Kill your wife, get banned from the pub..
Apparently it’s a more meaningful sentence……
A judge has told a Glasgow pensioner that stopping him going to the pub was a "more meaningful" sentence than a prison term for killing his wife.
Edward Flaherty, 74, was convicted of strangling 69-year-old Ina Flaherty with a tie after she refused to give him money to go out drinking.
He says he can’t recall throttling her and experts say he has dementia and is in physical decline, so that makes it ok then. He should have had a custodial sentence in double figures but a single year of a pub ban is just as good…..
Ah, domestic violence, will it ever stop?
I read this the other day, so disgusting! I mean, what the hell? In that case, it should be just fine for me to go kill my grandfather/abuser in a fit of rage, because I have PTSD from his abuse, so I should be able to kill him, right? And they can just ban me from my favorite local sub shop. That seems fair. But NO! I would go to jail forever, most likely. GRRRR. I hate the world sometimes.
Comment by buggle — August 7, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
Hi Buggle,
Not the Sub shop, that’s not a valid punishment. I think they should ban you from Tesco instead….
There’s actually more to this and he’s under house arrest from 11am until 11pm every day but it’s still ONLY a year. I do think that a custodial sentence would probably be wrong in this case, due to his mental condition, but only a year? It’s still so very very wrong and the judges comments about the “long and happy marriage” up to that point just make my blood boil.
Haven’t I seen you over at Witchy’s?
S
Comment by SharkBait — August 7, 2008 @ 3:59 pm