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Pensioner faces 12 month pub ban
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:17 am
by spot
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.
Pensioner faces 12 month pub ban
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:33 am
by spot
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.
Pensioner faces 12 month pub ban
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:43 am
by Chezzie
Poor bugger has dementia and will need 24 hour care before long. A prison sentence would be pointless.
Pensioner faces 12 month pub ban
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:52 am
by spot
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.