Did He Get Off Light Or What?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3330339/Millionaire-British-estate-agent-beat-death-German-paedophile-helped-launch-Katie-Price-s-clothes-range-catching-taking-pictures-children-set-spared-jail.html

[RandyMarsh]

You mean Ian Tomlinson?, who was just walking past and did not even speak to the guy that hit him?

[hc4361]

Talbot, how would you know the photographer was a paedophile?

[anotheoldgit]

RandyMarsh

/// There was also no riot AOG. ///

There was if you had selected the correct case.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/homeless-man-died-in-g20-riots-after-gratuitous-attack-by-pc-7857614.html

[anotheoldgit]

-Talbot-

/// I would go temporary insane if I caught a paedophile taking pictures of my children. ///

And so would most I would imagine, but the difference here is the fact that he had no paedophile badge attached to him at that time.

[RandyMarsh]

Mr Tomlinson was neither rioting or taking pictures of Mr Harwood's children.

[Zacs-Master]

AOG, I can't work out what parallels you seem to be making between the two cases. I can't see there are any.

[Zacs-Master]

'but the difference here is the fact that he had no paedophile badge attached to him at that time.'

The guy must just be a very good judge of character then.

[anotheoldgit]

RandyMarsh

No apologies for your mistake at jumping the gun and picking the wrong case then?

[hc4361]

There are billions and billions of photos of children that have been taken by strangers who are not paedophiles.

I expect I have a few hundred photos where children I don't know
happened to be in the landscape photo I was taking or in the background of photos of my wife and family.

I confess to taking a photo of a child I didn't know simply because I found the situation very funny - a little boy hanging on to the lead of a great dane that was determined to get to a pond in a park. It was cartoonish.

[RandyMarsh]

Not sure we spoke about Ian Tomlinson, we did about Eric Garner.

[anotheoldgit]

hc4361

Completely agree with you, when I took my grandchildren to the parks and their 'paddling pools' I also took my camera along, but nowadays it would be a complete no-no to do the same.

What has happened, especially when some deny things nowadays are no different to what they once were?

[anotheoldgit]

RandyMarsh

/// Not sure we spoke about Ian Tomlinson, we did about Eric Garner. ///

Who said anything about speaking about it, it was widely debated on at the time.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/search/?q1=Ian+Tomlinson

[Retrochic]

Justice was about right -he assaulted the guy but the death was an accident. If I had pushed someone over in a park for trying to abduct my grand daughter and that person hit their head on a swing and died then I would feel dreadful having killed someone, but it would be very different from going after the same person after the event, and assaulting them causing death. If that makes any sense......

[hc4361]

It is not illegal to take photos of anyone in a public place. It is not illegal to take photos of people in their own homes provided you do it from a public place.

[sp1814]

It's extremely easy to 'beat someone to death' with two or three punches.

There was a case last year where a chap was jailed for manslaughter because he punched someone outside a nightclub, and the victim happened to fall backwards and then hit his head on the kerb and died later in hospital.

Had the bloke fallen slightly differently, he may have fallen onto his elbow and suffered no more than a bruise.

Instead, you have one life ruined and another taken.

[-Talbot-]

Talbot, how would you know the photographer was a paedophile?

I just know!


Actually I only had time to read the DM headline.

"Millionaire British estate agent who beat German 'paedophile' to death after he took photos of his children in Spanish resort is to be spared jail"

Maybe things are not what they seem.
http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2015/02/18/murder-mystery-in-sotogrande-what-really-happened-in-the-luxury-resort-and-why/

[anotheoldgit]

-Talbot-

Thank you for that very interesting link, it gives a completely different insight into the case.