Racist tweets to Aluko get some dim sweaty banged up for a year. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Foot...-Sone-Aluko/story-21172610-detail/story.html?
I saw something about this on SSN but it was only described as an 'ex-Rangers player', didn't even think about it being our Shawnie. Agree with Tuckin though, I can't see how it can be right to send someone to jail for a year for saying nasty stuff on the Internet, and the fact it relates to race is irrelevant to me. I can't understand why this type of abuse is seen as worse than any other.
I guess if there was enough weed in there to show intent to supply, and if he had priors, then that would explain the sentence. Simply being a racist dick online isn't enough to get you banged up for so long - otherwise our jails would be packed from floor to ceiling!
In a day and age where racism appears to be becoming tolerated more and more, this is a welcome break. I think it's fairly obvious. I really can't believe you STILL don't get it.
Quote Originally Posted by PLT View Post I saw something about this on SSN but it was only described as an 'ex-Rangers player', didn't even think about it being our Shawnie. Agree with Tuckin though, I can't see how it can be right to send someone to jail for a year for saying nasty stuff on the Internet, and the fact it relates to race is irrelevant to me. I can't understand why this type of abuse is seen as worse than any other. I think it's fairly obvious. I really can't believe you STILL don't get it.[/QUOTE] I agree with PLT and think your the one who doesn't get TWF, abuse is abuse whether it is, rascism, sexcism, or domestic. None is worse than the other as the victims of all have the same emotional distress
Hopefully one day soon our legal system will find a proportionate tariff for internet drivel. Seems a way off as yet though.
20th May 2014 A DISGRACED former company director with a "voracious appetite" for indecent images of children had more than 300,000 of the sick pictures and videos on his computer, Hull Crown Court heard. Stephen Kay, 57, a former director and shareholder of IPS Group, built up a stash of still and moving images of child abuse, and even created his own network of *****philes to share them with. Some of the images and movies were described as "extreme". But Kay, of Snaith Road, Rawcliffe, walked free from court with a suspended sentence because he was deemed to have a very low risk of reoffending. Read more at http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Ex-c...1113946-detail/story.html#5cedFReYcgrs5PqR.99 1st June 2014 Man types nasty names to footballer on twitter is sent to prison. I REST MY CASE YOUR HONOUR.
The most worrying aspect of that story, is that the police returned his computer with the images still on it.
So if tweeting abuse get you one year in The Big House, on the same scale, how many centuries should having 300,000 pix/films of kids get you?
I'd say the most worrying thing about the story is that so many people think it has any relevance to a completely unrelated case. (Obviously the nonce bloke should have been sent down though).
Spot on, the thing with social media is, the evidence is there for all to see. No much defence really, you typed it we read it therefore guilty. PC Plod sit's on his arse in a nice warm office and up's the crimes detected / prosecuted statistics. If anyone call's me name's on here, no big deal in my opinion. But do it in the street to my face, it may end up with someone getting twated. That could be threatening behaviour, breach of the peace, assault, affray or any one of god know's how many offence's all of which would require Plod to get up and do something. That's just too much like hard work.
I'm not defending the faux fenian **** but like with a lot of these internet 'crimes' there's probably drugs, drink, mood swings etc going on. Easy hit for the coppers, gets their stats up, ticks the right box (hate 'crime'), minimal prosecution costs- what's not to like?
