In The Courts

[Fagan_ODowd]

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0418/1377697-wikipedia-judges/

Study by judge and judicial assistants finds that there is no Wikipedia effect in Irish judgments

[artfoley]

@Fagan_ODowd

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0418/1377697-wikipedia-judges/

Study by judge and judicial assistants finds that there is no Wikipedia effect in Irish judgments

so much for nemo iudex!

[StoneCold]

Surprised this case hadn’t got more coverage, given the salacious nature of it.

Dublin man who hired hitman to kill couple having ‘online affair’ with his...

[Tim_Riggins]

Boy (13) convicted of sexually assaulting young woman he followed as she...

How do you rehabilitate someone clearly twisted?

[flattythehurdler]

With a pool ball in a sock.

[Corksfinedtboy]

They’re all feckin unhinged

[Corksfinedtboy]

Sod of turf in the FCA

[Ambrose_McNulty]

Please log in the appropriate thread

Cork weirdo/sicko thread

Danny la Rue

[FatChops]

Take him up to the shed. Jump leads, wire brush and a bucket of water.

[artfoley]

@Rocko

Story on the radio this morning about a man who raped his 14 year-old sister-in-law a number of times over a number of months. He would normally have been sentenced to 7 years in prison according to the judge, but because he has 2 autistic children the judge has decided it would be too disruptive to imprison him so he has received no custodial sentence.

Seems a very strange and unique logic to apply to this case. One would think that the majority of people who come before the courts for custodial sentences have some sort of family issues that might not be best helped by their incarceration. The judge referred to his autistic children as “mitigating circumstances” which is warped logic to me. They may be factors in terms of sentencing (rightly or wrongly) but they’re hardly factors that change the crime or its effects on the victim. The victim is furious with the sentence and understandably so.

uh eogh

Trial Date Set For Irish Celebrity Accused Of Defilement (todayfm.com)

[Fagan_ODowd]

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2023/0421/1378308-thomas-mckenna-court/

[flattythehurdler]

Should be 30 minimum imo.

[myboyblue]

@artfoley

@Rocko

Story on the radio this morning about a man who raped his 14 year-old sister-in-law a number of times over a number of months. He would normally have been sentenced to 7 years in prison according to the judge, but because he has 2 autistic children the judge has decided it would be too disruptive to imprison him so he has received no custodial sentence.

Seems a very strange and unique logic to apply to this case. One would think that the majority of people who come before the courts for custodial sentences have some sort of family issues that might not be best helped by their incarceration. The judge referred to his autistic children as “mitigating circumstances” which is warped logic to me. They may be factors in terms of sentencing (rightly or wrongly) but they’re hardly factors that change the crime or its effects on the victim. The victim is furious with the sentence and understandably so.

uh eogh

Trial Date Set For Irish Celebrity Accused Of Defilement (todayfm.com)

Took me a long time to figure out what @artfoley’s link had to do with @rocko’s post.

[anon67715551]

“If it worked, fine, if not go on to the next one."

43k pictures and 8k short videos. This fucker was an absolutely depraved animal.
The club weren’t exempt from blame either, you’d imagine someone knew about him.

[myboyblue]

Crossmaglen has been shown to be a thundering disgrace of a club tbf. Incredible what was involved there.

[Thomas_Brady]

Save me the time…

[myboyblue]

Art misquoted, but the link anyway related to that Irish DJ who has come up here from time to time.

[Thomas_Brady]

Ah … that’s who i thought it was alright. I was thinking the plaintiff was one of the autistic kids from the first episode

[myboyblue]

It was unnecessarily confusing alright.

[StoneCold]

How does a man get away with that sort of thing in that part of the country for 30 years, given the ‘characters’ in the area?