Why should the monster who killed my son be freed early?

[PapaSkin]

Eleven years after the brutal murder of her son Sean Muse, Margaret Muse still feels devastated by his death.Sean was only 28 in August 1995 when he was kicked and stamped to death outside a Southampton social club by Darren Stickland.The brutality of the killing shocked the city.Stickland was jailed ten years ago - but now the Muse family have been shattered by a judge's decision to reduce Stickland's sentence from 15 to 13 years.Margaret said: "In my view life should mean life. The bottom line is that he murdered my son in cold blood and now he could be set free to live the rest of his life, but my Sean can't be brought back."Stickland is only 45 - he can come out of jail and still have time left to live a good life. It is just wrong to release him early - it would be a huge insult to me and my family.READ MORE...

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[PUNISHER]

I've got mixed feelings about these things. On one hand I sympathize for the families who lost their loved ones. On the other hand, it was a street fight/beating there was alcohol involved and the guy probably didn't mean to kill the victim. I think 15 years is long enough, so is 13.

Still very sad though.

[Tokyohoon]

Hold up - if you read the story, the "victim" had earlier glassed a member of the guy's family, after which Stickland got involved. Just in case you're not familiar with the term, that's when you ram a pint glass into someone's face rim first (preferably getting the chin into the inside of the glass as you swing upwards) to cause gross facial disfigurement at a minimum, and you can quite easily kill someone doing it.

Stickland must have had a shite lawyer, even if he WAS a known NF member - someone did that to my brother or one of my cousins, I'd be all over them like ugly on ape, and probably beat them to death just like Stickland did. Even in Japan that would be legally defensible.

[PUNISHER]

Hold up - if you read the story, the "victim" had earlier glassed a member of the guy's family, after which Stickland got involved. Just in case you're not familiar with the term, that's when you ram a pint glass into someone's face rim first (preferably getting the chin into the inside of the glass as you swing upwards) to cause gross facial disfigurement at a minimum, and you can quite easily kill someone doing it.

Stickland must have had a shite lawyer, even if he WAS a known NF member - someone did that to my brother or one of my cousins, I'd be all over them like ugly on ape, and probably beat them to death just like Stickland did. Even in Japan that would be legally defensible.
I just thought that meant he'd smashed him with a glass. Even still, he deserved a beating. To bad he died though.

edit- Forget family, I'd wreck someone for doing that to a mere aquaintance.

[Skinheadrunk]

I just thought that meant he'd smashed him with a glass. Even still, he deserved a beating. To bad he died though.

edit- Forget family, I'd wreck someone for doing that to a mere aquaintance.

So would I.

But that being said, if somebody stomped my buddy to death, regardless of the circumstances (except maybe in in defense of their OWN person), I'd be waiting not too far from jail for them to get out. And if I can justify that desire for revenge, then I have to justify someone else's desire for revenge, even if their revenge comes in the form of another two years locked up, instead blunt force trauma to the knees.

[Loathe]

7-800 meters, decent bolt action with optics.

[Skinheadrunk]

I think if I was really bent on revenge I'd want him to know who and why first. Maybe send him a little note telling him to think like a Buck in deer season when he gets out if you really wanted to introduce him to the long gun.

[Loathe]

I think if I was really bent on revenge I'd want him to know who and why first. Maybe send him a little note telling him to think like a Buck in deer season when he gets out if you really wanted to introduce him to the long gun.

Nah man, thats evidence.