Posted on 03/18/2005 7:10:21 AM PST by kralcmot
Edited on 03/18/2005 7:12:51 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Jules Lowe was facing a life sentence for murder but was instead detained under a hospital order after a jury found him not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.
Lowe, 32, did not deny the assault on his 83-year-old father Edward but claimed to have no memory of the attack, according to the Press Association.
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Just damn and OMG.
Note to English homeowners: if you shoot burglars in self-defense you're going to prison, unless you tell the judge that you were sleepwalking.
Let me get this straight:
In England, if you kill an intruder you go to jail. If you murder a family member while "sleepwalking", you are good to go.
I want to take this time to thank God Almighty for allowing me to be American.
I was browsing through a book at Barnes and Noble and came across a funny statement.
In the entire history of counseling and psychotherapy there has never been a recorded case of anyone hearing voices that say "be extra nice to the spouse and kids."
actually, this guy was sleepwalking while drunk out of his mind, and now he gets to recouperate in a mental hospital. the guy managed to sleep thru a brutal beating and found a judge who was asleep to hear the case. of course, the most of the country is also asleep, so there is a lot of empthy for the perpetrator.
Clearly the unemployed layabout 32 year old son came home from the pub drunk out of his mind for the umpteenth time.
83 year old dad, sick and tired of his loser offspring's bullsh!t, gives him a piece of his mind.
Drunken wastoid son proceeds to pummel dad to smithereens and then probably passes out.
He was so knackered that he blacked out and didn't remember what he did, maybe, but it's obvious to anyone with a working brain that the scenario I've outlined is roughly 14.6 billion times more likely than the story the judge bought.
"He was so knackered that he blacked out and didn't remember what he did, maybe, but it's obvious to anyone with a working brain that the scenario I've outlined is roughly 14.6 billion times more likely than the story the judge bought."
It seems that in America, the DA would have had about 10 psychologists saying, "Not possible!".
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