Man given community service after contract shot

Gurgle

From breakingnews.ie: Link

A man who fired a sawn-off shot gun at a Nigerian man he was hired to klll for a IR£15,000 fee has been given 100 hours community service by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Detective Garda Sean Fallon told Mr Paul Burns BL, prosecuting, however, that Byrne had not intended to kill Mr Streetly, who has since been deported.

Byrne said he hid in a bush and fired at a range of five or six feet, hitting Mr Streetly in the side.

Another encouraging message from the Justice department.

Sand

The Justice department doesnt decide sentencing, the Judges do. The Judge in this case thought that the sentence was appropriate - I dont know if it was. It sounds incredibly lenient, even it was some "easily led" individual who committed it.

Either way it wasnt a political decision, and despite disgust at the sentence the legal decision should never be influenced by politics, even if we disagree with it.

Sparks

Well, why not? I mean, it's only breaking nearly all the firearms acts regulations all at once...
:mad:
And yet legitimate target shooters and hunters get treated like real criminals despite complying with the law. :mad:

Gurgle

'Don't shoot people' being one of the fire-arms regulations.

The judge seemed to think the defendant was 6 at the time, not 16.

they both thought they were taking part in a game of some sort

Stinks of string-pulling.