He swerved and hit him he did not mean to hit him and certainly didn't wish to kill him.

And he deserves a proper 2nd chance, the opportunity when he gets out to change his life and help others in the same position

Yes but he did

this case has been played out in the news papers, so justice will be seen to be done.
He never set out to kill anyone and the police officer put himself in danger to stop a car thief.
He deserved to serve a prison sentence but not for that amount of time.

the copper wasn't targeted though so the sentence is far to severe.

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:clap1::clap1::clap1: IF he had got time at all.

Aaah - The Laws of Cause and Effect.

If he had not freely arrogantly, and contemptuously, elected to steal someone else's car, then this tragedy would not have happened and a young man would not have had his precious life so cruelly and prematurely ended, a grief stricken young wife would not now be a widow with an uncertain future, and those poor young children would not have lost their daddy and have had their lives decimated.

The young cop might have been a little reckless in the way he chose to try to stop this car thief - but only because it was naive of him to expect someone so contemptuous of the law to actually stop - and the young cop was, after all, only trying to carry out the duties which we taxpayers pay him to do on our behalf.

I have zilch sympathy for the culprit because all my sympathy is for the victim and his wretched family, and if this sentence makes just one would be car thief/boy racer stop and think and desist, then it will have served its dual purpose as both punishment AND deterrent.

R.I.P to the cop and my deepest sympathy to his family.

That's what he said. But you don't aim a car at a person without the knowledge you're probably going to kill them.

Maybe you should save your tears for the little children of the man he killed who will now grow up without a father.

Also, I don't see any actual evidence that the sentence handed out was more because the victim was a policeman. If a sentence is handed out for a crime then precedent would dictate that the next time the same crime was committed the sentence would be the same regardless of who was killed.

Maybe you're in charge of some information not presented in court.

But I doubt it.

A lot of people guilty of manslaughter get less then ten years so why should this boy get double?

He must have had a really good brief to get manslaughter and not murder, which in my view, is what it was and I'm sure that's what the prosecution would have pushed for if all the evidence available has been presented in court, which it wasn't. Secondly, precedent doesn't apply to all manslaughter cases, it applies to cases which are alike in every detail. If someone had committed exactly the same crime in exactly the same way with exactly the same consequences except the victim wasn't a policeman, then the sentence would have to be the same under the law of precedent. He got twenty years because that's what he deserved at the very least.

And really, I'm at a loss that anyone is feeling any kind of sympathy for this waste of skin and organs. No sympathy for the family of the copper who was out there doing his job? Shame.

Also, you refer to him as a boy. He is a man above the age of majority, legally able to smoke, drink, get married, die in battle.... and serve a sentence he deserved.

It wasn't murder he didn't plan to kill him it's even possible he wouldn't have saw him until it's too late because it was the dark.

I feel sorry for him because he was never given a chance at life he was always set up to fail just because I feel sorry for this boy doesn't mean I don't have sympathy for the widowed wife and kids who lost their dad.

Actually he swerved right then left, lining himself up for the hit so I disagree that he didn't see him. I've seen the footage and although it's rather graining I can see the copper quite clearly. If he couldn't see him perhaps he's partially sighted and shouldn't have been driving anyway. What's nmore he said "watch this" before he hit the copper. It was not admissible in court, I don't know the reason why... but if it had been he could be serving life with no parole, which I think he deserves.

Anyhoo... that all aside... hey Adam :-)

ohh if that was the case then he should have been charged with murder not manslaughter imo

Congratulations on understanding what I wrote. I've got a cold... which accounts for any typos, obviously.

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I don't like watching those types of videos for myself :/

Hey Livia :wavey:

I think we will have to agree to disagree on this maybe I just like to see the best in people..

I don't follow this case but from what I know I expected him to be charged with murder.

manslaughter not murder.