Is Life This Cheap In 21St Century England?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2567496/Pictured-Shocking-moment-doting-son-killed-single-punch-head-row-cycling-pavement-killer-jailed-just-four-half-years.html

Four and half years that is all this thug got for killing a man, why can't such savages be made more of an example of?

[joeluke]

A punch like that is meant to either kill or do serious harm

4½ years is nothing

A life for a life

[youngmafbog]

Fights around the clubs in Bournemouth are alochol fueled and fights - two or more at each other.

This was an unprovoked vicious attack. Scum like this should be locked up for years, say 25. This sends out totally the wrong message.

I know where that happened I walk along there myself. So I'm not supposed to remonstrate with cyclists on the pavement? They ride along there when it is full of pedestrians including many foreign students.

He IS a savage - with a record.

[TWR]

What is the sentence abroad for the same type of thing?

[Orderlimit]

Blimey, eligible for parole in 2 years.

[sp1814]

TWR

Where specifically?

[Snafu03]

well if he received a sentence that was too heavy I'm sure 'community leaders' would be quick to point out why.

[emmie]

the case will be up for review, as to the sentence.

[FredPuli43]

At what point does he become a savage, AOG? When he punches someone? You are much exercised by the death. If this man intended to cause grievous bodily harm, he would have been convicted of murder. Clearly he didn't. Sentencing someone on the basis that what they did happened, perchance, to result in a death, quite regardless of their intent, or what they could foresee, or of what was not obvious as a consequence to any bystander, real or theoretical, is no way to run a system of justice, and we never have sentenced that way.