Today, Mr Foley's Defence Counsel Donal O'Sullivan told the court that he had failed to mention yesterday a principal in law which accepted that some mitigation in sentencing is granted to former guards and prison officers because they were likely to suffer more in prison.
I see no problem with this. The conviction will have a profound impact on his life, far more so than a person from a criminal background who was convicted of the same offence and had to serve 6 months.
The guy will lose his job and social standing. It will change the rest of his life.
The proverbial scumbag on welfare convicted of the same crime will do his 6 months (which probably means 2 months inside) protected by his friends and emerge out the other side to continue his life where he left off with no adverse impact on income or social standing.
yeah but it must be nice to work in a job where you can commit nearly any crime at will and know you wont be going inside no matter what!There are plenty of examples on people not serving time for assault. If this was the first exception then I would agree with you but it isn’t.
There is the point that society gives members of the Gardai have more power than normal citizens and so it is incumbent upon them to live and be judges by higher standards than the rest of us. In my opinion this is the only real argument for the person in this case spending time in prison.
Article in the press today here in England about a burglar who was sentenced to eight months in prison has been released after one month. The judges at the Court of Appeal held that locking him up deprived his five chidren of their right to a family life under ARTICLE 8 OF the Human Rights Act.
The lunatics really are running the asylum!
................He and three other men raided the premises, taking only some chocolate, before he and one of his accomplices drove off in a transit van.
He said he was beaten as he got into a taxi and next remembered waking up in hospital with bleeding on the brain, a broken nose, broken bones in his face and a few broken teeth.
An independent witness, Charles Wilkinson, described to the court how Mr Murphy had been 'knocked clean off his feet to the ground' after he was punched in the face.
He said Mr Murphy was unconscious, while the Foleys walked away.
In fairness the injured party didn't want the Garda to go to jail (clearly a lot more decent a human being than the Garda).
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Is it not the situation where if a prostitute was raped that the perpetrator is dealt with MORE harshly.this is based on the blindingly obvious..
So I would have thought that those who are there to implement laws should in fact be dealt with MORE harshly..based on the obvious..
Is it not the situation where if a prostitute was raped that the perpetrator is dealt with MORE harshly.this is based on the blindingly obvious..
So I would have thought that those who are there to implement laws should in fact be dealt with MORE harshly..based on the obvious..
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