Dublin City is dangerous because of this leniency

BornIn84

I mean, what is it going to take to give harsher sentences out???

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/teen-18-who-blinded-magician-in-one-eye-in-city-centre-glass-attack-gets-partially-suspended-sentence-36508875.html

1874

First I read of this, I see these posts and I nearly just dont want to bother replying, I know Ill be told that the judges are justly and accurately applying the law, are limited by some legal technicality or other.
After reading that, I feel sickened, the Judge said "he accepted he may not have intended to blind the man" and later "that in order for there to be hope for the criminal's reform",
Reading further, it seems at his young age, I consider a severe penalty should be imposed, I cant see why he shouldnt do the full 14 years, he may not have intended to blind the man, although you'd wonder what he might expect would happen doing what he did in his attack, but he should be put away for his dangerous actions and the fact his actions resulted in the blinding of that man in his eye and could have been much worse (along with his other brave record).
Not just for his actions, I think a hard line needs to be taken and remove dangerous people from the streets, when they show no signs of reform, its better for the rest of us if they are gone, if they decide to commit crimes and then repeatedly ad infinitum, then they may rot in jail for the rest of their lives for all I (and I suspect most) could care if they are so violent and unreformable.

Samuel T. Cogley

My magic trick would be making the scumbag 'disappear' if he'd done that to me or a loved one.

Gaspode

This happens everywhere, putting Dublin in the title & posting here is diminishing whatever valid point you nay have wanted to make. Is this yet another 'let's slag Dublin in the Dublin forum' type thread or is it about the failings of the Irish judicial system?
Lets face it the judiciary are fecking up a lot lately it seems so that should really be the focus here, thats the issue not Dublin.

lawred2

14 years with the last 4.5 years suspended.

I've seen far more egregiously lenient sentences handed out. Having said that with 16 previous convictions, the likelihood of this scumbag turning his life (for what that's worth) around is fairly minimal!

How many chances should these f**cks get?

FreudianSlippers

lawred2 wrote: »

14 years with the last 4.5 years suspended.

I've seen far more egregiously lenient sentences handed out. Having said that with 16 previous convictions, the likelihood of this scumbag turning his life (for what that's worth) around is fairly minimal!

How many chances should these f**cks get?

Is your issue with the suspension or the term?

lawred2

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Is your issue with the suspension or the term?

My issue? I'm not the OP.

FreudianSlippers

lawred2 wrote: »

My issue? I'm not the OP.

Oh, you didn't comment on the thread about the sentence. My bad.

:rolleyes: