"Lying Eyes" Sharon Collins freed from prison

dublinman1990

This is way too early for her to be released. This good behaviour lark has got to stop. Sharon Collins was not meant to be released until 2014.

http://www.newstalk.ie/2012/news/woman-convicted-of-hiring-hitman-to-kill-partner-released-from-jail/

I hope she is not going to start all this hiring to kill stuff all over again. There is word from the herald that she was released during the summer to stay with a relative in Co.Clare.

What are your opinions on it?

Biggins

Regardless of her sex, the fact that a person did what she did and is out already?

Madness!

http://www.thejournal.ie/lying-eyes-sharon-collins-released-591908-Sep2012/

SHARON COLLINS HAS been released from prison, TheJournal.ie understands.
After serving three years and nine months of her six-year-sentence, the woman known as ‘Lying Eyes’ has been released from Mountjoy Prison.
The Clare woman was jailed on 28 November 2008 for soliciting a man to kill her wealthy partner and his sons.

Correction... fcuking madness!

Gee Bag

In fairness, it was possibly the most inept murder plan in the history of the state.

Heres a screenshot of the hitmanforhire.net homepage, real hit men use .com

0066ad

They probably needed her cell, for someone that hasn't paid their tv license.

Ristiano Conaldo

Àye, lock up garlic smuggler for 6 years but free a murderer after 3 years and 9 months... seems legit.

Welcome to Ireland

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

serious stink of male privilege in this thread lads

Madam_X

Seems pretty atrocious all right. Six years so release date supposed to be 2014 - what's the three months before the end of her official sentence ending about? Was it a concurrent sentence or something?

Don't think she'll be paying for any more hits though in fairness.

AnonoBoy

Gee Bag wrote: »

In fairness, it was possibly the most inept murder plan in the history of the state.

Well at least she can have another go at it now.

Biggins

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

serious stink of male privilege in this thread lads

"Male privilege" ?

I couldn't care if the culprit was male or female.
The sentence with her quick exit, is a sick joke!

Gee Bag

Ristiano Conaldo wrote: »

Àye, lock up garlic smuggler for 6 years but free a murderer after 3 years and 9 months... seems legit.

Welcome to Ireland

Eh, no one was actually murdered.

Madam_X

Biggins wrote: »

"Male privilege" ?

I couldn't care if the culprit was male or female.
The sentence with her quick exit, is a sick joke!

Think he was being ironic - highlighting double standard.

Haelium

Her solicitor has confirmed to Clare FM that her release is seen as “a temporary – but long term measure” as she is unlikely to return to jail and will officially be a free woman in December

"A temporary - but long term measure"

How... What?

Strawberry Fields

Let her out I say.

Typical woman let loose on the internet with a credit card.

Dream on anyone was ever gonna be murdered.

Biggins

Gee Bag wrote: »

Eh, no one was actually murdered.

In England and Wales, as an "attempt", attempted murder is an offence under section 1(1) of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 and is an indictable offence which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment - here, the max she got for planning attempted murder was six years, and out in just under four. LINK.

The law yet again is an ass in Ireland.

Honestly, where is the serious deterrent?

Rayne Wooney

How did she only get 4 years, this country is way too lenient.

"In September 2007, a British man was jailed in Dubai for possession of a microscopic grain of weed. The London Daily Mail reports that Keith Brown was arrested at the Dubai International Airport when customs officials found a crumb of weed on the tread of Brown's shoes. Brown, a father of three and a council youth development officer in the United Kingdom, was transferring flights from Ethiopia to London at the time. According to the Mail, the fragment of marijuana weighed only 0.003 grams. The particle of pot was invisible to the naked eye; however, it was still enough to violate the United Arab Emirates strict zero-drug policy. The Daily Mail warns that customs official in the sheikdom use state-of-the-art equipment to discover the smallest traces of narcotics"
This man got 4 years in a Dubai prison.

Justice at it's very best.

Quorum

DEFINITELY too soon. That woman gives me chills.

Gee Bag

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

How did she only get 4 years, this country is way too lenient.

"In September 2007, a British man was jailed in Dubai for possession of a microscopic grain of weed. The London Daily Mail reports that Keith Brown was arrested at the Dubai International Airport when customs officials found a crumb of weed on the tread of Brown's shoes. Brown, a father of three and a council youth development officer in the United Kingdom, was transferring flights from Ethiopia to London at the time. According to the Mail, the fragment of marijuana weighed only 0.003 grams. The particle of pot was invisible to the naked eye; however, it was still enough to violate the United Arab Emirates strict zero-drug policy. The Daily Mail warns that customs official in the sheikdom use state-of-the-art equipment to discover the smallest traces of narcotics"

Justice at it's very best.

