wonderful mitigation statements of our times

[tsubaki]

or "a barrister earns his fee":

Jodie Barnes's barrister, Graham Arnold, said: "There was no intention to kill. It is distressing that he was left to die in the way that he was, but there was no attempt to finish him off."

unsurprisingly, his client got life with a minimum term of 24 years.

 

[bluejock]

Hahahaha.

Fantastic.

 

[degsy]

I nipped over into the field to have a p*ss your honour and the sheep just backed on to me

 

[tommye]

"it was chelsea"

 

[BlueLlama]

I'm not racist, it's Uruguayan culture

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

My Client made a simple request for a bit of Phil Collins

 

[eagleowl]

Mitigation M'Lud

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Julian Farley, defending Gibbons, told Macclesfield magistrates court: ‘This case is extraordinary and perhaps an indictment of the benefits system.
‘Her fraudulent behaviour was in effect saving the Government money. It is the most ridiculous mitigation I have ever had to bring before a court – quite ridiculous.’