16 weeks for pitch invasion + assault

[HowardKennitby]

Doesn't seem very long considering what he did. What do you think would be appropriate.

http://uk.news.yahoo....ssault-081242777.html

[dotty.]

deporation to the salt mines and loss of a tv.

[sunny-dave]

Castration would be a good start - don't want the drunken scum breeding

< oooh I think I'm channeling my inner AoG >

[Duncer]

On a serious note, and as a Leeds fan, I recognise that judges are confined insofar as the lenght of the sentences, but I really do believe that a strong message shoud have been sent out in this case. This young man is, as profssionals will refer to, a ballbag!

[HowardKennitby]

^
Surely the assault on its own could have got more than 16 weeks.

[Duncer]

In my opinion he should have been sentenced for a very long time indeed, but I am a Draconian right-wing throw-back. I would guess that the judge in question was hamstrung. He really should have served some lengthy time.

[Ric.ror]

He supports Leeds - he's suffered enough ;-))

[Arksided]

^ lol yep.. agree

[EvianBaby]

Sounds about right to me.

[sir.prize]

And then there was the guy who interrupted the boat race - he got 6 months.

But he upset the aristocrats, didn't he?

[Mick-Talbot]

If everyone who had committed a similar assault was put in prison how many more prisons would we need to build?

Under the circumstances, it's about right.

[razza]

As a Sheffield Wednesday fan,I think they ought to have made a more severe example of him,as already stated he could have had a blade etc in his hand.I dont agree with Dave Jones saying ban all Leeds fans from away games because why should the minority spoil it for the majority.

[ichkeria]

I thought the fuss made about the Boat Race interruption was ridiculous. This was indeed far more serious, but on the other hand I do think the sentence about right. This individual comes from the first part of the UK to have one of its residents ASBO'd, so a fine tradition is being maintained there :-)

[EvianBaby]

Razza, 'could have' is not a valid argument if he didn't have a blade.

I haven't really read much about the case but who wasn't doing their job properly which meant he could even get to the goalie in the first place?

[Mick-Talbot]

as already stated he could have had a blade etc



You cannot sentence someone on what they might have had or might have done.

[Mick-Talbot]

EvianBaby
Razza, 'could have' is not a valid argument



O'dear......Evian is morphing into , andy hughes :0)

[EvianBaby]

Wondered why I was getting a 5 o'clock shadow.

[ichkeria]

It sounds like there was a general outbreak of bad behaviour inside the ground, including - so I have heard - members of the Sheffield Wednesday England band. Why this game was allowed to be played at this time on a Friday night needs to be questioned: all for TV. The pitch invader was out of his tree on alcohol at the time, and so I suspect were large numbers of the crowd.

[cathfromsaron]

and lifetime ban?

[Mick-Talbot]

Can I just add ........ David Jones is a Snag.