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Gang knocked out reveller and kicked him in the head on London Road, Southampton
4:00am Thursday 11th October 2012 in Crime
By Sian Davies, Senior News Reporter
Knocked out and kicked in the head
IT was any one of three things that could have killed Michael Stimson while on a night out in Southampton.
The initial punch to the head that caused him to black out, the moment his head smashed against the road as he dropped unconscious to the ground or the kicks and punches that were rained down on him as he lay helpless in the street.
The savage attack by three men on the 29-year-old was captured on CCTV that also went on to film the trio high fiving each other in congratulation for their actions.
The film was played in Southampton Crown Court as the trio, Dean Longhurst, Ben Diaper and Charles Cornhill, were sentenced for their parts in the attack.
There were gasps of horror from the families of the defendants, while Judge Gary Burrell branded the footage “appalling” as they saw how the drink-fuelled assault unfolded.
Prosecutor Rachel Robertson said trouble had been simmering between the group Mr Stimson was with and the three men.
It was claimed that Mr Stimson had hit Diaper, knocking him to the ground before his two friends then came to his aid squaring up to Mr Stimson’s group and asking who had thrown the punch.
When Mr Stimson stepped forward, added Ms Robertson, he was hit in the head by Dean Longhurst.
She said: “Mr Cornhill is then seen to run up to where he (Mr Stimson) is laying and kick him with full force in the face.
“Mr Diaper is then seen to kick Mr Stimson to the face while he is still laying prone from where he fell.
“He then bends forward and punches him to the face while he is still on the ground.”
She went on to describe how the group run off, high fiving each other as go.
Police arrested Diaper nearby while the other two were found hiding in a house near to the train station after being spotted climbing through a window.
By this time fisherman Mr Stimson had regained consciousness in the back of an ambulance.
Shocked passers-by had given first-aid and put him in the recovery position until paramedics arrived, the court was told.
He had no serious injuries but wasn’t able to work for three weeks after the assault in July as he suffered from dizzy spells, headaches and sickness.
Mitigating for Longhurst, Andy Houston said the 20-year-old of Croydon Close, Southampton, had drunk £40 worth of £1 drinks and shots in bars.
He had no previous convictions and had never hit anyone, he added.
For Diaper, 22, of Church Street, Southampton, it was said he had begun committing offences after his mother died when he was 18 and he found himself evicted from the home they shared.
It was also revealed in court that in committing the offence Cornhill, 20, was in breach of a suspended sentence.
All three admitted causing actual bodily harm.
In sentencing Cornhill to 12 months in a Young Offender’s Institution, Diaper to 10 months in prison and Longhurst to a six-month sentence suspended for 18 months, a nine month supervision order and a six month curfew, Judge Burrell QC said it was sheer luck they had not been facing a manslaughter charge.
Following the case PC Jim Dineen said: "Kicking and punching someone in the head when they are unconscious is a despicable and cowardly crime and the three offenders are very lucky that the consequences weren't much, much worse “The most disgusting aspect for me was the way they appeared to celebrate with a high five when Mr Stimson could easily have been lying dead."
Comments(65)
chunky_lover
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6:54am Thu 11 Oct 12
andreww
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7:17am Thu 11 Oct 12
Why did they not get a longer jail term?
Pathetic wastes of space.
SFC1976
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8:11am Thu 11 Oct 12
Oh well thats more of our tax money keeping Scum alive in prison for the next few months mind you it was prob our Tax money that paid for their drinks in the first place.
We are way to soft in this country people get off way to softly.
Over the Edge
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8:23am Thu 11 Oct 12
Huey
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8:51am Thu 11 Oct 12
rich the stitch
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8:52am Thu 11 Oct 12
Just another reader
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8:53am Thu 11 Oct 12
Raxx
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9:04am Thu 11 Oct 12
Just another reader wrote:They fully deserve to be publicly shamed.
