Is This Justice?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2492572/Ex-Manchester-City-youth-player-Courtney-Meppen-Walter-released-prison-high-speed-car-crash.html
This savage is back on the streets after 8 months in Butlins, his victims and their families get a life sentence.

[Islay]

How does this sentence compare to others of a similar instance, do you have a theory as to why he got of so lightly?

Why call him a 'savage'?

[viv41]

No, not justice TTT and the fact that he's comparing his light senrtence to an 'injury' and bragging about all the time he spent in the gym and now looks 'sexy', then yes indeed he is a savage! What an insult to the family of the deceased.

[mushroom25]

this all happened nearly 4 years ago, and mr meppen walker is now with stockport county. not sure why it's popped into the public consciousness again now?

[viv41]

Oh I didn't know it was four years ago.

[andy-hughes]

This is an immature uneducated arrogant young man, and like any immature arrogant young men with given skills as a footballer, he has been given an obscene amount of money by a football club in order potentially to exploit those skills for financial gain.

What the club have failed to do - as football clubs always fail to do with immature uneducated arrogant young men, is give them some education in perspective, to allow them to understand just how supremely lucky they are to have a recognised talent, and that they acquire some responsibilities, including the ability to behave like a mature adult and accept that actions have consequences.

This young man is behaving like any immature uneducated young man would in his situation - he has assumed the mantle of unassailable arrogance and self-importance because his employers allow him to become distanced from the real world, and encourage him to behave exactly as he wants without consequences.

The situation is unlikely to change any time soon, because successful club managers have more often than not been successful club players, and behaved exactly as this individual has done.

Witness someone like Jose Mourinho, who ponces around with a nine figure bank balance calling himself the 'Special One' and unable to crack a smile if his life depended on it - that is the sort of person who manages footballers.

Until football can produce a system where young over-paid 'stars' understand the concept of words like 'No', then their behaviour and attitude will mirror the behaviour and attitude shown here.

Is it legal justice? Yes, it is what the law has decreed.

Is it moral justice? No - far from it.

But then, when fame and money walk in through the door, morality and humility tend to dive out of the window.

[viv41]

^ Totally, 100% agree.

[ToraToraTora]

well, rub me down with the observer, I am forced to give a rare BA to Andy! Thanks Andy, good answer, correct of course, sad that it is.

[andy-hughes]

Thanks Tora - a BA is all the sweeter when it comes from someone who usually holds views, 'slightly' differently aligned than mine!!! LOL!

[jambutty]

Yes, good best answer.

[andy-hughes]

Thank you jambutty.