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    Sense from a judge

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...al/7688716.stm

    A bogus workman who was beaten up in prison has been told "you deserve anything you receive" by a sheriff.

    Eddie Newlands, 37, from Perth, was sent to jail for 10 months on Thursday after conning a 91-year-old woman out of £5,500 of her savings.

    Perth Sheriff Court heard he had been "significantly assaulted" twice in custody by inmates angry at his crime.

    Sheriff Margaret Gimblett said she had no sympathy and described what he had done to the pensioner as "despicable."
    Cooking doesn't get tougher than this.

    #2
    Originally posted by TheBigYinJames View Post
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...al/7688716.stm

    A bogus workman who was beaten up in prison has been told "you deserve anything you receive" by a sheriff.

    Eddie Newlands, 37, from Perth, was sent to jail for 10 months on Thursday after conning a 91-year-old woman out of £5,500 of her savings.

    Perth Sheriff Court heard he had been "significantly assaulted" twice in custody by inmates angry at his crime.

    Sheriff Margaret Gimblett said she had no sympathy and described what he had done to the pensioner as "despicable."
    Absolutley.

    Conning old ladies out of their savings is the government's job, surely.

    You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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      #3
      Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
      Absolutley.

      Conning old ladies out of their savings is the government's job, surely.
      Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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        #4
        Originally posted by TheBigYinJames View Post
        http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...al/7688716.stm

        A bogus workman who was beaten up in prison has been told "you deserve anything you receive" by a sheriff.

        Eddie Newlands, 37, from Perth, was sent to jail for 10 months on Thursday after conning a 91-year-old woman out of £5,500 of her savings.

        Perth Sheriff Court heard he had been "significantly assaulted" twice in custody by inmates angry at his crime.

        Sheriff Margaret Gimblett said she had no sympathy and described what he had done to the pensioner as "despicable."
        I wonder what the people who beat him up were in for? Presumably less morally reprehensible (in their eyes) crimes like burglary?

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          #5
          Hanging's too good for them.
          Cut off his arms.
          Bored.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post
            I wonder what the people who beat him up were in for? Presumably less morally reprehensible (in their eyes) crimes like burglary?
            They only murdered their own.
            Cooking doesn't get tougher than this.

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              #7
              Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
              Absolutley.

              Conning old ladies out of their savings is the government's job, surely.

              Not only their savings, but also their bank shares and dividends.

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                #8
                Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
                Absolutley.

                Conning old ladies out of their savings is the government's job, surely.


                Banks and Government's

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by TheBigYinJames View Post
                  They only murdered their own.

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