There's no need to have this video on here. The guys have been convicted, please remove it.
sotonwinch09
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9:16am Thu 11 Oct 12
Just another reader wrote:No way. Keep the video. These scum need to be seen by everyone.
There's no need to have this video on here. The guys have been convicted, please remove it.
Huey
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9:24am Thu 11 Oct 12
rich the stitch wrote:FLOGGING is the answer.
The reason sentences are so low is because is cost so much to keep someone inside. A friend of mine is inside at the moment, to say he’s enjoying it isn’t true, but it’s not as bad as he thought it would be. TV all day, gets to play his guitar and has made a few mates that he hangs around with. You couldn’t drag him out of the cell when the Olympics were on. This needs to change, unless you have a family/ and or people you will truly miss – although you get to see them once a week, prison should be a place where you are punished, not where your life is effectively just put on hold for a few months.
They are clearly guilty.
They need to understand how much pain and humiliation their actions will cost them.
My god it would stop thugs like this in their tracks if they knew the cat was waiting for them.
Lack of dicispline is ruining this country.
ToastyTea
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9:26am Thu 11 Oct 12
Linesman
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9:30am Thu 11 Oct 12
sotonwinch09
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9:36am Thu 11 Oct 12
ToastyTea wrote:The video lasts for 1min 30 seconds. Maybe they were 30 seconds away?
sickening, should have got longer, vile scum. I was surprised the police did not get there quicker seeing as somebody is watching the cctv and there is a police station about 2 minutes drive away ???
egghead65
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9:40am Thu 11 Oct 12
St Retford
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9:54am Thu 11 Oct 12
georgetheseventh
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9:56am Thu 11 Oct 12
Linesman
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9:59am Thu 11 Oct 12
georgetheseventh wrote:If you are going to Australia, don't think that you are leaving this behind.
My God..this place is getting worse than Manchester...thank heaven my emigration documents have arrived
rich the stitch
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10:12am Thu 11 Oct 12
St Retford wrote:NO IT DOESN'T!!! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!!
People do too much cocaine these days. It makes everyone really uptight.
Georgem
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10:15am Thu 11 Oct 12
SFC1976 wrote:I don't disagree with you, but I think complaining about the tax burden of justice is unreasonable. We want a justice system, and that, unfortunately, costs money. There's simply no way of avoiding that fact. We can't demand justice, AND demand that we don't pay for it.
People like this are a waste of skin evil horrible thugs who think it is funny to pick on one lad bet they wouldn't be so brave if they came up against a group of lads get one of then on their own and they would prob SXXT themselves.
Oh well thats more of our tax money keeping Scum alive in prison for the next few months mind you it was prob our Tax money that paid for their drinks in the first place.
We are way to soft in this country people get off way to softly.
Rockhopper
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10:17am Thu 11 Oct 12
If the attackers were that drunk it would not have been possible to run away as easily or as fast as they did.
These violent thugs should be locked up for 3 years minimum and all should have curfews/tags placed on them.
Georgem
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10:24am Thu 11 Oct 12
rich the stitch wrote:Wow! Take it easy, Tony Montana!
St Retford wrote:NO IT DOESN'T!!! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!!
People do too much cocaine these days. It makes everyone really uptight.
kingnotail
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10:28am Thu 11 Oct 12
georgetheseventh wrote:Manchester: sometimes violent, sometimes seedy but never, ever, ever boring.
My God..this place is getting worse than Manchester...thank heaven my emigration documents have arrived
In contrast, Southampton is violent, seedy and boring as hell!
G-man1
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10:33am Thu 11 Oct 12
rich the stitch
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10:50am Thu 11 Oct 12
Georgem wrote:Swooosh, did you just hear something go over your head?
rich the stitch wrote:Wow! Take it easy, Tony Montana!St Retford wrote: People do too much cocaine these days. It makes everyone really uptight.NO IT DOESN'T!!! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!!
Georgem
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10:55am Thu 11 Oct 12
rich the stitch wrote:No, I got it. I was colluding.