Of all the examples of sentencing policy from around the world you could have used to make your point you chose this!

Ann22

Gee Bag wrote: »

Eh, no one was actually murdered.

I'd still see her as a murderer. That's what she fully intended to do. Evil,:mad: greedy leech of a woman.

Gee Bag

Ann22 wrote: »

I'd still see her as a murderer. That's what she fully intended to do. Evil,:mad: greedy leech of a woman.

I dont want to get all technical about it, but, if you don't murder someone then your not a murderer. Simples.

That said I can't argue with the greedy evil leech part.

My name is URL

Quorum wrote: »

DEFINITELY too soon. That woman gives me chills.

She's not very likely to try hiring a hitman again, is she?

dublinman1990

I don't like the possible notion of her staying with her two sons in Clare though. That is something that I feel is still wrong.

Do you think her aunt would like Sharon to stay with her? I think not.

Motorist

Such a dumb bltch handing over this Las Vegas scam artist thousands of euro. I reckon they released her so she can win herself a Darwin award.

NegativeCreep

She's just as bad as a murderer in my opinion. Is conspiring to murder someone not a serious crime in Ireland? She's a cold, evil woman who will be no good to society. Let her stay in jail and make sure she feels guilty for a good long while. I can't help thinking that if it was a man, they wouldn't be allowed out this soon. I'm probably being cynical though.

Colmustard

A fine thing, bit of a looper though

so not for me.

Quorum

Ann22 wrote: »

Evil,:mad: greedy leech of a woman.

Well, she's not a murderer but hells yes to this. ^^^^^

I don't understand how anyone can be so crazily greedy.

Quorum

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I can't help thinking that if it was a man, they wouldn't be allowed out this soon. I'm probably being cynical though.

As this recent case shows, men benefit from leniency in this country too. Well, if they have plenty of money, they do.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0730/lyons-jailed-for-six-months-for-sexual-assault.html

Nonoperational

Ristiano Conaldo wrote: »

Àye, lock up garlic smuggler for 6 years but free a murderer after 3 years and 9 months... seems legit.

Welcome to Ireland

Here we go again. Jesus it has nothing to do with garlic, it was tax evasion of over €1.6 million. The method of tax evasion is irrelevant. He could have been importing blow up sex dolls and it would still be tax evasion.


Bla bla bla bankers, evil developers, etc etc - and when someone who steals from the state is punished people freak out because sur it was only garlic.

syklops

My name is URL wrote: »

She's not very likely to try hiring a hitman again, is she?

Really? Having spent 4 years in prison she is now probably on first name basis with one or two.

Quorum

My name is URL wrote: »

She's not very likely to try hiring a hitman again, is she?

Who knows? This isn't about re-offending, it's about penance for a very serious crime.

Motorist

Quorum wrote: »

As this recent case shows, men benefit from leniency in this country too. Well, if they have plenty of money, they do.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0730/lyons-jailed-for-six-months-for-sexual-assault.html

The DPP are appealing the leniency of that sentence. That gob$hite Lyons who attacked the girl tried to blame his cholesterol medication, which was laughed out of court.

Motorist

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

How did she only get 4 years, this country is way too lenient.

"In September 2007, a British man was jailed in Dubai for possession of a microscopic grain of weed. The London Daily Mail reports that Keith Brown was arrested at the Dubai International Airport when customs officials found a crumb of weed on the tread of Brown's shoes. Brown, a father of three and a council youth development officer in the United Kingdom, was transferring flights from Ethiopia to London at the time. According to the Mail, the fragment of marijuana weighed only 0.003 grams. The particle of pot was invisible to the naked eye; however, it was still enough to violate the United Arab Emirates strict zero-drug policy. The Daily Mail warns that customs official in the sheikdom use state-of-the-art equipment to discover the smallest traces of narcotics"
This man got 4 years in a Dubai prison.

Justice at it's very best.

He was pardoned after a few days. Even the crazy Arabs saw how ridiculous they were being. Either that, or they feared massive loss of tourism. The particle was embedded in a cigarette butt that was stuck to his shoe.

