Don’t worry, attacking a dying woman is only three years.
‘A man who urinated on a woman as she lay dying and shouted “this is YouTube material” has been sentenced to three years in prison.’ bbc.co.uk report, thanks Auntie.
Listening to this BBC report on the radio I contemplated what a sick society we live in; however, my incredulity was not tried enough, yet. I was only half listening to the news now, imagining the woman’s humiliation as the man covered her in shaving foam and urinated on her. I can hardly imagine a more terrible scene of death.
Given in his defense is that he was under the influence of marijuana and alcohol. This is no defense, surely the court is meant to measure out judgment as some level of compensation for the man’s actions; his state of intoxication makes no difference to the crime from the victims end, not only did he not help or phone for help he gloried in making her last moments as close to hell as possible. He may feel that it’s YouTube material, but I feel that it’s more than a valid excuse to lock him up for many years. That he was a former soldier makes this crime even more horrific, this man was trained to help in extreme danger zones and impartially remove resistance with an aim to preserve human life, it would seem that dialing 999 (the emergency services) was too much for one of such high caliber.
‘A director who presided over redundancies as she swindled money from a company to support a lavish lifestyle has been jailed for five years.’ bbc.co.uk report, thanks again Beeb
As I said, my mind had taken precedent over my ears as I mused over this terrible incident, however, one thing was left to shake me to the core. It would appear that the courts in this country value corporate theft above the defilement of and failing to aid a distressed and dying woman. Gentle reader, I do not intend to be judge, jury and executioner; I have no intent nor the pretension to believe I have any right or even the ability. However, I do feel a deep resentment and what I can only describe as riotous wrath that the legal system should treat someone in this way.
I’m unsure what can be done to rectify this situation, after all, past experience would bring me to believe that it’s only one of many. Past experience would also bring me to believe that we are probably not told everything which we might be and would need to be to discover the true state of affairs, however, I still express my genuine outrage at what seems to be a great injustice.
Yours, disgusted, Robert.
Edit 01:27 27 Oct: Fixed more to Valtr0n’s liking 
October 27th, 2007 at 12:23 am
Definitely a very and bizarre event, made stranger still by the attempt at rationalizing the crime by stating he was under the influence of alcohol and/or marijuana. Worse still, in my opinion, is the daft state of things with the UK prison systems (perhaps all prison systems). Several of my friends in the UK have told me in the past that prison is almost an enjoyable experience in the UK, inmates are allowed televisions, cable, and in some cases video game systems for their cells. I’m also told a lot of women have children because there is some way for them to make a great deal of money from government assistance or something along those lines. In the USA we have similar programs for assistance but I’m told they do not compare to those in place in the UK at present. Overflowing prison populations are likely the reason for the short sentence time, and just another symptom of a much larger problem with our modern society as a whole.
October 27th, 2007 at 12:32 am
This chap was stoned and drunk when he did this. If someone can call that a defence, I can just as easily call them stupid.
If you can’t handle your liquor without disgracing yourself, others, and society, stay off the fucking bottle.
If you feel the need to augment your stupidity with tetra-9-hydracarbonate, then you deserve everything you get.
Private, I hope you drop the soap.
Then maybe you’ll experience a subset of the humiliation you inflicted on another.
October 27th, 2007 at 12:39 am
I know you don’t presume to be judge, jury, and executioner, but if you don’t, who will?
I’m fairly certain the legal system in both of our countries falls very, very short of anything one could call “justice.” You can’t count on any sure punishment to take place in the “afterlife” either, can you?
Become vengeance.
October 27th, 2007 at 1:48 am
I had heard of this case myself, and was just as horrified. I have massive problems with the state of any legal system that allows such large discrepancies in sentencing. But, much as you said yourself, I in no way profess to hold any viable answers to this issue, so feel suitably powerless to stop such atrocities.
October 27th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
I would not presume to judge people, for one thing I don’t believe that people are good or bad, just people. Your actions make you what you are, a Nazi soldier may have committed many atrocities yet still give a child a glass of water and save their life.
The problem with the legal system is that it’s too obsessed with precise crime, and too distant from reality. Crime is never prescribed, this man did something truly awful but there was nothing on the books to say how he could be dealt with. The woman did something which I see as nowhere near as bad, she (to our knowledge) never was involved in extinguishing life. Yet her crime is judged by the courts to be worse because they have a prescribed method of dealing with it.
However without prescription how can we exact fair justice? This is a problem which I see no solution to.
Kind regards, Robert.