Posted on 09/02/2014 6:57:29 AM PDT by dennisw
A man who admitted killing a knife-wielding robber who took his son's iPhone has been jailed for six years.
Derek Grant, 38, confronted Patrick Bradley after the 29-year-old had held up his son Jordan in Greenock on 30 August last year.
During the confrontation, Bradley stabbed Grant in the eye, after which Grant then fatally stabbed him.
Grant was originally charged with murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of culpable homicide.
At the High Court in Livingston judge Lord Boyd noted that Bradley "was a man of violence" and had "10 convictions for assault" prior to his death. Criminal record
He told Grant: "But you, of course you did not know that. What you did know was that earlier that night Patrick Bradley had robbed your son of his mobile phone at knifepoint.
"Had he been caught it seems likely given his record that he would have been prosecuted in this court, the High Court, and on conviction would have received a High Court sentence.
"As it happens you had the means to bring him to justice because the phone had been easily located by the Find My iPhone app."
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No.
Thank god for Oliver Cromwell.
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