Friday - February 12, 2010

I guess we can score one for the good guys except the gremlin is still breathing. Damn!

Another one of those articles that caught my eye and so I’m posting it before the things I had planned.

Here come de judge who in this case tells the AG, you got it wrong lady.
She, Baroness Scotland (Scotland is her real name, it’s not the country) wanted to prosecute persecute the homeowner and hand down a stiffer jail term.
Here’s a little background on her just so you’ll know who the heck is being referred to here.
Anyway, score one for the good guy although I’m sorry they managed to save the gremlin’s life as it’s useless and worthless anyway.

Attorney General Baroness Scotland has seen her career in law and politics thrown into the spotlight by her admission that she mistakenly employed an illegal immigrant as a housekeeper.

She has been fined £5,000 for breaking laws brought in when she was a Home Office minister.
The tenth of 12 children, she was born Patricia Scotland on the Caribbean island of Dominica in 1955. Her family moved to England, when she was three years old.

Maybe just maybe and time alone will tell, the tide may be turning in favor of the law abiding homeowner.  Of course, when you still have AGs like this fat assed Baroness Scotland that’s still gonna be an uphill climb.  Scandal around her (illegal immigrant she hired) has died down.  She was fined but is still in office.
You or I would be in jail most likely but apparently there are same laws but different punishments depending on who you are. 
Here’s part of the article. The rest at the link below as always.  (well, almost always)

Oh btw ... the judges name?  It’s really Judge. Kid you not.  Judge, Igor Judge.

Decent middle-aged man’ spared jail after stabbing teenager who attacked him in his own home

By Daily Mail Reporter

A ‘mild-natured’ middle-aged man who stabbed a teenager in the throat after being attacked by the axe-wielding youth in his own home, has been spared jail by the nation’s most senior judge.

Kenneth Blight, 51, who left 19-year-old Andrew Nelson with life-threatening injuries after the drink and drug-fuelled teenager attacked him with the axe, was described today by Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice, as ‘a decent middle-aged man in his own home, goaded beyond endurance’. 

Blight was handed a two-year suspended sentence by a judge at Teesside Crown Court on October 19 last year after pleading guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC, asked London’s Appeal Court to put him behind bars, because she felt the sentence was ‘unduly lenient’.

But her application has now been refused by Lord Judge who called the decision to let Blight walk free ‘humane and justifiably merciful’.

Blight of Thornaby, Teesside, had rowed with Mr Nelson - the son of his partner - over his attempt to use the family home as a hideaway from local drug dealers, who were hunting him for a debt, said the judge, sitting with Mr Justice Irwin and Mr Justice Penry Davey. 

He confronted the teenager after the youth had been drinking and smoking cannabis at Blight’s home on May 30 last year, telling him that he wanted him out if he wasn’t going to pay off the debt, as he didn’t want drug dealers paying threatening visits to his door.

Mr Nelson’s reaction was to snatch up an axe that Blight had loaned him for a camping trip and to strike him twice on the leg with the blunt side, causing the older man ‘massive bruising’. 

SOURCE

Posted by peiper     on 02/12/2010 at 09:29 AM   
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