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  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Yeah - the sex toy was just way OTT.
  • jamespir
    jamespir Posts: 21,456 Forumite
    just wrong cant believe how evil some people can be
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  • poppysarah
    poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
    Sounds utterly bizarre and horrid.

    He finally resorted to stabbing himself five times, puncturing a lung, leading his captors to eventually call for an ambulance to the house in Crawley, West Sussex


    Sounds a bit stranger still though.
  • hethmar
    hethmar Posts: 10,678 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver!
    Society gets sicker ............
  • IronWolf
    IronWolf Posts: 6,445 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    A total of 51 years between them? I read about a guy in the US that broke into some peoples homes and tortured them. He got 500 years.
    Faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
  • tonycottee
    tonycottee Posts: 1,332 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    IronWolf wrote: »
    A total of 51 years between them? I read about a guy in the US that broke into some peoples homes and tortured them. He got 500 years.

    But when does anybody serve their full sentence? He'll be out in 450.
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    IronWolf wrote: »
    A total of 51 years between them? I read about a guy in the US that broke into some peoples homes and tortured them. He got 500 years.

    And automatically eligible for release in half that time. Basically they'll be unlucky to serve a sentence longer than five years apiece.

    Yet Charlie Gilmour will serve roughly a year for swinging off of the Cenotaph.

    Swinging off the Cenotaph, one fifth as bad as imprisoning and horribly torturing someone.

    This has got to change, sentencing in this country is a sick and twisted joke.
  • Matt1977
    Matt1977 Posts: 300 Forumite
    Nasty. :( I hope that the perpetrators spend the majority of their relatively short jail time fighting off the amourous advances of their fellow prison mates...
    Generation Rent
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    Matt1977 wrote: »
    Nasty. :( I hope that the perpetrators spend the majority of their relatively short jail time fighting off the amourous advances of their fellow prison mates...

    Booty.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ-TVhKO7Vc
  • mustrum_ridcully
    mustrum_ridcully Posts: 1,453 Forumite
    I wonder if this could have happened in Scotland with the fit and proper person tests (I assume the criminal scumbags here either acting on behalf of the LL and/or one of them was indeed the LL)?

    For those who don't know the test involves examining the following criteria (I've highlighted the ones that might have flagged-up some sort of warning signs with regards to this case).

    - Information showing that the landlord has committed fraud, or violent or drug related offences.
    - Evidence of discrimination in any business activity.
    - Information showing that they have broken any other laws in relation to housing.
    - Information showing that they are a bad landlord, or that they have been a bad landlord in the past.
    - Antisocial behaviour problems in any properties the landlord rents out or is responsible for.
    - If the landlord has an agreement with a letting agent (or anyone else who's acting on their behalf in letting the property), that the terms of that agreement are adequate.
    - Anything else which is relevant.
    "One thing that is different, and has changed here, is the self-absorption, not just greed. Everybody is in a hurry now and there is a 'the rules don't apply to me' sort of thing." - Bill Bryson
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