Georgem wrote:Swooosh, did you just hear something go over your head?
rich the stitch wrote:Wow! Take it easy, Tony Montana!St Retford wrote: People do too much cocaine these days. It makes everyone really uptight.NO IT DOESN'T!!! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!!
St Retford
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11:22am Thu 11 Oct 12
kingnotail wrote:Manchester is nearly always boring. Outside the town centre (which is the ugliest in Europe and has been taken over by men in suits and black shiny shoes who work in 'financial services') it's a featureless, post-industrial wasteland where patches of derelict earth sit next to miles and miles of poverty-stricken 1960s council estate and red brick terraced homes where bored youths gather outside shops called things like 'Booze'n'Fags', all set against a backdrop of constant, half-hearted drizzle. The Smiths could only have come from such a place.
georgetheseventh wrote:Manchester: sometimes violent, sometimes seedy but never, ever, ever boring.
My God..this place is getting worse than Manchester...thank heaven my emigration documents have arrived
In contrast, Southampton is violent, seedy and boring as hell!
MGRA
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11:29am Thu 11 Oct 12
Georgem
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11:30am Thu 11 Oct 12
MGRA wrote:In an ideal world, the assault wouldn't have taken place at all.
in an ideal world the guy that kicked him in the head and punched whilst he was balcked out woulf be doing 20 years for attempted murder... instead they get to go to butlins ( or the inland equivalent )
St Retford
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11:36am Thu 11 Oct 12
MGRA wrote:I think I have a solution. When was the last time you saw someone getting 'gunged' on television? It's a dying artform, isn't it? How about instead of sending young offenders to prison, we stick them on prime time telly and publicly gunge them, only with a mixture of blood, snot, vomit and various other bodily fluids?
in an ideal world the guy that kicked him in the head and punched whilst he was balcked out woulf be doing 20 years for attempted murder... instead they get to go to butlins ( or the inland equivalent )
O, and the show is presented by Ross Kemp rather than Noel Edmonds to give it the necessary 'gravitas'.
It would save us money, deter far more villains and be a lot more entertaining than X Factor.
Inform Al
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11:38am Thu 11 Oct 12
egghead65 wrote:weed is a bigger killer than alcohol, muppet
dirty youth of today.ban drink not weed.
St Retford
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11:44am Thu 11 Oct 12
Inform Al wrote:Really? That sounds unlikely.
egghead65 wrote:weed is a bigger killer than alcohol, muppet
dirty youth of today.ban drink not weed.
Inform Al
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11:45am Thu 11 Oct 12
elvisimo
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11:50am Thu 11 Oct 12
Inform Al wrote:hmm - dont think so.
egghead65 wrote: dirty youth of today.ban drink not weed.weed is a bigger killer than alcohol, muppet
Raxx
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12:00pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Inform Al wrote:Erm.... No. Just, no.
egghead65 wrote:weed is a bigger killer than alcohol, muppet
dirty youth of today.ban drink not weed.
Georgem
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12:00pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Inform Al wrote:Guys, I've found it! The most incorrect thing ever said on the Internet!
egghead65 wrote:weed is a bigger killer than alcohol, muppet
dirty youth of today.ban drink not weed.
Georgem
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12:02pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Inform Al wrote:It's an awful deterrent. Have a look at how effective it is in the US, in states which still have a death penalty. It's rubbish. It has no deterrent effect whatsoever.
I was dragged up in a very deprived part of London and punch ups were quite prevailent, but on reaching the age of 18 most of us avoided trouble and if caught up in a punch up made sure the blows were not hard enough to cause real harm. None of us wanted to end up on the end of a lenght of rope. Bring back.hanging. Cheaper than prison and a very effective deterrent.
Georgem
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12:05pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Georgem wrote:It's also not cheaper. Do you know how long people spend on Death Row? Still, I do like your ironic user name.
Inform Al wrote:It's an awful deterrent. Have a look at how effective it is in the US, in states which still have a death penalty. It's rubbish. It has no deterrent effect whatsoever.
