About Time

[The Year Of The Fox]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20547557

[KingPowerLCFC1884]

:appl:

it was a joke to begin with, our men risk their lifes and this is how we treat them? everyone who helped send him down for 18 months in the first place need to have a good hard look at themselves. he is a hero, not a villain.

[Leicfox]

Hope he has a great Christmas.

Joke to begin with.

[Jon the Hat]

:appl:

it was a joke to begin with, our men risk their lifes and this is how we treat them? everyone who helped send him down for 18 months in the first place need to have a good hard look at themselves. he is a hero, not a villain.

He did have a Glock 9mm and ammo in his house though.

[1964FOX]

Yes he had a gun and ammo so was quilty of illegal possession of a firearm but had no intent to use for criminal purposes, a fine and reprimand would have been sufficient. Glad to see justice has been done.

[KingPowerLCFC1884]

Yes he had a gun and ammo so was quilty of illegal possession of a firearm but had no intent to use for criminal purposes, a fine and reprimand would have been sufficient. Glad to see justice has been done.

agree with this.

[Guest]

time is a human construct - oh sorry the thread title was misleading.

[definitely not finners]

:appl:

it was a joke to begin with, our men risk their lifes and this is how we treat them? everyone who helped send him down for 18 months in the first place need to have a good hard look at themselves. he is a hero, not a villain.

He broke the law and using forgetting as an excuse is pretty piss weak. A guy with all of his experience should know better. He's not being persecuted for something he dish do, the "people who sent him down" were doing their jobs and he put them in that position.

I don't think he deserves to go to prison for q long time but making it out to be a travesty that he was sentenced is over the top.

[James.]

A guy with all of his experience should know better.

I think the brain damage had something to do with that though...

[DB11]

It was just reduced wasn't it? So wasn't actually found not guilty?

[1964FOX]

There are lots of firearms in the houses of ex service men around the country, it's a regular occurrence for them to be handed in to the cops when relatives sort out the houses of those who have passed away. These being used for crime is almost unheard of.

[act smiley]

It was just reduced wasn't it? So wasn't actually found not guilty?

Well, yes - he did have the gun, after all.

Suspended sentence is probably the correct outcome - he's not exactly a risk to society from the sounds of it, so it doesn't sound like there's much point in locking the guy up.

[Captain...]

Well, yes - he did have the gun, after all.

Suspended sentence is probably the correct outcome - he's not exactly a risk to society from the sounds of it, so it doesn't sound like there's much point in locking the guy up.

Exactly, he did break the law, and as not finners said, forgetting about something is not an excuse, but the circumstances should have lead to a bit of common sense in the sentencing.

Although saying that, was the original sentence the minimum sentence for that crime? Or could the original judge have given him a suspended sentence, it is possible the original judge had his hands tied over sentencing, and it needed an appeal judge to sentence outside the minimum.

[Guest]

I think the brain damage had something to do with that though...

yeah right!

[notnow john]

Yes, he is a hero,and if he brought the gun back momento I can understand that.

It's the three hundred rounds of ammunition that would concern me.

[Rincewind]

300 rounds? That's more than James Bond has in his top pocket when he goes about his business of killing the baddies.