Quorum

Motorist wrote: »

The DPP are appealing the leniency of that sentence.

Yeah, I heard that. It's good news though we'll just to wait and see what the outcome will be.

anncoates

What does she look like? You probably would.

Black widow danger ride and all that.

M three

Her sentence was lenient from the start because her husband, and intended victim, sorta testified on her behalf if I remember correctly. Told the judge he still loved her I think.
The gob****e.

my friend

Her tranny riding former 'man' will probably take her back under his wing, it's apparent he likes it in the gicker

I'm surprised his sons haven't disowned him, it's them that were potentially the innocent victims of this evil biatch

admiralofthefleet

0066ad wrote: »

They probably needed her cell, for someone that hasn't paid their tv license.

or someone who bought a shitload of garlic

BillyMitchel

Apparently the man she tried to murder spoke up for her too. Read that earlier.

What a gob****è!

token101

Gee Bag wrote: »

I dont want to get all technical about it, but, if you don't murder someone then your not a murderer. Simples.

But the only reason she isn't a murderer is because she's an inept clown. Why should the justice system reward incompetence? She fully intended to do something, it should be punished as if she had done it.

Ann22

token101 wrote: »

But the only reason she isn't a murderer is because she's an inept clown. Why should the justice system reward incompetence? She fully intended to do something, it should be punished as if she had done it.

That's exactly how I see it. It's just stupidity on her part and good luck on her potential victim's that she didn't go down for murder.

Gee Bag

Biggins wrote: »

In England and Wales, as an "attempt", attempted murder is an offence under section 1(1) of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 and is an indictable offence which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment - here, the max she got for planning attempted murder was six years, and out in just under four. LINK.

The law yet again is an ass in Ireland.

Honestly, where is the serious deterrent?

The guiding principle in sentencing policy in Ireland is proportionality, It's summed up in DPP V O'Driscoll which is quoted a lot in Irish cases-

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[FONT=cd9800348d99a6a109e23138#400400]“It is therefore the duty of the courts to pass what are appropriate sentences in each case having regard to the particular circumstances of that case – not only in regard to the particular crime but in regard to the particular criminal.”[/FONT]

This is why we have very few mandatory sentences in Ireland. The two best examples are murder which gets life and possession of drugs worth over €12,700 is supposed to get 10 years. If the DPP thinks a sentence is too short they can appeal it to a superior court.

AFAIK The relativley short sentence in the Sharon Collins case was imposed due to the utter ineptitude of the planned murder attempt and the high probability that she would not reoffend. If a known scumbag was found in possession of a gun near the home of someone he had threatened to kill then I think the sentence would mosy likely be a lot longer.

Irish law differs from English law in that preventative sentences are not allowed i.e. the court can't increase the length of a sentence in order to prevent possible future re-offending. If you think this is utter bollocks then I'd have to agree with you, but I don't think that would apply in this case. This is distinct from the parole system which can keep an offender in prison for the full duration of a sentence to prevent re-offending.

By the by attempted murder is a pretty difficult offence to prove in Ireland. There is a loophole in Irish law whereby if you were to attempt to murder someone but only succeeded in maiming them you can't be charged with attempted murder as you haven't succeeded.
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ArmaniJeanss

Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?

wes

Rather silly that she is being let out so soon imho. Far to lenient.

Mensch Maschine

Ristiano Conaldo wrote: »

Àye, lock up garlic smuggler for 6 years but free a murderer after 3 years and 9 months... seems legit.

Welcome to Ireland

....Moan about it on the internet and not do anything about it...

Welcome to Ireland.

Micky Dolenz

Whats the problem, it's not like she killed anyone.

tonyheaney

who is Sharon Collins?

omahaid

tonyheaney wrote: »

who is Sharon Collins?

You couldn't google it?

Corkbah

tonyheaney wrote: »

who is Sharon Collins?

from September the thread was buried ...and somehow you come on today asking who "Sharon Collins" is.

Mr. CooL ICE

tonyheaney wrote: »

who is Sharon Collins?

Hi Sharon

tonyheaney

omahaid wrote: »

You couldn't google it?

Hi there, there is a lot of garbage out there i wanted to use the boards.ie filter to see who she is

tonyheaney

Corkbah wrote: »

from September the thread was buried ...and somehow you come on today asking who "Sharon Collins" is.

wow you are very good for stating the blatantly obviousness of my question, well done

tonyheaney

LordChessington wrote: »

Hi Sharon

what now?