Off Topic If a football fan had done this...

... do you think they would have got more than 18 months? Arm waving at people yards away behind a wall of police and stewards gets you more than that. Look at the sentences handed down for the Huddersfield scuffle. Handed down to City fans that is because as usual the plod didn't manage to apprehend any away fans.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ltiple-fractures-beaten-man-stopped-help.html

 

Aye I saw that. Disgusting.

This is good news though.

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/John...iting-murder/story-25986120-detail/story.html

 

I've just read that and the sentence is nowhere near appropriate to the crime . They should appeal and get a decent judge. The poor lad was trying to help, I don't think he'll bother again.

 

18 months
just what's wrong with this pathetic country

give me strength.. the judicial system in this country is ****ing pathetic

and i hope all the judges die.. because people who commit horrific crimes.. it makes me sick..

 

More people should be encouraged!

 

its not good at all

 

The verdict last week for the men who beat a lecturer on his doorstep in Wimbledon saw some of them getting 18 years. What's the difference in the cases that leads to such a variation in sentence?

 

makes me sick

 

judicial system here is a joke

should be life in a wee cell.. never seeing daylight again

 

They also turn a blind eye to innocent chocolate bars getting battered; bloody heathens!

 

I remember the 'battle of Walton Street' when a couple of dozen banned Huddersfield fans sat in George pub all afternoon then hid among the bushes outside the KC and battered the first people leaving the stadium. Old men, kids and women. When some City fans fought back the Huddersfield mob ran away and hid behind a protective police line. Humberside Police moved heaven and earth to claim it was an organised 'meet', sought the Hull people down and some received jail sentences of up to three years. No weapons were used. One Huddersfield fan was eventually tracked down and arrested, and 18 from Hull I recall.
Twelve months later another 'battle of Walton Street' took place. Two rival tribes of our ethnic brotherhood met on the same street and fought each other using knives, clubs and other weapons, according to the HDM. Some travelled from Leeds and the Midlands for this obviously organised meet.
I don't recall anyone getting jailed or even arrested.

 

Jesus Christ - those injuries are horrific. Amazing that he didn't suffer brain damage. 18 months? I hope he gets a 'special' friend inside.