I was dragged up in a very deprived part of London and punch ups were quite prevailent, but on reaching the age of 18 most of us avoided trouble and if caught up in a punch up made sure the blows were not hard enough to cause real harm. None of us wanted to end up on the end of a lenght of rope. Bring back.hanging. Cheaper than prison and a very effective deterrent.
St Retford
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12:18pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Georgem wrote:That's a bold claim and one that certainly needs verification. Maybe he was talking from the perspective of the plant kingdom?
Inform Al wrote:Guys, I've found it! The most incorrect thing ever said on the Internet!
egghead65 wrote:weed is a bigger killer than alcohol, muppet
dirty youth of today.ban drink not weed.
roofspace
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12:20pm Thu 11 Oct 12
WobblyCat
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12:32pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Georgem wrote:Never mind it as a deterrent, what about giving low lifes what they deserve and the guarantee that they wont ever be doing it again.
Inform Al wrote: I was dragged up in a very deprived part of London and punch ups were quite prevailent, but on reaching the age of 18 most of us avoided trouble and if caught up in a punch up made sure the blows were not hard enough to cause real harm. None of us wanted to end up on the end of a lenght of rope. Bring back.hanging. Cheaper than prison and a very effective deterrent.It's an awful deterrent. Have a look at how effective it is in the US, in states which still have a death penalty. It's rubbish. It has no deterrent effect whatsoever.
Hdg end mo
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12:36pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Georgem
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12:40pm Thu 11 Oct 12
WobblyCat wrote:"That guy you hanged this morning. Are you sure he's dead?"
Georgem wrote:Never mind it as a deterrent, what about giving low lifes what they deserve and the guarantee that they wont ever be doing it again.
Inform Al wrote: I was dragged up in a very deprived part of London and punch ups were quite prevailent, but on reaching the age of 18 most of us avoided trouble and if caught up in a punch up made sure the blows were not hard enough to cause real harm. None of us wanted to end up on the end of a lenght of rope. Bring back.hanging. Cheaper than prison and a very effective deterrent.It's an awful deterrent. Have a look at how effective it is in the US, in states which still have a death penalty. It's rubbish. It has no deterrent effect whatsoever.
"Well, his neck broke, and he danced about for a bit before his heart stopped. That usually does the trick."
"Err, any chance you can get it going again? We got the wrong guy"
Problem is, it might guarantee that one person won't be doing it again. It doesn't stop the next guy from doing it.
mack chinnon
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12:49pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Inform Al wrote:Wrong.
egghead65 wrote:weed is a bigger killer than alcohol, muppet
dirty youth of today.ban drink not weed.
Ted Rogers
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1:27pm Thu 11 Oct 12
The video also shows Stimson's 'Friend' fleeing the scene leaving him at the mercy of the defendents prior to them chasing him up the street.(Good mate!)
So we see a group of violent individuals prepared to use the street as a venue for violence when numbers are in their favour. One group come off worse and are immediately portrayed as the 'Victims'
They should've all been locked up - morons.
kingnotail
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4:14pm Thu 11 Oct 12
St Retford wrote:You could just as easily be talking about Southampton. But what has Southampton given the world? Benny Hill and a boat that sank 100 years ago.
kingnotail wrote:Manchester is nearly always boring. Outside the town centre (which is the ugliest in Europe and has been taken over by men in suits and black shiny shoes who work in 'financial services') it's a featureless, post-industrial wasteland where patches of derelict earth sit next to miles and miles of poverty-stricken 1960s council estate and red brick terraced homes where bored youths gather outside shops called things like 'Booze'n'Fags', all set against a backdrop of constant, half-hearted drizzle. The Smiths could only have come from such a place.
georgetheseventh wrote:Manchester: sometimes violent, sometimes seedy but never, ever, ever boring.
My God..this place is getting worse than Manchester...thank heaven my emigration documents have arrived
In contrast, Southampton is violent, seedy and boring as hell!
