Soldier beats a woman unconscious, gets a great reference from his commanding officer, avoids jail.

Im not agreeing with the sentence but I don't agree with mob justice either. We need the appeals process to work.

I did find it particularly disturbing that he posted about it.

But he is now at the center of a media storm. That should end and the justice system allowed work.

A lot of the virtue signalers on here would be the same crowd giving out about single mothers who could be single because they had a violent partner.

They would also never contribute to women's aid etc

True but how many of them have caused so much controversy?

A lot of the virtue signalers on here would be the same crowd giving out about single mothers who could be single because they had a violent partner.

They would also never contribute to women's aid etc

wouldn't the wokes be supportive of single mothers and women's aid etc.? surely more likely to be supportive of it than the anti-everything brigade who are trying to attack everything natasha is doing and calling her fake etc.? the patriots attacking her generally hate women and don't want them to have abortion as an option etc., i think you're getting mixed up.

A hypocritical joke at that. He avoided a conviction for a previous unprovoked attack in 2014 in which he broke the victim’s eye socket. Will his victims be receiving a Dail standing ovation and Prime Time special?

What's the origin of the phrase used by Crotty when he posted about the tactic he used in the assault - "two to put her down, two to put her out". Is that a phrase used in martial or other activity training to describe how to incapacitate a person?

I don't think I'm getting mixed up at all. You'd have to ask people. People don't fit into neat categories.

You could be pro abortion yet give out about single mothers. You could be far right and be pro abortion etc

But I do accept that there are people who are attacking her. That's deplorable. But I also think the rush to the microphone needs to stop as it could be argued a fair appeal is now impossible.

To be fair men perpetuating violence on women is more common plus the whole story of the attack. The homophbia. The media posts.

Huh? Random stranger assaults is far more common male on male. I have never seen a male beat a woman no matter what the connection between them. It’s far rarer than males beating males.

Domestic violence is a different category. Natasha and her assaulter are strangers.

Maybe I misinterpreted your reply to Tomb

Merely said She appears to be no stranger to progressive politics

No , he's at far greater risk of being randomly physically attacked

Natasha made sure there was a backlash though, and fair play to her. People are literally getting away with murder in this country. I had a male relative killed over 20 years ago now by two teenagers, the only suspects, clearly guilty, and the judge threw it out on a technicality. Our family decided to try legal routes instead of making a lot of noise but that did nothing either. I was too young to be involved at the time but if they had made the noise Natasha is making now I really think it may have made a difference and those two c**ts wouldn't still be out there terrorising people, only a few years ago one of them robbed a girl with a knife to her throat and the judge let him off with it again because his ma gave a sob story about his heroin addiction and paid a few grand compensation. It's a ridiculous system we have, male or female.

Then way say what you said other than as an attempt to discredit by association?

Thing is, you absolutely are victim blaming. You're treating her as if she's "acting", implying that she's being controlled by an NGO. Then following by saying that her mannerisms make her more likely to be attacked. Your overall point amounts to saying she somehow provoked an attack and should be ignored because you think she's a mouthpiece of NGOs. You basically spend your post being as negative as possible about the victim of a violent attack, it's a bit sad tbh.

OK let me clarify my thoughts. The nature of the attack is horrendous. Male attacks on females they don't know are rare. The texts are nauseating.

Thus I can understand why this attack gets so much publicity.

But I would like if people who rush to post on this would also support women's aid. I doubt it. Though I would admit female violence against males in the home is under reported.

I hate virtue signaling as it amounts to very little.

As to the Judge he is entitled to make his judgement. I didn't agree with It but we should not encourage mob justice.

Let the DPP appeal if that's still possible after all this jumping on the band wagon.

In fact, Togher was required under military law to be present and to give a summary of Crotty’s service record if requested. Words like “exemplary” and “professional” are simply HR terms, military sources said, not a personnel endorsement.

So Crotty's commanding officer didn't give him a personal character reference as people earlier speculated.

Thread title should really be changed as a lot of people clearly jumped to the wrong conclusion on this.