Tina Cahill sentenced to eight years

tritium · 12-12-2018 09:27AM #1

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/tina-cahill-sentenced-to-eight-years-for-killing-controlling-fianc-37618597.html

Just being reported. Mixed feelings tbh. On the one hand it’s on paper a decent stretch, on the other I can’t help but feel there’s been a significant media attempt to focus on her victims violent behaviour and to an extent ignore hers. It kind of feels that this ending was inevitable for one of them though.

fatknacker · 12-12-2018 09:33AM

Meh. At least they won't be having any kids together, thank fck.

Ultimate Seduction · 12-12-2018 09:37AM

She'll probably be out in 4 years.

King of Kings · 12-12-2018 09:38AM

She had a previous conviction for assaulting him and witness state she wanted to teach him a lesson with the knife used to kill him.

Yet he is the bad guy who affected her mental health..ffs

A joke of a sentence. I'll.bet had the genders been reversed he'd have done serious time.

Cockford Ollie · 12-12-2018 09:38AM

Women are always portrayed as the brave victim.

If a man snapped and murdered his controlling abusive wife, the media would blame a misogynist society.

Grab All Association · 12-12-2018 09:39AM

Fair play to the Australian judicial system. Here in Ireland she’d be given a suspended sentence in lieu of a donation to the court poor box. Violence against men isn’t take serious in this country.

King of Kings · 12-12-2018 09:47AM

Grab All Association wrote: »

Fair play to the Australian judicial system. Here in Ireland she’d be given a suspended sentence in lieu of a donation to the court poor box. Violence against men isn’t take serious in this country.

I agree with your point about violence against men.
But the charge and sentence was far too lenient..

professore · 12-12-2018 10:17AM

The only evidence of his violence is her testimony as far as I can read from the reports... And you can bet the media here would plaster it all over the paper if there was so much as a report of him raising his voice to her.

He had court orders out against her for violence. Doesn't add up that he was beating her and getting court orders against her at the same time.

If he was that violent if she hit him with a candlestick he'd have put her in hospital or worse. Not call the cops.

And an unprovoked attack? Please. Bringing a man home with you from the pub... Give me a break.

Cut and dried case of female on male domestic violence.

xi5yvm0owc1s2b · 12-12-2018 10:58AM

Grab All Association wrote: »

Fair play to the Australian judicial system. Here in Ireland she’d be given a suspended sentence in lieu of a donation to the court poor box. Violence against men isn’t take serious in this country.

It's not only Ireland. Women are generally treated far more leniently by the courts. When British student Lavinia Woodward stabbed her boyfriend in the leg with a bread knife and threw a laptop at his head, she got off with a suspended sentence. In the US, female teachers who sleep with underage male students have a significantly lower chance of going to prison (and if they do, they get shorter sentences) than when the genders are reversed.

Cina · 12-12-2018 11:04AM

Damn, he's really gone downhill since his Everton days hasn't he?

DellyBelly · 12-12-2018 11:05AM

Cina wrote: »

Damn, he's really gone downhill since his Everton days hasn't he?

That's Tim Cahill you are thinking of...Austrailian soccer player...

Henry Ford III · 12-12-2018 11:07AM

Sounds like a really messed up abusive relationship.

Grayson · 12-12-2018 11:09AM

Cockford Ollie wrote: »

Women are always portrayed as the brave victim.

If a man snapped and murdered his controlling abusive wife, the media would blame a misogynist society.

Men generally get longer sentences than women. With the exception of murder. Women get longer sentences for that.

So it's quite possible that if it was reversed the man might have gotten a lower sentance.

having said that, this is unusual in that both were violent, so I could be comparing apples to oranges.

Cina · 12-12-2018 11:13AM

DellyBelly wrote: »

That's Tim Cahill you are thinking of...Austrailian soccer player...

Whoooooooosh :pac:

DEFTLEFTHAND · 12-12-2018 11:51AM

Grayson wrote: »

Men generally get longer sentences than women. With the exception of murder. Women get longer sentences for that.

So it's quite possible that if it was reversed the man might have gotten a lower sentance.

having said that, this is unusual in that both were violent, so I could be comparing apples to oranges.

