Thus making you no better than him.

c’mon PG..unintended..opportunist…the offender saw a little old lady with a handbag..picked her up and threw her to the ground and stole her pension money…you dont get much lower than that. On cue, the slime is going to show remorse when he is caught and he will be wearing a suit..the lawyer will wheel out the old ” he was abused as a child trick” and ” the offender has a drug problem “. Nah sorry PG..your thinking is old hat….we need to be dealing to these low lifes and 15-20 in the can is a starting point…personally Id take the guy out the back and beat the living shit out of him.

What if he was an opportunist snatch thief, and the lady just lost her balance and fell? Still a crap thing for the guy to do but no reason to have a blanket over reaction with the sentence.

He has none. Was found under a cabagge.

But 15-20 years is not even close to realistic.

..and this has been the problem to date. Judges looked at previous sentences for a particular crime and then ended up with a wet bus ticket type of namby pamby soft cock sentence.

This particular offender should receive 15-20 years jail .

So you think a non custodial sentence for this offence? You need ya head looked at.

..I wait with baited breath to see what sort of wet bus ticket bitch slap sentence a certain ” we are looking for a male maori ”
offender gets when they find who is responsible for the attack/robbery of an 88 year old lady in a Christchurch shopping mall car park the other day. Tell me Pete George..what sort of term do you think should be given for a crime like this?

A guy in new york was just sentenced for about 70 years in prison for bashing a 100 year old lady. She didn’t even die.

The same crime in nz might only get a couple of years jail.

The yanks have got it right. I understand crime in new york is pretty low now.

ask a victim of crime..any victim if they were happy with the sentence handed down to the crim…9.5/10 will tell you they were not.

If victims of crime were able to choose the sentence we would have a much less balanced justice system than we have now.

In fact in this case it’s quite possible the victim wanted a minimal or no sentence, that’s not uncommon for victims of domestic violence.

And as an example in cases of accused violence with separations and child custody disputes there could be major injustices.

There are good reasons why we try to have impartially imposed sentences rather than starboard sentences.

Remember the Inglewood incident?

phool, here is a chance to promote veganism

Don’t be hypercritical though — armed robbery and all that!!

if they beat their partners, they are just as likely to beat their kids

Not for one moment defending anyone who hits anyone else for any reason. But whatever gives you that idea, at least in relation to those men involved in custody disputes?

I’ve worked with men against whom the most reprehensible lies have been told in the Family Court. Often, the women who’ve stooped to that level have done dreadful things within the relationship which have provoked the man into striking them.

Certainly they should be held to account for resorting to violence. But the likelihood of those men hitting their children is very small, and drops to virtually nil for those involved in the Family Court – because if they didn’t love their children they wouldn’t be fighting for them – it’s much easier, and considerably less expensive, to walk away.

Yes, there are thugs who think nothing of hitting women and children. But you won’t find too many in the Family Court. That’s the point D4J makes, and it’s a valid one.

FFS – I think this is the first time I have ever agreed with anything you have ever posted.

Well done. There are some men who are arseholes about how they treat women, and I’m glad you finally recognise that, rather than blindly defend them on custody issues, because if they beat their partners, they are just as likely to beat their kids.

Hope springs eternal!

Do the entertainers have a Platinum Bathroom or is that reserved for the politicians and the entertainers share the gold one with Rugby players?

In NZ that’s the magic key to the Gold Bathroom that washes away All Crimes – now including GBH/attempted murder.

December 5th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Today many prisoners sit in a cell for having committed far lesser crimes than this wife beater.

What were you in for again? I forget. Making false complaints to the Police, wasn’t it?