Four Middlesbrough football fans who attacked a group of people on a train have been given suspended jail sentences.
During the assault last October, as the train approached Thornaby, one of them threw 24 separate punches.
Judge John Bowers said "You are not teenage hooligans, each of you has responsible jobs!"
The court heard they targeted a couple, a middle-aged fan who had only one eye, and a teenager. A woman was punched in the face and had her glasses stamped on then thrown in her husband's face.
During the assault last October, as the train approached Thornaby, one of them threw 24 separate punches.
Judge John Bowers said "You are not teenage hooligans, each of you has responsible jobs!"
The court heard they targeted a couple, a middle-aged fan who had only one eye, and a teenager. A woman was punched in the face and had her glasses stamped on then thrown in her husband's face.
In a recent unrelated case that sailed through the media and the court system a couple were given 6 years prison for trying to scam 250,000 out of an insurance company. It's hardly a lot of money and it seemed to me to be a bit over the top...
Here we have a gang on a violent drunken rampage attacking cripples and children on a train and they get to go home to do it all over again!
Where's the justice?
The UK is living through an insane age of judical endorsement of violent drunken gang rampages.
The judge in this case decided that because they all had jobs that they should be excused prison. Had they been jobless I'm sure they would have probably gotten a weeks solitary or something!
The fight against crime in the UK is a pathetic joke. There are stabbings and killings every day now and the government, judicial system and the voting public don't seem to care two hoots about it.
Of course those crimes also happen in Thailand - no one is immune to crime... But I'm pretty sure that once inside the court system over here they wouldn't have been able to catch the bus home and give the rest of society the finger.
Mind you... with prison in the UK giving free computer classes, free food and with round the clock Sky TV in the en suite rooms then the thugs in this case are probably pissed off they weren't able to go on holiday this year!
Read 'The war on peace' here...
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