Waterford acid attack

Anyone who carries acid around with the intention of attacking people with it on a public street in this country should face a minimum of 15 years in prison with no exceptions like bail & suspended sentences etc. This should apply to any perpetrator without any exceptions without them having the gall to say in front of a judge that they had a "tough upbringing" or a "hard life". These statements should be discounted immediately when the state applies the sentencing in court.

We, as a society, now have to look at & face up the circumstances of this attack as a way of fast-tracking legislation through our own parliament.

These scumbags carried out this attack on a young man from Waterford who was actually making a really positive contribution to the football community in Ireland. He plays for a national football team at an under age level. That should be an amazing achievement from a guy like him where other people could look up to him with them having the potential to be playing like him in future. He should not have deserved to be attacked with acid under any circumstance if he was a sportsperson or not. Anyone who says otherwise is fundamentally sick in their head. He is now a unfortunate victim of an attack that is so rare & horrifying in where the effects of it have the potential to become permanent to himself & his family.

I will wish all the other victims the best of luck with their injuries especially to that young lad in Waterford.

Thats awful. Poor fellas way too young and innocent

Poor families too.

Hope the ****(s) who did it are jailed and key thrown away

Hal3000 wrote: »

Higher taxes for a safer environment ? Ah .. yeah

Yes, prisons spaces have to be paid for.

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Very few parties in Ireland are demanding higher sentences. To be honest the entire Irish political system is broken.

People are demanding appropriate sentencing instead of the revolving door, there are only a fixed number of spaces in prisons despite the population having risen by over a million in 20 years.

Hal3000 wrote: »

Revolving door ? Oh you mean the door we have for repeat offenders? The guys with 100 + convictions who are now such positive members of our society ?

Yes, there are severe shortages in detention spaces for youth crime. Oberstown which you might have heard of cannot cater for all the youths committing crime. Intervention in a young persons crime spree(those 100 plus convictions) via rehab, mental health, educational opportunity to help divert juveniles and prison space for the worst offenders all has to be paid for. If there was sufficient resources paid for from our taxes, we wouldn't have all those 100+ convictions crims walking the streets.
This along with lack of overall policing all boils down to lack of paid for resources, cutbacks in public services as the expense of lower taxes for the individual. (our hospitals are the same with lack of beds/staff despite the big rise in population)

Absolutely vile and sickening that someone can do this to someone else. I am also of the opinion that anyone using or attempting to use acid as a weapon should be put in prison for at least 15 years with no parole or shortening of the sentence.

It is a cultural response and is now part of the rich tapestry of modern Ireland.

Get used to it.

A most heinous, abhorrent crime, to scar a young person for life who will always be reminded of their injuries every time they look in the mirror, it’s sickening and sad, one of the greatest scandals of modern Ireland is the lenient sentences being consistently handed out by the judiciary to filth for carrying out horrific crimes, water charges, homelessness, marriage equality aside this to me personally is one of the greatest scandals of our time and it’s something I would march to change. If I heard the dirt that committed this crime got fifty years I wouldn’t bat an eyelid, I would smile and say more of it.

Reported last week, why are media picking it up now?