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Drug addicts jailed indefinitely for brutal attack

1:03pm Friday 26th September 2008 in Crime Photograph of the Author By Jon Reeve, Education Reporter

Scott Speirs Scott Speirs

TWO violent drug addicts who left a Hampshire father in a virtual coma after a savage attack in a Southampton park have today been jailed indefinitely.

Scott Speirs remains completely unresponsive in a specialist neurological unit, nine months after being repeatedly punched, kicked and stamped on by Adam Stebbing and Liam Edwards.

Doctors say the 34-year-old will need 24 hour care for the rest of his life.

Today the pair were sentenced at Winchester Crown Court after a jury unanimously convicted them of attempted murder.

Stebbing, 32, of North Front, Southampton and Edwards 27, of Cunningham Gardens, Bursledon, left Scott lying unconscious in a pool of his own blood in Freemantle Lake Park on the evening of December 22 last year.

Judge Guy Boney told the pair their "cruel and unmerciful" violence had been almost beyond comprehension.

Had Scott died he said he would have jailed Stebbing for 17 years and Edwards for 16.

Those terms were halved because the charges they were convicted of were attempted murder, but Judge Boney said because he believes both pose such a high risk to the general public they should locked up indeterminately.

Taking account for time already spent on remand, Stebbing will serve seven years and 278 days before the parole board can even consider he be released.

Edwards must be jailed for at least seven years and 138 days.

Comments(20)

rich the stitch says...
1:48pm Fri 26 Sep 08

Horrible, dirty scum shoudl be locked up until, and if the guy makes a full recovering...and if he doesn't then lock them up for life. In saying that they will have a nice warm bed and 3 decent meals a day. Thinking about it, sod just kill 'em, dirty junkie scum.

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hulla baloo says...
1:50pm Fri 26 Sep 08

I cvannot see why the sentence is passed as 'indefinately'.
Their savage and brutal attack has left a man in this condition, taken away his life, and that of his close family.
Should have been a life sentence, as that is what they have condemned him to.
Unfortunately, they will probably bhe released after a few years.
Pathetic.

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southy says...
2:57pm Fri 26 Sep 08

well i got some spare rope we can use on them

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Adrian Smith says...
3:00pm Fri 26 Sep 08

"they should locked up indeterminately"

We could always save society some money during the great depression and terminate them both? Just an idea.

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Number6 says...
3:03pm Fri 26 Sep 08

This was an incredibly brutal unprovoked attack made worse by the fact that the chap laid undiscovered until the following day despite the junkie perpertrators returning to the scene hours later to collect a mobile phone which was dropped during the attack.
It's time that a government was brave enough to forget about pc nonsense and introduce hard labour into prison sentencing because locking people up like this is no deterrent on its own.Whilst incarcerated these vile specimens will be clothed,fed and kept warm and still have access to plenty of Class A drugs.I for one do not want them rehabilitated - I want them punished for a very very long time.

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Adrian Smith says...
3:58pm Fri 26 Sep 08

southy wrote:
well i got some spare rope we can use on them
Very green - low CO2 and can be re-used a number of times.

We really do need to get back to terminating vile scumbags like these.

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obelisker says...
4:59pm Fri 26 Sep 08

If memory serves me correctly one of these pieces of filth was turned over to the police by his own mother. She deserves respect for having the sense of justice to have done this difficult thing, sadly I hear that within her own community she is just thought of as a grass.

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Baybrit says...
5:39pm Fri 26 Sep 08

I'm not completely serious but sometimes I read stories like this and get so angry about such things as well as the earlier attack on the pensioner that I think that, after convicting such scum, a lottery should be held. The winner would be given a baseball bat and 5 minutes alone with the subhuman filth. I know that the PC bunny-huggers will recoil in horror at the idea of making the criminal pay the price but the sooner this stain on society realises that they are not going to get away with their disgusting behaviour the sooner they may scurry back under their rock and decent people can walk the street of their own community again without fear.