Georgem
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4:16pm Thu 11 Oct 12
kingnotail wrote:Craig David?
St Retford wrote:You could just as easily be talking about Southampton. But what has Southampton given the world? Benny Hill and a boat that sank 100 years ago.
kingnotail wrote:Manchester is nearly always boring. Outside the town centre (which is the ugliest in Europe and has been taken over by men in suits and black shiny shoes who work in 'financial services') it's a featureless, post-industrial wasteland where patches of derelict earth sit next to miles and miles of poverty-stricken 1960s council estate and red brick terraced homes where bored youths gather outside shops called things like 'Booze'n'Fags', all set against a backdrop of constant, half-hearted drizzle. The Smiths could only have come from such a place.
georgetheseventh wrote:Manchester: sometimes violent, sometimes seedy but never, ever, ever boring.
My God..this place is getting worse than Manchester...thank heaven my emigration documents have arrived
In contrast, Southampton is violent, seedy and boring as hell!
I'll get me coat...
Huey
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4:48pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Georgem wrote:FLOGGING is though.
Inform Al wrote:It's an awful deterrent. Have a look at how effective it is in the US, in states which still have a death penalty. It's rubbish. It has no deterrent effect whatsoever.
I was dragged up in a very deprived part of London and punch ups were quite prevailent, but on reaching the age of 18 most of us avoided trouble and if caught up in a punch up made sure the blows were not hard enough to cause real harm. None of us wanted to end up on the end of a lenght of rope. Bring back.hanging. Cheaper than prison and a very effective deterrent.
When have you ever heard of someone who has been flogged for a crime doing it again?
Saves prison space.
If violence is the language these scum understnad, then let's talk.
cantthinkofone
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5:33pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Huey wrote:Absolutely. The sign of a civilised people is answering violence with violence. It's how progress is made.
Georgem wrote:FLOGGING is though.
Inform Al wrote:It's an awful deterrent. Have a look at how effective it is in the US, in states which still have a death penalty. It's rubbish. It has no deterrent effect whatsoever.
I was dragged up in a very deprived part of London and punch ups were quite prevailent, but on reaching the age of 18 most of us avoided trouble and if caught up in a punch up made sure the blows were not hard enough to cause real harm. None of us wanted to end up on the end of a lenght of rope. Bring back.hanging. Cheaper than prison and a very effective deterrent.
When have you ever heard of someone who has been flogged for a crime doing it again?
Saves prison space.
If violence is the language these scum understnad, then let's talk.
cantthinkofone
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5:41pm Thu 11 Oct 12
bernard7
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5:47pm Thu 11 Oct 12
So a man who wrote something on facebook gets 3 years, or 3 lads beat the living daylights out of someone and pretty much get 3 years between them. What is wrong with this country?
IronLady2010
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5:54pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Northam Lady
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5:59pm Thu 11 Oct 12
RadicalEmu
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6:37pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Huey wrote:"When have you ever heard of someone who has been flogged for a crime doing it again?"
Georgem wrote:FLOGGING is though.
Inform Al wrote:It's an awful deterrent. Have a look at how effective it is in the US, in states which still have a death penalty. It's rubbish. It has no deterrent effect whatsoever.
I was dragged up in a very deprived part of London and punch ups were quite prevailent, but on reaching the age of 18 most of us avoided trouble and if caught up in a punch up made sure the blows were not hard enough to cause real harm. None of us wanted to end up on the end of a lenght of rope. Bring back.hanging. Cheaper than prison and a very effective deterrent.
When have you ever heard of someone who has been flogged for a crime doing it again?
Saves prison space.
If violence is the language these scum understnad, then let's talk.
.
The 18th century?
RadicalEmu
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6:41pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Inform Al wrote:I think that if we were to bring back a sadistic and pointless relic from the past, I'd rather see a return of The Crankies.
