Monday - December 15, 2008

Teenage thug jailed for killing good Samaritan as he gave first aid to attacker’s drunken friend.

It has been a number of days since I posted any sort of crime stories here.  There are so many I think I could easily do a minimum of two a day. Probably more.
I don’t for obvious reasons.  This isn’t an online version of the tabloid press.  But there are things out there that are so damn upsetting and defy any kind of logic that make me want to share.

This isn’t a new story. It’s just a new victim of the same old kind of violence that has this country in it’s grip.

No need for guns here.  The thugs seems quite happy to cause death by beating and stomping and then tell friends all about their manly deed.  If not by foot then by knife. 

The police often look like the Keystone Cops, and the courts belong in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.  I wish they would stop calling the system a Criminal ‘Justice’ System when there hasn’t been any real justice in anyone’s memory.  Just like the USA, the system looks to be geared to protect the rights of the killers and muggers and rapists etc.

Any lawyer who could in good conscience defend this worthless piece of useless crap, should be lynched.  That’s what I believe and I’ll not move from that position.

So .... just how much is a life worth? Apparently not much when it’s the victim.

Good Samaritan Killed Trying To Give Aid

By Luke Salkeld
Last updated at 6:27 PM on 15th December 2008

Joseph Thomas 18, has been jailed after beating to death a father who gave first aid to his friend.

A father was beaten to death as he tried to give first aid to an unconscious youth - by a teenager who police had failed to apprehend over a previous attack.

Nick Baty, 48, was kicked and stamped on after he went to help a young man who was unconscious in the street.

Now it has emerged that his killer, Joseph Thomas, had been involved in another vicious assault which was not properly investigated by the police.

Officers did not arrest the 18-year-old after he carried out the earlier attack just two months before Mr Baty, a father of one, died.

They did not even make a record of the incident for four months, by which time Mr Baty had been fatally injured.

Today, after Thomas was jailed for the killing, and sentenced to a total of ten years for the two attacks, it was revealed that two police officers have received official warnings for failing to arrest him.

Mr Baty’s family said the devoted father might still be alive if the initial case has been dealt with properly.

His former partner Lyn Pembury, mother of Mr Baty’s 13-year-old daughter Katy, said: ‘If they had followed the correct procedures and done their job properly Nick might be here today and my daughter might still have her daddy.’

She added: ‘The police have to be aware of their mistake. They have to bear some responsibility for what happened.’

Commenting on Thomas’ punishment, she said: ‘It’s not even a disruption to his life. He’ll be out in five years - he can have a career and a family.

‘He should have had 15 years or 10 without parole. Nick is dead and his daughter has lost her father.

‘He attacked Nick and then bragged about it. How can someone like that be allowed back on the streets so quickly?’

Mr Baty had rushed to the aid of a boy who collapsed after drinking with other teenagers in a shopping centre car park.

But when he did so, Thomas knocked him to the ground where he repeatedly kicked him and left him in a pool of blood.

Mr Baty went into a coma and died a month later when his life support machine was switched off.

Prosecutor Roger Thomas QC told a court: ‘This was a vicious attack. Mr Baty was only concerned about the welfare of the teenager unconscious on the floor.

‘Mr Baty moved towards the unconscious teenager when, suddenly and without warning, Thomas ran at him from behind shouting: “Leave him alone”.

‘He grabbed him by the shoulder and threw him to ground. Mr Baty’s head struck the ground with a thud but Thomas didn’t leave him - he attacked him as he lay defenceless on the ground.’

The court heard Thomas later boasted to a friend about what he had done.

Nick Baty went into a coma after being brutally attacked. His daughter Katy, right, suffers from nightmares as a result of his death

Thomas, of Bridgend, was cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter at Cardiff Crown Court and sentenced to eight years in prison.

He was also sentenced to two years for the earlier remarkably similar attack which took place near the same shopping centre car park.

In that unprovoked assault 20-year-old Mark Bridgeman was left with fractures to both sides of his jaw and had to have three metal plates and 12 screws inserted into his skull.

Mr Thomas said: ‘Mr Bridgeman was the victim of an unprovoked, unnecessary and quite vicious attack by Thomas. He was repeatedly punched and kicked to the face - and hit while still on the ground.’

He continued: ‘One witness saw the attack. Thomas ran towards Mr Bridgeman, punched him to the face and then wrestled him to the ground.

‘The witness could hear the man screaming and hear the impact of the kicks to the head. He simply couldn’t believe the violence taking place before him.’

The court heard Thomas and another attacker were not arrested immediately by South Wales Police after the attack on Mr Bridgeman.

Mr Thomas said: ‘Unfortunately, the police investigation did not proceed in the manner it should have and is now the subject of an investigation by the Police Complaints Commission.’

The results of that investigation were released after the court was told Mr Baty’s death could have been avoided if Thomas had been arrested earlier.

John Charles Rees QC, defending, said: ‘It may be the offence of manslaughter may not have been committed if Thomas had been arrested when he should have been for the first attack.’

A subsequent inquiry by the Independent Police Complaints Commission led to two police officers being given ‘written warnings for failing to properly deal with this crime’.

It said that the first crime in November 2007 was not recorded until March 2008.

An IPCC spokesman said: ‘The investigating officer concluded that if more positive action had been taken it would have identified the assailants in the November assault much earlier.

‘But the failings identified would not necessarily have had any impact on the subsequent assault upon Mr Baty in January 2008.

South Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Croft said: ‘The investigation into an assault in November 2007 fell short of the standard that the force would expect.’

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Posted by peiper     on 12/15/2008 at 01:33 PM   
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