Posted on 04/26/2023 12:10:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man who tried to kill a teenage girl who he hunted her “like an animal” with a compound bow and arrow in an Aldi supermarket will spend the next 10 years and six months in jail.
Benjamin Jeremy Bourke, 28, pleaded guilty in Brisbane Supreme Court of Australia on Wednesday to the attempted murder of the teenage girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons at an Aldi shopping center in Booval, west of Brisbane, in September 2020.
Crown Prosecutor Matt Le Grand told the court Bourke had armed himself with the compound bow, two knives and three small sledge hammers when he left his Bundamba home on September 20, 2020.
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10 years? Australia is a savage country.
What the hey?
He should’ve been sentenced to death!
Aldis are small stores. Not very sporting of him.
Just drop him off in the interior. He’ll never be herd of again.
I don’t think attempted murder should receive a lesser sentence. Just because you didn’t happen to succeed doesn’t make you any less a threat to society.
They need more gun bans. That will be the ticket.
Australia has forbidden the death penalty since 1973, but in reality I think it’s been much longer since they executed anyone. They won’t even extradite someone who will be executed elsewhere. Some wife murderer was in Australia, and they refused to send him back to Alabama until Alabama promised he couldn’t get executed.
Why three sledgehammers? Was he expecting to grow an extra arm along the way?
Exactly. It's like giving this guy a license to try again once he gets out.
If I go to rob a bank and fail to get away with the cash, do I get a lesser sentence because I botched the robbery?
Over the years, I’ve had the typical regrets about my own parenting.
Was I too strict?
Was I too lenient?
Turns out I was a genius and my kids have way above average coping skills.
That’s great! Not sure how it relates to this thread.
He looks like your classic Incel-Nerd out for ‘revenge’, ready to ‘set the record straight!”, but against a stranger. He resembles ‘Screech’ from Save By The Bell.
WTF
What’s wrong with people these days..?!
demonic
That poor girl is going to have nightmares forever. I’m glad she survived.
You can tell he’s a psycho just by the look on his face. Lock him up and throw away the key.
That’s great! Not sure how it relates to this thread.
The article infers this all started when he got in a fight with his roommate and decided to commit suicide by cop by hunting a teenage girl in an ALDI.
Exactly. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
What people don't realize is that the reason Jesus said that hatred = murder and lust = adultery, is that it's just a matter of self-control whether the impulses are acted on or not.
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