I was dragged up in a very deprived part of London and punch ups were quite prevailent, but on reaching the age of 18 most of us avoided trouble and if caught up in a punch up made sure the blows were not hard enough to cause real harm. None of us wanted to end up on the end of a lenght of rope. Bring back.hanging. Cheaper than prison and a very effective deterrent.
bigal007
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7:20pm Thu 11 Oct 12
i hope you hang your heads in shame thatman on the floor is lucky to be alive
bigal007
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7:24pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Hdg end mo wrote:that is so true !!
Another reason why not to go into town for a night out. Gone are the days were you could enjoy yourselfs without coming across drunk fuelled young thugs looking for a fight high on cheap booze. Minimum they should have got is 2years
wilson castaway
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8:11pm Thu 11 Oct 12
saintsfanfairoak
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9:08pm Thu 11 Oct 12
How about that for sentencing.......
Next case......
cantthinkofone
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10:08pm Thu 11 Oct 12
bigal007 wrote:A lot of the "lads in afghan" are of just the same cloth as these "lads in Sarfamton". Try going out for a drink in a 'squaddie' town if you'd like proof.
this what it comes to are lads in afgan are putting there lives on the line so we can have are freedom and you get low lifes like this
i hope you hang your heads in shame thatman on the floor is lucky to be alive
kingnotail
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10:46pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Huey wrote:Big fan of Saudi Arabia then?
Georgem wrote:FLOGGING is though.
Inform Al wrote:It's an awful deterrent. Have a look at how effective it is in the US, in states which still have a death penalty. It's rubbish. It has no deterrent effect whatsoever.
I was dragged up in a very deprived part of London and punch ups were quite prevailent, but on reaching the age of 18 most of us avoided trouble and if caught up in a punch up made sure the blows were not hard enough to cause real harm. None of us wanted to end up on the end of a lenght of rope. Bring back.hanging. Cheaper than prison and a very effective deterrent.
When have you ever heard of someone who has been flogged for a crime doing it again?
Saves prison space.
If violence is the language these scum understnad, then let's talk.
AdamSFC
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1:16am Fri 12 Oct 12
Huey wrote:"The cat was waiting for them". Really?? Were you actually ja*king off when you wrote this?
rich the stitch wrote:FLOGGING is the answer.
The reason sentences are so low is because is cost so much to keep someone inside. A friend of mine is inside at the moment, to say he’s enjoying it isn’t true, but it’s not as bad as he thought it would be. TV all day, gets to play his guitar and has made a few mates that he hangs around with. You couldn’t drag him out of the cell when the Olympics were on. This needs to change, unless you have a family/ and or people you will truly miss – although you get to see them once a week, prison should be a place where you are punished, not where your life is effectively just put on hold for a few months.
They are clearly guilty.
They need to understand how much pain and humiliation their actions will cost them.
My god it would stop thugs like this in their tracks if they knew the cat was waiting for them.
Lack of dicispline is ruining this country.
boobooj
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9:40am Fri 12 Oct 12
bigal007 wrote:Actually, there are more than enough decent places for a night out in Southampton, provided you avoid the s**thole that is London Road and the City Centre, which are indeed filled with young morons drunk out of their skulls.
Hdg end mo wrote:that is so true !!
Another reason why not to go into town for a night out. Gone are the days were you could enjoy yourselfs without coming across drunk fuelled young thugs looking for a fight high on cheap booze. Minimum they should have got is 2years
Chars-ill
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2:45pm Fri 12 Oct 12
bigal007
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5:54pm Fri 12 Oct 12
boobooj wrote:where that to !!
bigal007 wrote:Actually, there are more than enough decent places for a night out in Southampton, provided you avoid the s**thole that is London Road and the City Centre, which are indeed filled with young morons drunk out of their skulls.
Hdg end mo wrote:that is so true !!
Another reason why not to go into town for a night out. Gone are the days were you could enjoy yourselfs without coming across drunk fuelled young thugs looking for a fight high on cheap booze. Minimum they should have got is 2years
meltdown says...
5:33am Thu 11 Oct 12
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