Soldier beats a woman unconscious, gets a great reference from his CO. Jailed after appeal

We need a rethink of how judges are selected and how they can be removed, this bollix is retiring but we still have the likes of Nolan out there too. If you're **** at a job you're **** at a job and should be shown the door, not reverence and immunity like these 2 incompetent **** in robes.

This case has boiled my blood and Natasha deserves every praise for not taking senile O'Donnells verdict laying down. If it was my daughter this happened to, action man losing his job would be the least of his worries, I would go through anyone in my way to get my hands on him.

To emphasise how despicable Crotty is.

What kind of a man attacks a woman like that? A coward who could not be trusted in an equal fight. A traitor who would never defend his country.

And yet his Commanding Officer was there to support him.

the guilty plea after the cctv, take that into account

It wasn't random, she intervened and that is why he attacked her. Random would be if he just walked up to her and attacked her having never seen her before. He is a piece of dirt and I don't agree with the judge at all but I think it could have easily been a man he attacked instead. Some of the banners at the protest today are worrying, a lot of them seem to be about demonizing men, same as what happened after the Ashling murphy case, and all the protests about the single male refugees etc. I think this needs to be questioned before it gets out of hand.

It's the one we live in for the most part...Maybe I'm wrong but the brave stranger intervening is the exception rather than the rule I'd say.

And you are right, if everyone says nothing thecsituation gets worse but tbh the system itself seems to almost condone scumbaggery and it should be taking the lead not relying on ordinary decent members of the public to risk their safety

I still say it wasn't random. I have seen this kind of thing happen lots of times, the person stepping in to break up a fight gets attacked, it isn't random.

Absolutely. It’s very rare. And it’s why it only naturally will stir up coverage, repulsion and outrage.

Yes, that’s the knee-jerk nonsense reaction. The real agenda is our desperately lenient sentencing regarding really nasty crimes.

Men beating men and men beating women is as old as the hills. It cannot be cured. But putting these thugs away may well make society safer, even feel safer. Right now there’s next to no effing deterrent.

I'm not clear on what was going on with his friends.

Did it happen so quickly that they were just looking on in shock or what?

It's hard to believe they just let him beat the **** out of a girl like?? 🙁

And after his disgusting boasting on social media and saying the victim provoked him.

He pleaded guilty because the CCTV backed him into a corner.

Apparently the Judge in question is known for giving lenient sentences for accused that plead guilty on a first time offence. On the basis that conviction would ruin their lives.

He did the same thing in another case where one male stabbed another male and plead guilty.

I disagree because the judges are doing what they're meant to be doing - the 'rules' laid down by legislators instruct or encourage them to be lenient on first time offenders who plead guilty.

What's more, this leniency on crime is broadly in line with the preferences of Irish liberals - including Irish feminist liberals. It conforms to the sociological theories of crime that they espouse. They are too egosyntonic to question their own role in liberating criminal behaviour through excessive leniency.

Now they want to carve out an unprincipled exception to their own rules this time because this one case has shocked them - and the victim is a woman.