Student protester jailed

badcompany · 11 Jan 2011 at 19:21

HA HA

Surfer · 11 Jan 2011 at 19:27

AcidHell2 said:
Fixed on phone in pub, what do you think it is a complete new set of policies, it is both parties policies mergedand altered.

Agreed on that, kinda......well no not really....so the merging of tory and libdem policy on tuition fees = a total and utter reversal on the side of the libdems?

Also i would have expected the libdems to have abstained on the tuition fee vote. Rather than being at the forefront of policy which is anaethema to their ideals.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...betrayalrsquo-over-tuition-fees-15026153.html

Glaucus · 11 Jan 2011 at 19:44

Yes, it's a merger,. We'll Give You tuition fees and we'll implament one of the LD policies. Thats how negoration work in any walk of life.

mikeyp123 · 12 Jan 2011 at 01:52

Not gonna lie, the way he photographs/comes across, there is something a bit vacant about him, it actually creeps me out.
He deserved a sentence, not 3 years but definitely deserved a sentence.

thecremeegg · 12 Jan 2011 at 01:58

What a joke of a sentence! 3 years?! He didnt even injure someone! There are thugs that constantly harass, steal and attack other people and they get let off with asbos. Our justice system is screwed

Mucky_Pup · 12 Jan 2011 at 02:03

Pleased with the sentence, hopefully being bummed in jail will screw some sense into his stupid head.

Anyone else think if he wasn't in the news for this, he would have been in the news in a few years time anyways, after having been discovered wearing a homemade leotard made out of the skins of prostitutes he's strangled to death using the cable from a SNES controller, he's got that sort of look about him.

bledd · 12 Jan 2011 at 02:10

bledd. said:
It's #### and stupid to do what he did, but surely 500 hours community service or something would be more apt here?

Jail will just mess up his whole life, and cost us money

Is it just me who thinks this?..?

I'm all for executing paedos and removing hands for theft btw.......

mushroomsoup · 12 Jan 2011 at 02:17

Hmmm, perhaps a few months in jail and the rest as a lot of community service would be better that a whole year or two in jail. I think he would learn his lesson with that.

mikeyp123 · 12 Jan 2011 at 02:18

vonhelmet said:
If he wanted to do all those things he should have bought a 20p biro and written a ****ing letter to his MP. Not thrown a fire extinguisher off a roof at the rozzers. Honestly, what else would the expected outcome be?

Issue is, the entire protest was on the basis of MPs not fulfilling their promises. But still, he's an idiot.

steve-h · 12 Jan 2011 at 02:24

Good, he did a moronic thing... but if you compare it with some of the other sentences people get... it's probably because of media pressure than anything.

[FnG]magnolia · 12 Jan 2011 at 02:43

Welp, he doesn't look like he's surrounded by student solidarity in that picture, does he?

steve-h · 12 Jan 2011 at 05:14

[FnG]magnolia;18206629 said:
Welp, he doesn't look like he's surrounded by student solidarity in that picture, does he?

Why would he be? People like him ruin their message.

They weren't on that day either... it wasn't long after he threw it thousands of people were chanting "stop throwing ****".

I don't suppose the news showed that part though.

Vonhelmet · 12 Jan 2011 at 08:24

scorza said:
Got any evidence to back that up? Prison is supposed to rehabilitate people, fair enough if this isn't the guys first offence but I can't see how sending him to prison for three years isn't going to do anything other than make him more likely to re-offend in three years time. I thought the judiciary were supposed to be free from political interference?

Any evidence to back up the long sentence being given to act as a deterrent? Well, the sentencing judge said that was the reason, so...

Django x2 · 12 Jan 2011 at 09:08

I was catching up with the story again last night in the paper. It made me chuckle when I read through and found a small 2x1 article about a restaurant owner who beat a 2 year old boy to the point of suffering from severe bruises. He got 6 months suspended sentence

Stupido · 12 Jan 2011 at 09:53

Had I not seen the video of the incident posted by someone on page 2 of this thread I would have said that it was an exceptionally harsh and unjustified sentence.

However the video clearly shows his intent to injure someone in the crowd below.

I.e he emptied the contents of the extinguisher onto the crowds below him. Then paused for a few seconds and swung (aimed) the extinguisher and let it go. It is very obvious from the video that he was intending to drop it on the crowds of riot police below him from the manner in which he swung it prior to release.

he was lucky not to be charged with attempted murder.

Tefal · 12 Jan 2011 at 10:23

Stupido said:
Had I not seen the video of the incident posted by someone on page 2 of this thread I would have said that it was an exceptionally harsh and unjustified sentence.

However the video clearly shows his intent to injure someone in the crowd below.

I.e he emptied the contents of the extinguisher onto the crowds below him. Then paused for a few seconds and swung (aimed) the extinguisher and let it go. It is very obvious from the video that he was intending to drop it on the crowds of riot police below him from the manner in which he swung it prior to release.

he was lucky not to be charged with attempted murder.

yeah looking at the video it's definitely not the "got carried away, forgot about the crowd, wasn't thinking" situation people have aid that was deliberately aimed.

[TW]Sponge · 12 Jan 2011 at 10:24

Rotty said:
Harsh ? could easily have killed someone

Yeah but people who do kill people get less than that sometimes. 3years for throwing something off a building is ridiculous.

Vonhelmet · 12 Jan 2011 at 10:27

sponge999 said:
Yeah but people who do kill people get less than that sometimes. 3years for throwing something off a building is ridiculous.

Throwing something off a building at the police was always going to carry a heavier sentence, and rightly so. A crime against the police is a crime against the authority we live under, and that has to be more heavily punished.

Cosimo · 12 Jan 2011 at 10:29

Tefal said:
yeah looking at the video it's definitely not the "got carried away, forgot about the crowd, wasn't thinking" situation people have aid that was deliberately aimed.

Well he most certainly did not do it for a laugh.

edgedemon · 12 Jan 2011 at 10:32

Rotty said:
Harsh ? could easily have killed someone

But he didn't...
He should have gone down, but 18 months would have been more realistic

Im basing that on the amount of people who do actually kill someone and get sentences less than 10 yrs..