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Originally Posted by Adam.
A lot of people guilty of manslaughter get less then ten years so why should this boy get double?
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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.