She wasn't convicted of Murder.

The penalty for Murder in Ireland is Life. (average term served is 22 years)

The State also hold the right to hold the convicted person for the rest of their natural life.

orourkeda1977 · 12-12-2018 12:01PM

I'm surprised they didnt give her a medal while they were at it.

seamus · 12-12-2018 12:10PM

Two fncking idiots who couldn't keep their anger in check but wouldn't split up either. Seems like a pretty fair sentence tbh. Her response was over the top, but not without provocation.

BattleCorp · 12-12-2018 12:24PM

King of Kings wrote: »

She had a previous conviction for assaulting him and witness state she wanted to teach him a lesson with the knife used to kill him.

Hang on. She was convicted of assaulting him and he stayed with her? He's a tad more forgiving than I am.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 12-12-2018 12:58PM

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

She'll probably be out in 4 years.

Five before she can even be considered for parole. And that's just considered - no guaratees.

Cockford Ollie wrote: »

Women are always portrayed as the brave victim.

If a man snapped and murdered his controlling abusive wife, the media would blame a misogynist society.

To be honest, it sounds like they were as bad as each other. I don't say this often, but the world is probably better off with both of them out of commission.

Just thankful they never had a kid.

dbas · 12-12-2018 01:16PM

She has literally gotten away with murder here. Scumbag. No way a 'beaten woman' would hit/stab/provoke/insult an abusive man. He looks like he could handle himself also. She's a lucky little toerag

Deebles McBeebles · 12-12-2018 01:20PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

Hang on. She was convicted of assaulting him and he stayed with her? He's a tad more forgiving than I am.

Reverse the sexes and it happens around all the time unfortunately.

tritium · 12-12-2018 01:38PM

seamus wrote: »

Two fncking idiots who couldn't keep their anger in check but wouldn't split up either. Seems like a pretty fair sentence tbh. Her response was over the top, but not without provocation.

Tbh if his action that night constituted provocation we’d have blood on the street 24/7.

Not saying he wasn’t a horrible ****er but what she did was massively out of proportion to the incident, which from the evidence she had form for. Very lucky to only be done for manslaughter, but also predictable that one of them would end up dead

Lux23 · 12-12-2018 01:50PM

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Reverse the sexes and it happens around all the time unfortunately.

People sometimes have a good reason to stay with someone. My partner choked me unconscious during a psychotic break once, he never laid a finger on me or anyone else before and he hasn't since. It's not always black and white.

Deebles McBeebles · 12-12-2018 02:08PM

Lux23 wrote: »

People sometimes have a good reason to stay with someone. My partner choked me unconscious during a psychotic break once, he never laid a finger on me or anyone else before and he hasn't since. It's not always black and white.

I never claimed it was and have no experience of it myself having never laid a hand on a woman or had a hand laid on me. I was just stating that many women do end up staying after they have been assaulted. Maybe in the hope of changing their partner.

padd b1975 · 12-12-2018 02:24PM

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Sounds like a really messed up abusive relationship.

Kill or be killed.

padd b1975 · 12-12-2018 02:26PM

fatknacker wrote: »

Meh. At least they won't be having any kids together, thank fck.

Bottle blonde with massive hooters?

GreeBo · 12-12-2018 02:27PM

Why do these people stay together?

backspin. · 12-12-2018 02:30PM

If this happened in Ireland she would have got no jail time.

The guy sounded like a right prick but didn't deserve to be '"taught a lesson" that brutal.

arseagon · 12-12-2018 02:34PM

While there were a pair of them in it that guy was in Australia because he was wanted in Ireland on some pretty gruesome assault charges. He got what was coming to him!

backspin. · 12-12-2018 02:48PM

It seems he was attacking some other guy in the flat the night Tina Cahill stabbed him too.

Sounds like a violent fecker.

12-12-2018 02:56PM

backspin. wrote: »

It seems he was attacking some other guy in the flat the night Tina Cahill stabbed him too.

Sounds like a violent fecker.

According to the killer making her defence. The only evidence in the piece to say he was violent was hers, given as defence. Hardly inviolable

Tina Cahill sentenced to eight years

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