Outrageous: Cricketting burglar-basher jailed

[BlackenedBiker]

Surely worthy of an MBE not jail time

[RichardCranium]

KUATB.

[rootsnall]

You've got to set some limits, the sentence maybe sounds excessive considering the circumstances. The most annoying part is the burglar got a slap on the wrist, they tied them up and had knives

To clarify, I agree you can't allow revenge attacks. But in the circumstances this particular sentence seems a bit heavy condsidering the build up to the cricket bat incident.

When I say the burglar got a slap on the wrist, I mean he was prosecuted for the initial burglary and got let off with no jail sentence.

[RichardCranium]

Absolutely.

As a citizen you should be entitled to grab some mates and mob-handedly hold these people down in the street and beat them about the head with a variety of weapons until they are permanently brain-damaged.

It's the only way these people will learn.

Meanwhile: Keep Up At The Back.

[threaded]

Surely worthy of an MBE not jail time

Yes, because my understanding is it looked very much like the family was being set up for an execution. IMHO offence is the best defence in such situations.

So the system says you go to jail, at least you're still alive.

[BoredBloke]

You've got to set some limits, the sentence maybe sounds excessive considering the circumstances. The most annoying part is the burglar got a slap on the wrist, they tied them up and had knives

I thought the penalty for carrying a knife was supposed to be quite high - 5 years or so. So this guy burgled a house and tied up and threatened the occupants with a knife. The knife part of that alone should have been 5 years

[Spacecadet]

I thought the penalty for carrying a knife was supposed to be quite high - 5 years or so. So this guy burgled a house and tied up and threatened the occupants with a knife. The knife part of that alone should have been 5 years

I thought he escaped jail because his brain damage meant that he was no longer fit for prison

[lilelvis2000]

The law and judges are buffoons...I see it everyday in the area my wife works in.

[Spacecadet]

Classic Daily Mail Commentard

Yet another reason to emigrate - the country is going to the dogs. Sack this judge and free the poor men!
- Linda, Switzerland, 15/12/2009 09:43

So did Linda read the article, emigrate out of disgust and then comment from her new home?

[Doggy Styles]

Classic Daily Mail Commentard

"Yet another reason to emigrate - the country is going to the dogs. Sack this judge and free the poor men!
- Linda, Switzerland, 15/12/2009 09:43 "

So did Linda read the article, emigrate out of disgust and then comment from her new home?

I do it all the time. I've got properties all over Europe and, when the EU particularly upsets me, Zimbabwe.