Pensioner faces 12 month pub ban

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Pensioner faces 12 month pub ban

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Who says British courts don't deal severely with criminals? This article proves beyond doubt that they can when they try hard.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.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/gla ... 540994.stm

He's been ordered to stay at home during pub opening hours for the next year.
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jimbo;941068 wrote: oh no thats too cruel :DThe whole of North America's gone dead silent for a minute as they try to absorb how totally foreign that article is.
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Poor bugger has dementia and will need 24 hour care before long. A prison sentence would be pointless.
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Chezzie;941088 wrote: Poor bugger has dementia and will need 24 hour care before long. A prison sentence would be pointless.


That's exactly what they said about Ernest Saunders too, of course. After they let him out early because of it he's business-consultanted ever since, the dog.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
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Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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