Not too bright

Mr. Presentable

Leigh Crowe got jail today for murder.

Reported on the news today that Gardai said that he had been IDed by witness, to which he responded "They couldn't have seen me - I was wearing a balaclava"

Classic

mike65

The criminal classes may get rich but they'll never rule!

Mike.

flogen

"Ha, you were wrong... I didn't hold the place up with an pistol - it was a sawn-off shotgun!"

(by the way, I'm going to move this to AH).

kittenkiller

Bless, imagine him having to tell that to his lawyer!?

GhostInTheRuins

I wonder how long it took him to realise what he said.

Capt'n Midnight

"we find the defendant Not Guilty yer honour"

" yer honour, does that mean I can keep the money ??"

biko

*groans*

JohnnyStones

Accused, Defending His Own Case: "Did you get a good look at my face when I took your purse?"

eoin5

*slaps head* doh!

Black Swan

mike65 wrote:

The criminal classes may get rich but they'll never rule!

Robber barons are in every society. They are rich. They rule.

Orange69

mike65 wrote:

The criminal classes may get rich but they'll never rule!

Mike.

Um.. you're forgetting fianna failure...

keen

haha what a muppet.

cance

Orange69 wrote:

Um.. you're forgetting fianna failure...

Ha, how many seats did your winning party get... :rolleyes:

Orange69

cance wrote:

Ha, how many seats did your winning party get... :rolleyes:

How outrageously incompetent, corrupt and down right embarrassing are "you're party"? :rolleyes:

Xavi6

Here's the story -

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/ireland/mhmhkfcwmhql/

Tipperary father of two receives life sentence for death of man at house party
08/10/2007 - 14:55:17

A Tipperary father of two who shot another man in the face at a house party in Clonmel in 2006 has been jailed for life.

Thirty three year old Leigh Crowe with an address at Elm Park, Clonmel, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 25-year-old Owen Cahill, the attempted murder of Mark Doolan at the party on April 2 2006 and the assault causing harm of Sharon Rossiter.

The Central Criminal Court heard that on the night of the incident two masked men entered the house on the outskirts of Clonmel carrying a double barrelled sawn off shotgun and a pump action shotgun and one of them walked up to Mr Cahill and shot him in the face at point blank range.

Pretty straight forward, nothing exciting to see here until.....

'Sgt O'Riordan said that when Crowe was interviewed he asked gardaí what evidence they had against him. They told him he had been identified at the scene. Crowe replied "that's bullsh*t. Nobody saw me. I had a balaclava and gloves.'

What a hero!

Xavi6

Sh1te. Ah well great story nonetheless

humanji

Where exactly does it say that that's what he said? I can't find it anywhere.

loyatemu

what puzzles me is, he shot one guy in the arm, for which he was convicted of attempted murder, while for the guy he shot in the face and killed, he was only convicted of manslaughter. how does that work then??

humanji

Because you can't attempt manslaughter? If you were attempting it then it would have premeditation and so would be murder. Or maybe it's a typo

TheMilkyPirate

How can somebody walk up to someone with a sawn off shogun point it at his face and blow his head off only to be charged with manslaughter?
"sorry officer i didn't mean to kill him, I was only wanting to give him a fright" :rolleyes:

Donald-Duck

Orange69 wrote:

How outrageously incompetent, corrupt and down right embarrassing are "you're party"? :rolleyes:

The best part of this post is the "you're" part.

charlemont

The trial was told that Crowe was one of two masked men entered the house that night armed with shotguns.

Crowe's accomplice walked up to Mr Cahill and shot him in the face at point blank range. Mr Cahill died "almost instantaneously".

Mr Doolan managed to distract the gunmen momentarily but received a gunshot wound to the upper right arm while Ms Rossiter was struck with the butt of a gun.

Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/appeal-court-reduces-killers-jail-sentence-412572.html#ixzz0vH7WQrCJ

ldxo15wus6fpgm

I thought you cannot incriminate yourself? In fact I was pretty sure of this!

biko

You can, that's why "everything you say can be taken down and used in court".
Or at least in Ireland you have the right to remain silent.

Btw, necro lock.