Man who disrupted boat race is jailed for 6 months.

Super-Rush

A man who disrupted this year's University Boat Race has been jailed for six months for causing a public nuisance.

Trenton Oldfield, 36, of Myrdle Street, east London, swam into the path of crews on 7 April interrupting the 158th race between Oxford and Cambridge.

More here.

Jailed for 6 months for stopping a poxy fcuking boat race?

Thats what you get for sticking your oar in i suppose.

steddyeddy

Stupid judge thread number #104

Drakares

Meanwhile Séan Quinn junior released from prison due to "expired" charges.

I know it's Ireland not Britain, but the justice system priorities at it's best.

dr.bollocko

Fcuked up a national event that a bunch of people have trained for to be a twat.

Good enough for him.

Gee Bag

Drakares wrote: »

Meanwhile Séan Quinn junior released from prison due to "expired" charges.

I know it's Ireland not Britain, but the justice system priorities at it's best.

Not standing up for Sean Jr. here, his 3 month period of detention for contempt of court has expired. All prisoners are entitled to be released after their sentence is served.

corktina

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Fcuked up a national event that a bunch of people have trained for to be a twat.

Good enough for him.

it wouldn't have been jail if it had been an event for council estate residents though.

I do wonder why the BBC spend a fortune each year televising it though

Badly Drunk Boy

Super-Rush wrote: »

That's what you get for sticking your oar in i suppose.

But it was the rowers that were sticking their oars in...

My name is URL

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Fcuked up a national event that a bunch of people have trained for to be a twat.

Good enough for him.

I agree.. they do train very hard to be twats

gurramok

He should of thrown garlic at the boats, apparently its more valuable to the safety of society!

Gee Bag

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Fcuked up a national event that a bunch of people have trained for to be a twat.

Good enough for him.

Have to agree with that. I'm not a great fan of the Oxbridge rowing chaps but they are entitled to have their fun. (so long as they're not burning peasants)

On a slightly related issue, we haven't really heard much from this lad of late.........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Horan

enricoh

sod him, that nutter irish priest that stopped the guy winning his race a few years ago should'a been sent to a pstchiatric hospital as well for 6 months

usernamegoes

Gee Bag wrote: »

Not standing up for Sean Jr. here, his 3 month period of detention for contempt of court has expired. All prisoners are entitled to be released after their sentence is served.

Aye, his contempt has not been purged so that sentence could be renewed. I think it's okay to release him while new solicitors review the case, but if in two weeks his contempt is not purged then him and his dad into prison.

HeyThereDeliah

He is an idiot, he should be deported back to Australia, he can protest all he wants there.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Good result I say dear chap. High jinks of this order have no place at Henley.

the keen edge

corktina wrote: »

it wouldn't have been jail if it had been an event for council estate residents though.

I do wonder why the BBC spend a fortune each year televising it though

Yeah, but joy-riding and random abandonment of Tesco shopping trollys down railway embankments doesn't make good sporting television programming thought does it?

TheLastMohican

AKA Fr Cornelius Hogan .......... famed underwater dancer for peace?

Kurz

Six months is a stupid amount of time for this, any amount of prison time would be stupid for such a nothing-offense.

HeyThereDeliah

Kurz wrote: »

Six months is a stupid amount of time for this, any amount of prison time would be stupid for such a nothing-offense.

How is it a nothing offence? He put himself and others in danger, what if he got hurt, then the emergency services would have to rescue him, would he cover the cost of this ?

PizzamanIRL

And that muppet of a priest got nothing for ruining an Olympian's chance of gold.

One simply does not disrupt a rowing contest.

Kurz

HeyThereDeliah wrote: »

How is it a nothing offence? He put himself and others in danger, what if he got hurt, then the emergency services would have to rescue him, would he cover the cost of this ?

If he had assaulted one of the participants after the thing he probably would have gotten a shorter sentence. Half a year in jail is excessive to the extreme. I don't know who covers the cost of what or how it's relevant? Six months housing someone in jail ain't cheap either.

TheLastMohican

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

And that muppet of a priest got nothing for ruining an Olympian's chance of gold.

Wiki says otherwise.
De Lima was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin Medal at the closing ceremony for his "...exceptional demonstration of fair play and Olympic values during this evening's marathon."[citation needed]
The head of the Brazilian Track Federation launched an appeal based on the controversy surrounding Horan's interference in the marathon. The federation asked that de Lima also be awarded a gold medal, citing precedents set in past Olympic matches where extenuating circumstances have led to more than one winner in certain sports. This request was denied.
Horan was given a 12 months' suspended sentence by a Greek court and fined €3,000.

keelanj69

6 months? Sure you wouldnt serve that for sexual assaulting a teenager. Bit harsh.

Internet Hero

why would anyone care about a load of billionairs racing in rowing boats? they should go to jail too haha

HeyThereDeliah

Kurz wrote: »

If he had assaulted one of the participants after the thing he probably would have gotten a shorter sentence. Half a year in jail is excessive to the extreme. I don't know who covers the cost of what or how it's relevant? Six months housing someone in jail ain't cheap either.

I suppose you have a point but what he did was stupid and ok six months is excessive but he deserved a very large fine.

What did he hope to achieve by his actions, he is criticising the country and its people after all.

Piliger

Super-Rush wrote: »

More here.

Jailed for 6 months for stopping a poxy fcuking boat race?

Thats what you get for sticking your oar in i suppose.

He deserved every day of it and should have been fined ten grand as well !! tosser !