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obelisker says...
6:29pm Fri 26 Sep 08

Baybrit wrote:
I'm not completely serious but sometimes I read stories like this and get so angry about such things as well as the earlier attack on the pensioner that I think that, after convicting such scum, a lottery should be held. The winner would be given a baseball bat and 5 minutes alone with the subhuman filth. I know that the PC bunny-huggers will recoil in horror at the idea of making the criminal pay the price but the sooner this stain on society realises that they are not going to get away with their disgusting behaviour the sooner they may scurry back under their rock and decent people can walk the street of their own community again without fear.
Is that the PC Bunny Huggers that works out of Shirley Nick ? He's the one who tells us to 'Hug a Hoodie' is'nt he.....

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sainth says...
7:56pm Fri 26 Sep 08

southy wrote:
well i got some spare rope we can use on them
crikey, Southy, I believe that this is the first time that you have made a comment that makes sense.

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obelisker says...
8:24pm Fri 26 Sep 08

sainth wrote:
southy wrote:
well i got some spare rope we can use on themcrikey, Southy, I believe that this is the first time that you have made a comment that makes sense.
Southy always gets his comments in the Echo letters page, only after complete translation and editing turns them into a sensible statement. Also why do they keep printing Teresa Rumseys incredibly unfunny plays on words, she makes Philip G Hawkins (another regular gag-miester) sound like Ricky Gervais...

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Quite Frankly says...
12:38am Sat 27 Sep 08

All you brave little internet warriors with your anger, baseball bats and rope. Many states in the good ol' US of A have the death penalty. Does it deter people from heinous crimes like this?

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Finlay says...
12:47am Sat 27 Sep 08

Septic puss

I hope they never see freedom again

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Condor Man says...
9:59am Sat 27 Sep 08

Finlay wrote:
Septic pussI hope they never see freedom again
For as long as this government is in power the safety of the public cannot be assured as they are hell bent on emptying the prisons.

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Number6 says...
10:35am Sat 27 Sep 08

Condor Man wrote:
Finlay wrote:Septic pussI hope they never see freedom againFor as long as this government is in power the safety of the public cannot be assured as they are hell bent on emptying the prisons.
I haven't heard anything coherent coming from the opposition with regard to law & order and any other problems currently being faced by ordinary people in this country.So what is the alternative?

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southy says...
10:52am Sat 27 Sep 08

Quite Frankly wrote:
All you brave little internet warriors with your anger, baseball bats and rope. Many states in the good ol' US of A have the death penalty. Does it deter people from heinous crimes like this?
but how many apply letter of the law and carry out the death penalty. ie:- when was the last time new york used the electic chair in there state.

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The Real Denzil says...
6:05pm Sat 27 Sep 08

Condom man, the penal estate has the highest amount of prisoners ever. Probably because they lock up too many petty offenders.
Hulla, you don't see how it's indefinate? Indefinate means no end, the clues in the word, the seven odd years is the bare minimum they have to serve. Like with a life sentence, which is 99 years but the judge will give a minimum. the chances of them being released are after the minimum are slim. They have to prove they are no longer a danger to society, and no not to some do gooder.

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The Real Denzil says...
6:07pm Sat 27 Sep 08

Oh and southy, new York's crime rate has plummeted in recent years, yet other cities more desperate to use their death penalties are still rising. the man of knowledge that you are, do some research, you'd be surprised what's working and what's not.

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southy says...
8:01pm Sat 27 Sep 08

i know its dropping a little bit denzil,but new york state has one of the longest list of inmates on death row in the states,the point i was making the threat is there but its not used or very little used even in the southern states and is only used in exstream cases when it is used.

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owner says...
9:39pm Sat 27 Sep 08

these two guys should have got life without parole i was there being the first 999 crew i can tell u all i have never seen somebody beaten so badley ever i still find it hard to sleep at night seeing this lad and finding out that they came back words fail me

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