barristers

[spider]

"But both defendants' barristers objected to the evidence being admitted at all."

How do these people sleep at night?

How do you stand up in court and in all seriousness object to evidence like this being presented?

Then people wonder why there's no confidence in the legal system.

I hope Mr Keeble and Mr Marston go away for a couple of decades - I doubt it though.

[andy at handiwork]

It is a barristers duty to do the best they can for their client, irrespective of their own or other people's opinion of the accused.

[spider]

Yes you are right.

I've calmed down now.

I was a bit angry after I read the item.

I mustn't let reading the news upset me like this.

[andy at handiwork]

I quite understand. But it is reactions to events like this that show how important it is for a barrister to remain immune from emotion. After all, innocent people, for instance, can be charged with horrendous crimes which would merit severe punishment if the less temperate amongst us had their way and without a fair trial.

[RoddersUK]

It is also their duty to back the fuck off when evidence of guilt is presented. All of the scum will lie through their teeth to their brief telling them how innocent they are. As long as they don't tell the money grubbing bastard lawyer that they did it he will try his utmost to get his client off the charge.
Justice in this country is a farce, as this and other cases have shown.
At least it seems a proper judge was presiding.

[spider]

What really gets my goat about cases like this is they got away with Manslaughter.

The victim was 87 years old, they were fit 24 / 26 years old. They gave him a really good beating injuring his arm and fracturing his pelvis.

He died from his injuries - at that age you don't recover.

How is that not murder?

They will now get a fixed term sentence and serve only half of that.

I think that's another reason why justice is a farce in this country.