Richard Hillman

Those rowers gave a whole year of their lives for that race and it was ruined by that clown. Im sure if that bottle in the 100m Olympic Final had have hit Usain Bolt or forced him to false start, people would be also be calling for the culprit to be punished severely.

UglyBolloxFace

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Fcuked up a national event that a bunch of people have trained for to be a twat.

Good enough for him.

Twat training?

Micky Dolenz

Community service would have been better. Why waste tax payers money on a non violent offender like this. Madness that he finds himself up shits creek without a paddle.

Allyall

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Those rowers gave a whole year of their lives for that race and it was ruined by that clown. Im sure if that bottle in the 100m Olympic Final had have hit Usain Bolt or forced him to false start, people would be also be calling for the culprit to be punished severely.

Could they not just restart it? It doesn't have to be immediately....
Also, Usain Bolt running in the Olympics 100m WORLD event, is not nearly the same as two teams in London.


Anne Molyneux- Circuit Judge (crime)

This is the best job in the world. You are a part of the criminal justice system and the work is about ensuring that cases are tried fairly and that people are treated with respect, no matter who they are and no matter what their role in the proceedings might be.

You have a responsibility for people's lives and finding an appropriate sentence can be almost unbearably hard. It is a very intellectually and emotionally demanding role.

Namlub

Internet Hero wrote: »

why would anyone care about a load of billionairs racing in rowing boats? they should go to jail too haha

The same reason people care about about a load of billionaires kicking a ball around a field, presumably.

mike65

Deport him.

Dr House rowed in the boat race I'll have you know!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIN_JjfAW7M

Allyall

Here's one of those Oxford-scarf-wearing brats ruining a game of soccerball
(Horrible music)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq0Q4prLBMk

Terrontress

It's interesting that most people will accept this as fair, were happy that David Gilmour's son got a year for swinging off the cenotaph and that man who wrote something on his t-shirt about the dead police officers got a custodial sentence.

But they seem quite hacked off at the Pussy Riot sorts being jailed for running in to a church and screaming some nonsense.

They all don't seem very dissimilar to me.

mike65

Pussy Riot were pretty much jailed at the behest of Putin.

Terrontress

mike65 wrote: »

Pussy Riot were pretty much jailed at the behest of Putin.

Whereas Gilmour's son was jailed at the behest of the newspapers.

I am not saying one is right or one is wrong but there seems to be a big fuss in the UK about Pussy Riot when their own justice system is not averse to jailing people for offending the sensibilities of the majority.

Allyall

I didn't care about Pussy Riot initially, but when Madonna started mouthing about them, i hoped they got life.

kincsem

This thread is about an offender getting jail time? Do the crime, do the time. His choice to be an idiot.

Lapin

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Good result I say dear chap. High jinks of this order have no place at Henley.

Henley ?

I take it geography isn't your strong point.

My name is URL

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Community service would have been better. Why waste tax payers money on a non violent offender like this. Madness that he finds himself up shits creek without a paddle.

Those sentences are reserved for the likes of Justin Lee Collins who systemically abused his girlfriend for a number of years... nowhere near as bad as some eejit getting in the way of a row-boat

steve9859

Allyall wrote: »

Could they not just restart it? It doesn't have to be immediately....
Also, Usain Bolt running in the Olympics 100m WORLD event, is not nearly the same as two teams in London.


Anne Molyneux- Circuit Judge (crime)

No. The tide is too fast to race outside of the very small time window just around high tide. And they can't just arbitrarily close the Thames to do it on another weekend. Once it was stopped, that was it. The hard work of 18 people ruined, the year of work for nothing, 'cause of one selfish twat.

Lapin

And the nomination for the most 'ill thought out and pointless' post of the year goes to -

Internet Hero wrote: »

why would anyone care about a load of billionairs racing in rowing boats? they should go to jail too haha

King Of Wishful Thinking

Again, it all just comes down to money - has fcuk all to do with anything else.

The guy disrupted a prestigious event and so the judge is showboating (forgive the pun) in an obvious effort to appease those who were put out by the event having to be delayed.

Six months in prison for delaying a race is a total and utter nonsense, considering the amount of suspended sentences that get dished out over here regularly for vicious assaults and the like.

Can't for the life of me understand how anyone could it is justified.

Piliger

Internet Hero wrote: »

why would anyone care about a load of billionairs racing in rowing boats? they should go to jail too haha

No chance of any hyperbole then ....... ?

holystungun9

Disrupted a boat race ?

That's a paddlin'.

Super-Rush

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Fcuked up a national event that a bunch of people have trained for to be a twat.

Good enough for him.

With the crimes that go unpunished you think that this deserved a 6 month jail sentence?

If is had been a race between two lesser known universities nothing like this would have happened.

Money certainly talked in this instance.

Run_to_da_hills

Kurz wrote: »

Six months is a stupid amount of time for this, any amount of prison time would be stupid for such a nothing-offense.

This is the fascist police state of England

Piliger

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

This is the fascist police state of England

Yeah sure ....... :rolleyes:

Piliger

King Of Wishful Thinking wrote: »

Again, it all just comes down to money - has fcuk all to do with anything else.

Ahhh so financial crimes by bankers should be ignored because it's only about money .... yeah ... we can go with that ...

Annasopra

Guardian article on this has interesting angle

http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/19/boat-race-protest-class-war?cat=commentisfree&type=article

Micky Dolenz

mango salsa wrote: »

Guardian article on this has interesting angle

http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/19/boat-race-protest-class-war?cat=commentisfree&type=article

Spot on, public nuisance me hole. The race was restarted 30 minutes later and now gets 6 months to ponder it. Pathetic.