Man who murders his wife is sentenced to a ban from his local pub as punishment

[britty 1]

This judge should take a bottle of pills and slip quietly away....what a useless leftwing piece of flesh he is.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgo...est/7540994.stm

[Amby 490]

link didn't work for me

[Sassy1natl 0]

linky no worky

[britty 1]

post in full:

A judge has told a Glasgow pensioner that stopping him going to the pub was a "more meaningful" sentence than a prison term for killing his wife.

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.

Lord Matthews said Flaherty's dementia made him unsuited to prison.

He imposed a year-long restriction of liberty order which will keep him inside his home during opening hours.

The pensioner will be tagged and banned from leaving his home in the city's Drygate area between 1100 and 2300 BST after being found guilty of culpable homicide.

At the High Court in Glasgow, Lord Matthews told Flaherty that under normal circumstances he would have been given a prison sentence in double figures.

He said: "I have read and considered a number of reports from experts. It is plain to me that if I were to impose that sort of sentence you would be released in a very short time because prison would not be able to cope with your condition.

The report prepared for the court paints a picture of a man in significant physical and mental decline

Donald MacLeod

Defence QC

"Sentencing you would just be a token gesture. I am anxious to impose a sentence that restricts your liberty.

"You still go to the pub where you went with your wife. That must annoy her relatives.

"Not being able to go there will be a more meaningful disposal than a prison sentence which will not last long."

During the trial the jury heard that Flaherty said he had no recollection of the moment he throttled his wife of 52 years in April last year.

When asked who killed her, he said: "It must have been me. There are no ghosts running about the house who would have done that."

Defence QC Donald MacLeod said: "The report prepared for the court paints a picture of a man in significant physical and mental decline.

"There is a clear diagnosis of dementia setting in. It is a progressive condition and ultimately he will need 24-hour care.

"I am deeply conscious there has been a death here, but this man is very unwell.

"He was always willing to plead guilty to culpable homicide, but this was flatly rejected by the Crown and that is why a trial was necessary."

[IAMX 3,055]

The link appeared screwed up, britty, just copy/paste everything inside these code tags where you put the link in your OP:

[url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7540994.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7540994.stm[/url]

[Nagishkaw 510]

#######????

[IAMX 3,055]

Btw, I have the perfect song as a theme for this article:

Edited August 5, 2008 by SRVT

[Scott & Lai 12]

No more booze for you, that'll teach you!

[Niels Bohr 72]

Yeah. #######. The UK is ridiculous! Time for mail-order brides.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Here's the crux of the legal argument - I'm not sure what's "left-wing" about it.

At the High Court in Glasgow, Lord Matthews told Flaherty that under normal circumstances he would have been given a prison sentence in double figures.

He said: "I have read and considered a number of reports from experts. It is plain to me that if I were to impose that sort of sentence you would be released in a very short time because prison would not be able to cope with your condition.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

So this is really about liberalism's cancerous spread into the mind of this judge?

[Hannah+Vito 0]

#######?

[Sassy1natl 0]

So this is really about liberalism's cancerous spread into the mind of this judge?

"Commie Cancerous Spread" wonder if that explains these headaches I have been having?

[Ban Hammer 14,286]

this just in - the elderly in britain now realize they have nothing to lose.