SAS sniper jailed

[The-Golden-Vision]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/20410260

Thoughts?

 

[chrissyjack]

I notice last week Cameron refused to get involved. I bet he would if there was an election looming

 

[Bungle]

Good to see they are concentrating on catching the real bad guys. I don't claim to know a lot about the case but going on that article it sounds like a fu**ing joke that he's been banged up.

 

[The-Golden-Vision]

Heard an interesting point made on the radio this morning, 'would people be half as bothered if this was a regular squaddie and not an SAS soldier?'.

 

[Del]

Its the 300 rounds of ammunition I struggle with

 

[EFCNIK]

What a joke. I swear you wouldn't get 18 months for possessing a gun if you were a normal civilian? Or would you?

 

[Del]

What a joke. I swear you wouldn't get 18 months for possessing a gun if you were a normal civilian? Or would you?

My mate got 3 years so yer you would get that at the least

 

[sheeds]

Strangely conflicted here and I don't actually know what I think to be honest . I know a few lads still serving and I'll almost always find myself falling on their side if the argument . Clearly this sentence seems severe given the circumstances taken as reported and I can't help but think that a degree of common sense is required.

However the bloke pleaded guilty in this matter , if I hadn't done something I wouldn't plead guilty whatever the circumstances and I do speak from experience . Also the matter passed almost without note at the time but has certainly gathered support. It's difficult to say 'its awful' when he admitted unlawful possession of the weapon . If the circumstances related by the family are true (and frankly they seem a bit convoluted) then I can't believe any jury would have convicted him for unlawful possession of the weapon but yet he pleaded guilty . It just strikes me as a bit odd. I also agree that if he wasn't a SAS lad the media wouldn't (wrongly) be half as bothered .

All that said for me I can't understand how (if the circumstances are true) the bloke deserves a sentence the same as some little rat from wherever with a firearm in his house deserves .

I think the sentence needs to be looked at & hopefully reduced preferably significantly but there is perhaps something more about this than meets the eye . By that I mean that as reported by the media

 

[bluejock]

Colchester is a piece of piss, he'll be fine.

Think 18 months is a bit long like.

 

[EFCNIK]

My mate got 3 years so yer you would get that at the least

Good grief. Del's in the mafia.

*hides

 

[Summerskin]

YOU'RE ALL UNDER ARREST.

 

[Blue 1]

Don't see what there is to argue about, really.

He pleaded guilty to possessing an unlicensed firearm, didn't he?

 

[Royal Blue Jersey]

Why does he deserve any less than anyone else who illegally possesses a weapon?

 

[Woolly Blue]

The article says "The Glock was then found following a raid". Without knowing why the raid was made, I think it's impossible to judge the rights and wrongs of the sentence.

Don't see what there is to argue about, really.

He pleaded guilty to possessing an unlicensed firearm, didn't he?

His defence would have been that he'd forgotten he had it, so he's saying he pleaded guilty to get a lesser sentence.

 

[sheeds]

The article says "The Glock was then found following a raid". Without knowing why the raid was made, I think it's impossible to judge the rights and wrongs of the sentence.



His defence would have been that he'd forgotten he had it, so he's saying he pleaded guilty to get a lesser sentence.

I think it was a raid for his squaddie housemate over a domestic