Tuesday - April 15, 2008

SO, THIS BLIND(?) SOB KILLS AND GETS LIFE BUT REALLY IT’S 13 YEARS. ?

I admit I am not the sharpest thorn on the rose bush but ... I just don’t understand this. Does anyone else have a problem with this.
If he’s been sentenced to life, where the hell does the 13 years come in as it’s described here? And is that all a life is worth? Fergit the last question. We all know the answer to that one based on cases on both sides of the Atlantic.

Blind man killed fiancée for not wearing ringBy Sophie Borland
Last Updated: 7:27am BST 15/04/2008

A blind man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his fiancée because she was not wearing her engagement ring.

Bryan Monaghan was sentenced to 13 years in prison
Bryan Monaghan, 55, stabbed Nicola Bissett, a mother-of-two, at her home in Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, following an argument last October.

The court heard how Monaghan, who is registered blind, had earlier become “very angry” after realising that his fiancée was not wearing the ring he had given her.

He stabbed her with a knife while she was lying in bed which severed an artery and as a result of the wound she died.

Monaghan, who is from Largs, in Ayrshire, Scotland, was arrested and charged the day after the murder after he rang his children and told them what he had done and they got in touch with the police.

He pleaded not guilty to murder but after ten hours and 53 minutes of deliberations the jury at Carlisle Crown Court reached a unanimous guilty verdict yesterday.

Monaghan, who was wearing dark glasses and carrying a white stick, collapsed into his seat and started to weep with his head in his hands when the verdict was read out.

(no doubt feeling pretty damn sorry for his own sorry, miserable ass)

The court heard how Monaghan had travelled down to Carlisle by train to visit Miss Bissett but the two had begun arguing after a trip to the pub.

Mr Meadowcroft, QC, prosecuting, said: “The argument developed and blew up, and the defendant became very angry.

“He then committed the act. When she was lying in the bed, the defendant picked up a pair of scissors or a knife and plunged it into her neck to a depth of 4.5 inches.

“This severed an artery and as a result of that wound, she died.”

After killing his fiancée, Monaghan cut his own wrists before writing letters to his fiancée’s two children and his own children telling them what he had done, the court heard.

(he cut his wrists but was still able to write letters? Real serious about killing himself, wasn’t he.)

The next morning he drove away from the house in Miss Bissett’s car, a Honda Jazz, but crashed it in a country lane close by.

Ironically he was found by his fiancée’s former husband, Christopher Bulloch, who drove him back to the house and left him at the front door, none the wiser to the murder.

After Monaghan told his children what he had done, paramedics were called to the house and Miss Bissett was pronounced dead.

Monaghan was later arrested and charged with her murder and he initially confessed to his act in a police interview.

Passing sentence, Mr Justice Irwin QC told Monaghan: “You killed the warm, kind and attractive woman who went out of her way to show you affection.

“She opened up her heart and her home and you murdered her.

“It was a terrible day for Nicola Bissett and her family, and there is only one sentence for murder and that is life in prison.

“It seems to me that you are a danger to any woman with whom you are involved.”

Monaghan was sentenced to 13 years in prison after which it will be decided whether he is fit to be released.

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