jb03 said:I thought the man robbing the old lady was the lowlife of the week
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jb03 said:I thought the man robbing the old lady was the lowlife of the week
Harry said:Goldstein was on his way home in the back of a cab as they drove past a man robbing an old lady. The taxi driver jumped out to help the old lady. Goldstein wound down his window and shouted "Stop! Stop it! Stop the meter".
TigerForce said:Geoffrey Rush now.....the list is building...
Yeah, I just don’t get sentencing for the death of another person. Murderers getting 30, 20, 15 year sentences with minimums. Manslaughterers getting 10, 8 year sentences with minimums.MD Jazz said:Nathan Rodney O'Malley, 40, was sentenced to 11 years' jail on Thursday for the manslaughter of 41-year-old Olivia Tung at an Eight Mile Plains caravan park.
I have a real issue with sentencing in cases like these. Here is a prick who has a history of domestic violence. Here is what the judge said
"This was not the first occasion on which you had inflicted violence on your partner," Justice David Boddice said.
"In my view, your conduct properly is to be described as involving a brutal, unprovoked attack on a slight, vulnerable woman.
"Your actions then demonstrated a complete disregard for her; it also indicated a lack of remorse."
The court was told Ms Tung had lost a significant amount of weight and was seen with bruises on her face prior to her death, which occurred a year after O'Malley was convicted of assaulting a previous partner.
And he gets 11 years, of which he can apply for parole after about 8. So he'll likely get out and do it again.
Why is this bloke going to get another crack at life outside? Should be locked up, not to be released. I would actually have no issues with putting down an animal that behaved like this, why do we treat this animal any differently?
In the context of the gender political culture wars we're seeing playing out in the media (very much played out after the Jill Meagher and Eurydice Dixon murders) there's a strange kind of disconnect with all of this too.tigertim said:Yeah, I just don’t get sentencing for the death of another person. Murderers getting 30, 20, 15 year sentences with minimums. Manslaughterers getting 10, 8 year sentences with minimums.
Why murder isn’t automatically “life” is beyond me.
Panthera Tigris said:In the context of the gender political culture wars we're seeing playing out in the media (very much played out after the Jill Meagher and Eurydice Dixon murders) there's a strange kind of disconnect with all of this too.
If you were to survey the community on crime and sentencing and ask questions on what penalties people would like to see for abhorrent crimes - such as aggravated rapes, aggravated rape-murders, murdering children, men beating women to death, these sorts of things. You'd find the people who would like to see the most heavy handed penalties dished out, would actually be more conservative people - particularly conservative men (perhaps with chivalrous values).
Certainly a man such as Adrian Bayley should never have been out and about, given his previous history of sexual violence towards women. Similar to Nathan O'Malley who has continually shown a tendency of violence towards women. It is simply not safe for the community for these types to be out. Yet it's more progressive folk who have actually contributed most to the leniency such offenders are treated with.
Depends what time period you're speaking in the context of. For instance - going to the absolute extreme - 60-70 years ago you'd have been hung for the most abhorrent crimes.KnightersRevenge said:Can you flesh that out PT? The most common actual research I hear about had most people ending up at similar or lighter sentences when given all the same data as the judges/juries.
Not sure there is any evidence of a real increase in leniency but I am happy to be proved wrong.
Yeah, this “research” judges and magistrates etc spout when justifying their sentencing has become almost mythical.KnightersRevenge said:Can you flesh that out PT? The most common actual research I hear about had most people ending up at similar or lighter sentences when given all the same data as the judges/juries.
Not sure there is any evidence of a real increase in leniency but I am happy to be proved wrong.
tigertim said:Lowlife James Gargasoulas found guilty. You’d think he,ll get life when sentenced but will probably be 30 years or something like that.
tigertim said:Lowlife James Gargasoulas found guilty. You’d think he,ll get life when sentenced but will probably be 30 years or something like that.
Panthera Tigris said:Ah our p!ssweak justice system strikes again. Useless as a a *smile* flavoured lollipop at a lesbian convention!
Anthony Sampieri - the dirty, perverted prick accused of forcibly sexually assaulting a 7yo little girl at a Kogarah dance studio, and then attacking a man that came to her aid, with a knife. He was out on parole for previous violent sexual assaults he had been jailed for. And in recent weeks, had allegedly been sexually harassing a range of women in the lead up to this week’s events.
How are people like this even out?
Tell you what. If it was someone close to me that he assaulted, a brown paper bag would change hands to ensure he didn’t make it out of the slammer unscathed. Apparently after stabbing the gentleman that came to the young girl’s aid, he was knocked out cold by another man, who is a former amateur boxer. Shame a prick like this didn’t fall and hit his head on the ground, causing permanent incapacity or death, when he was punched.
Yeah, wasn’t he the one bagging Carlton for its lack of “culture”?Mr Brightside said:Beside the obvious this week , Rhys Palmer has to be up there for *smile*wit of the week for throwing his shoes at the horses in a trotting race , what a dead set flog
Correcttigertim said:Yeah, wasn’t he the one bagging Carlton for its lack of “culture”?