is required to prove battery.

May-Bowles was ordered to serve three weeks in prison and pay a £15 victim surcharge and £250 costs.

 

[Rookie]

Good, it was a planned pre mediated attack. Deserves what he gets no matter who it was done to

 

[cjd]

3 weeks.... Nowhere near long enough.

He assaulted an 80 year old man for nothing more than a publicity stunt. Three years would have been more appropriate.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I'd have given him longer TBH - it was a pre-meditated attack, in part I'm sure just for the publicity - he didn't seem to have an actual point to make. Regardless that it was Murdoch - he's still an 80 year old man. The bloke was a twonk so deserved all he gets.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Say what You like about Murdoch,
I know for a fact that he was very touched by the messages of condolence left on Mitch Winehouses' phone.

 

[Husty]

3 weeks.... Nowhere near long enough.

He assaulted an 80 year old man for nothing more than a publicity stunt. Three years would have been more appropriate.

"Assaulted"? It was shaving foam.

 

[bhaexpress]

Basically this bloke's attack was more of a publicity stunt. Not a fan of Murdoch but he deserves his punishment. The courts have to come down hard on this sort of act as a warning to others who seek to disrupt Parliament. In Guy Fawkes' time he'd have been hung drawn and quartered.

 

[element]

Didn't the bloke have a hoity toity double barrelled name? Champagne Socialist I should imagine

 

[Itisfootballnotsoccer]

The video in slow motion is rather funny!

 

[SeagullRic]

3 weeks.... Nowhere near long enough.

He assaulted an 80 year old man for nothing more than a publicity stunt. Three years would have been more appropriate.

Three years for throwing a plate of shaving foam? Please tell me you're joking!

 

[SeagullTim]

Three years for throwing a plate of shaving foam? Please tell me you're joking!

I hope he is. It was a paper plate, and he didn't even throw it.

 

[cjd]

Three years for throwing a plate of shaving foam? Please tell me you're joking!

Yes,I was........I meant 30 years.

 

[dexter]

Good, it was a planned pre mediated attack. Deserves what he gets no matter who it was done to

this

 

[Silent Bob]

"Assaulted"? It was shaving foam.

You're forgetting that it landed on the sleeve of what was probably a very expensive suit.

 

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

Say what You like about Murdoch,
I know for a fact that he was very touched by the messages of condolence left on Mitch Winehouses' phone.

Like it , I like it

 

[BadFish]

I love this board. There was a thread a while ago suggesting it was okay to kill a burglar, but 3 weeks imprisonment for putting shaving foam on one of the most despicable characters of modern times is seen as getting off lightly.

 

[Silent Bob]

I love this board. There was a thread a while ago suggesting it was okay to kill a burglar, but 3 weeks imprisonment for putting shaving foam on one of the most despicable characters of modern times is seen as getting off lightly.

Those are positions entirely consistent with each other.