She lucky or what?

[super-seagulls]

Is this the same 'lady' which someone posted a link about on NSC a while ago, something to do with her hiding drugs up her snatch?
I'm sure her name was Sands too!

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

That's the thing, there has to be more to it

Sounds like she went a bit Harry Brown.

 

[drew]

Stabbed 8 times and it's called manslaughter. How many times did she have to stab him before it is called murder?

You don't seem to understand the difference!

 

[fat old seagull]

According to the radio reports, the judge said there were special mitigating circumstances which can't be revealed for publicly for legal reasons. You probably don't have to think too hard to imagine what the circumstances might be to drive someone to lose control to that extent.

I think before anyone considers she was dealt with too leniently, they would need to know what those circumstances were. I don't think it takes a whole lot of imagination to at least guess what they might have been.

......and if my personal assumptions are correct, I might have had a job not to have done for him myself !

 

[supaseagull]

Giving her 3.5 years is almost implying that two wrongs make a right

OK the guy was a scumbag but you can't have people just killing other people.

That's the state of the country when people know that the law won't deal with paedophiles and sex offenders in the only way that is deemed to be necessary.

she clearly wasn't able to trust the police or the appropriate authorities to do anything and so decided to confront the man herself.

Good luck to her I say. she will be out within a year hopefully.

 

[WATFORD zero]

According to the radio reports, the judge said there were special mitigating circumstances which can't be revealed for publicly for legal reasons. You probably don't have to think too hard to imagine what the circumstances might be to drive someone to lose control to that extent.

From my (albeit limited) experience of the Law courts, if you go behind the screaming headlines of the media and the three paragraphs that follow it, and sit through the FULL evidence and the FULL case, the vast majority of verdicts/sentences make sense. 'Person gets sensible sentence' doesn't tend to give much of a story though.

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

You don't seem to understand the difference!

Right, the blade accidentally pierced his skin 8 times. I must be missing something.