Kicking a dog to death

An absolutely horrible story.

I've no idea how he sleeps at night.

The defence BL I mean.

I thought well done to the judge initially reading he handed down a custodial sentence, I was surprised, but that surprise was tempered when I read 36 previous convictions at 19... WTF ???

A dangerous fûckwit like that needed a hell of a longer stretch then what he got... the force sent the dog over her head... sorry, a year minimum...

This is a despicable comment. So in your eyes, the other guy deserved to be beaten to a pulp for being a drug addict and shoplifting a greeting card?

virtually nothing will be done to address his psychological issues, so round and round we go......

...or maybe we need to invest significant amounts into our criminals justice system, to try reduce these outcomes, by integrating our other critical institutions and systems together, i.e. health care, education and training systems, etc etc etc

preventing crime from happening probably will never occur, its been with us since the damn of time, we need to be realistic with our goals, but we have learned an astonishing amount about the root causes of criminality over time, we just seem to be unwilling to truly do anything about it.... hence while jail is actually currently required, and probably always will be, to some degree

Prison costs me, as a tax payer, far too much for this sort of carry-on. This is the sort of person a sentence of hard labour should be handed down to. Repay your debt to society rather than live a carefree life without the worry of paying for your food and board.

There's far too much focus on preserving the 'human rights' of people like this who are imprisoned. As far as I'm concerned, someone who has repeatedly kicked and punched a man in an unprovoked attack, kicked a pet dog to death and has thirty-odd other convictions recorded has forfeited his 'rights'.

36 convictions at 19 not surprising really when you read the mothers a junkie and the father who they wont name is a gangland scummer aswell whos up in court.

at least he got some time inside. 6 months for a dog's life is not much, but on the other hand, two guys attacked me and broke my jaw. totally unprovoked. 3 years of having to pass these guys sneering and making threats in the street and what did they get? suspended sentence. not a single min inside. usual bs in court, broken home, addiction etc. they walked out of court laughing at me. fk this guy, fk the courts system and with all due respect to posters here fk anyone who defends this type of scum.

I hate animal cruelty, kicking a little dog like that makes me sick.

Only positive thing is most of these scumbags die young for one reason or another.

36 prev. convictions ... enough said.

His testimony in his defence indicates an ongoing risk to the public.

He lost his temper and saw no option except to hoof a dog 6 feet in the air? Next time it'll be some randomer on the street getting his head stamped on, or a girlfriend getting thrown around the flat because, "I lost my temper and I don't really know what happened".

I have sympathy for him. This guy got a very **** raw deal in life, two sh1tty parents and a childhood of serious trauma that very few have to endure. Ongoing anger and violence issues are absolutely, 100% explainable. Which is why restricting him from the general public indefinitely until a psychologist says he's ready to come back, seems like the most appropriate course of action here.

It doesn't even necessarily have to be locked up in a cell. After his sentence, stick him in a council flat under house arrest with an ankle bracelet, whatever. Just don't let him out in public until he's learned to deal with his problems.

See yer going wrong there with the notion of justice, my argument isn't about that. What's done with a rabid dog? Lock it up for a month and let it out again? No, it's put down. Where's the justice in that? People are always complaining about the likes of this lad and there will be reams of how terrible it is etc when he kills someone.

And here I am with a pretty simple solution. The sheep just don't like violence though.

This guy certainly got a raw deal from day one _ bad parents and probably not an ounce of discipline while young. They shouldn't have had him! But how many more like hom are there? In homes where there is no parenting whatsoever? They cause a wealth of trouble for others in society. It's awful to think of someone having no hope to change their ways but until this guy changes _ if ever _ he should be locked up. He and others like him would be better off of there was some sort of suitable punishment for youngsters and their parents who are out of control at an early age.

ive been informed primarily by mental health professionals, some who have worked within the criminal justice system, here and abroad, that some research has been done on this, and is publicly available. most inmates have been found to have a combination of complex psychological disorders, ranging from developmental disorders, learning disabilities, personality disorders, behavioral problems, various complex psychological and mental health disorders, addiction issues, and beyond.....

if you educate yourself in such issues, you can start to see elements of these disorders in others, most common amongst criminal classes and the long term unemployed etc

evidence is ever rising with these issues, yet we have little or no will to truly do much, if anything about them, theres simply not enough investment going on, to try tackle them. i interact myself regularly with disability services, as i have been diagnosed with autism and dyslexia. ive been interacting with mental health services, both public and private, and its disturbing to see how under funded they are, no wonder our mental health issues are rapidly rising, and we dont have the services to deal with them, they simply dont exist.

rising inequality issues have also been linked to rising criminal activities, other chosen policies such as austerity have also been linked, the list goes on and on and on......