licenced cab drivers

[heatingman]

listening to LBC this evening, it appears the nutter who murdered his wife and pleaded insanity (temp) has been passed unfit to be a cabbie and is now using our legal system to contest it at the high court.
I definitely say this guy should not under any conditions be allowed to drive a cab. the checks and balances are put in place to protect us, if they let him through because of a technicality with spent conviction laws it will make us the laughing stock of the civilised world, and do irreparable damage to the credibility of the licenced cabbies/trade.

rant over.

 

[Donkmeister]

I've always wondered what constitutes "temporary insanity"... How insane do you have to be before it becomes a defence, and how temporary does it have to be so you aren't locked away in the loonie-bin?

I don't doubt such a condition exists, but in all the cases you see in the news, "temporary insanity" appears to be a euphemism for "really cheesed off with someone".

If killing someone can be regarded as temporary insanity, surely less drastic actions can also be attributed to temporary insanity...

"Sorry m'lud, I bottled him because he looked at me just at the moment I went temporarily insane"

"Sorry m'lud, I was walking into the shop when I went temporarily insane and robbed it."

"Sorry m'lud, I was driving within the speed limit, then I went temporarily insane and did 120 up the high-street."

At what point DID people stop taking responsibility for their own crimes?

 

[lifesagasman]

i fairly recently knew a woman who stabbed her husband 72 times. (just making sure...) she went down the temp. insanity route and after trial was released back into the real world.
i could have almost believed it, except for one thing. halfway through the slaughter the knife broke inide his chest. she was so 'insane', she went to the knife drawer and got out another one and carried on.
wouldn't you think 30 or 40 perforations were enough?
a good barrister and off you go.

 

[Donkmeister]

Nasty business gasman.

Hoping it's not something too personal for you (I don't want to make light of a bad situation), I wonder if someone who is only "temporarily" insane, would have been remourseful enough that she would have felt a custodial sentence to be what she deserved, and thus pleaded guilty?

People go completely off the rails for things that aren't their fault - train-drivers when someone jumps off a bridge for example.

So, if someone goes temporarily insane enough to stab someone any number of times and then tries to get off, that says to me that they are of sound enough mind to look after self interests. Therefore, they are either:

a) don't understand what they did was wrong and thus a danger to be locked away (insane)
b) don't care what they did was wrong, and thus a danger to be locked away (sane, but a proper s**t).

 

[lifesagasman]

it was an aquaintance, not a personal friend. from my knowledge of events, it was premeditated, but the ferocity of the attack was staggering. there should be no way that a verdict should have been returned which allowed her to walk free, but that's how our legal system works.

i forgot to mention. she also started cutting him up into pieces and putting him in the freezer.

 

[joinerjohn]

I'm convinced our legal system has gone bonkers. all down to the pernicious Human Rights Act. We have cases now where illegal immigrants, driving cars without a licence, can run people over and kill them, spend a few years in prison then appeal against a deportation order because they have rights.

Whatever happened to the rights of the victims?? Have we now lost the plot?

Time for a rethink of the Human Rights Act and all it entails methinks.

 

[Infidel]

A very good friend of mine has just become a JP, after 6 months of courses lectures etc his first day sitting alongside a well established JP he was presented with a book of tariff charts.
It appears that you look up the the generic charge (created by the CPS) follow the flow chart and if you find them guilty bingo there is the sentence.

He asked what the point of the courses etc where if this was the way things where handled the reply he got was "none". It also appears that so many old established JP's have given up that there is a chronic shortage.

He describes it as "conveyor belt justice"

 

[Nige F]

i fairly recently knew a woman who stabbed her husband 72 times. (just making sure...) she went down the temp. insanity route and after trial was released back into the real world.
i could have almost believed it, except for one thing. halfway through the slaughter the knife broke inide his chest. she was so 'insane', she went to the knife drawer and got out another one and carried on.
wouldn't you think 30 or 40 perforations were enough?
a good barrister and off you go.

good job you weren`t on the jury then. Insanity , temporary or otherwise doesn`t preclude other "rational" thinking.

 

[Nige F]

listening to LBC this evening, it appears the nutter who murdered his wife and pleaded insanity (temp) has been passed unfit to be a cabbie and is now using our legal system to contest it at the high court.
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He should be let loose in Eastbourne - half are as he is - the other half are A** es And the bus " drivers" too.