Further To, Is Life This Cheap In 21St Century England?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2568819/Killing-man-Its-no-big-deal-As-Attorney-General-deluged-calls-increase-sentence-sneer-mother-thug-punched-Aspergers-sufferer.html

/// The mother of a thug who killed an autistic man dismissed his crime as ‘no big deal’ last night. ///

/// In a display of callous indifference, Sherron O’Hagan said she did not know ‘what all the fuss was about’. ///

By this vile woman's comments, I think that in this case it is safe to put the blame on the parents.

[fbg40]

Lock her up as well !!
FBG40

[emmie]

she says her son is a good kid, not by the footage and his previous he isn't

[ummmm]

What awful reporting. Why did they feel the need to mention that his parents were unmarried. I'm guessing it's to make us judge them more harshly than we already do.

[sp1814]

AOG

"By this vile woman's comments, I think that in this case it is safe to put the blame on the parents."

Possibly.

[boxtops]

The perpetrator is not exactly a child unaware of his own actions. It's his fault too. I'd deluge the Attorney General about this one, too, if I knew how to go about ti.

[ummmm]

Reading the article are you actually confident that she said that?

[emmie]

whatever she did or didn't say, the bloke is neither a kid, nor good, he has previous and he punched a man so hard, that he fell and died from his injuries, that is not a good bloke

[ummmm]

Where have I suggested he's a good bloke?

[emmie]

the mother says he's a good kid, i was merely stating that he obviously isn't.

[ToraToraTora]

I'm struggling to see why ummmm is clearly taking up the case of this woman and her savage offspring, curious.

[ummmm]

I suppose you have to know someone. Good people sometimes do bad things and vice versa.

I'm not defending or condoning what he did but it's not like he set out to kill someone or thought that he would kill someone with one punch.

[Prudie]

Was his medical cause of death the punch itself or cracking his head as he fell on the road? I'm not belittling the crime but as I said on another thread, punches like this occur all over the UK on the streets which usually don't have such serious outcomes.

[ummmm]

I'm not taking up any case. I just think it's shoddy reporting and I wouldn't trust that what she said hasn't been taken out of context.

[emmie]

perhaps he didn't set out to kill, he wasn't even the one being questioned about his behaviour by the man who died, he was a friend of the cyclist, so why did he think to intervene, his punch ultimately killed a man, he already had a suspended sentence over him, for which he received a further few months.

[emmie]

it might be shoddy reporting, or it might be she said those things, it says in the article and in the metro, that this is nothing special, no big deal, tomorrrow's fish and chip paper, oh well.

[ummmm]

Like Prudie said, it happens all over the UK, it just fortunately doesn't end in death.

[jackthehat]

In the cold light of day, *all* Lewis Gill did was punch Andrew Young.
That this punch was the major contributory factor to Mr Young's death is indisputable but Gill did not intend to kill Mr Young.

I wonder quite what questions were asked when Gill's mother was interviewed (it appears to have been more of a door-step ambush than any sort of considered interview) and the published answers, whilst they may well be her words, can assume entirely different meanings depending upon which particular question she was answering at the time.....and which bits have been left out.