Adams thinks Callely would've got different sentence if he was disadvantaged

DubVelo · 29-07-2014 10:17PM #1

From thejournal.ie

"I did say to some of our folks had he been a kid from some disadvantaged area stealing €4,000 out of some downtown store he might have had a different sentence. But there aren’t any recommendations or regulations or guidelines for sentencing"

http://www.thejournal.ie/ivor-callely-jailed-1594742-Jul2014/

What think ye of this statement?

I can't for the life of me work out what point he's trying to make here because my automatic first thought was;

'Suspended. That's the sentence he'd have gotten.'

fleet_admiral · 29-07-2014 10:18PM

I couldnt agree more

Guy:Incognito · 29-07-2014 10:22PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

I couldnt agree more

With Adams? Do you, or he, read the papers? They are littered with stories of the latest scrote racking up 50+ convictions and still avoiding jail for the latest one. If they were treated harsher than Callaly for each crime they never be on the streets to get anywhere near 50 convictions.

Unless he means the disadvantaged kid would have gotten a lighter sentence, then I'd probably agree with him.

dr.bollocko · 29-07-2014 10:22PM

I think it's a miracle Callely even saw the inside of a jail cell tbh.

mikemac1 · 29-07-2014 10:22PM

Downtown store

Adams speaks like a Yank

fleet_admiral · 29-07-2014 10:24PM

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

With Adams? Do you, or he, read the papers? They are littered with stories of the latest scrote racking up 50+ convictions and still avoiding jail for the latest one. If they were treated harsher than Callaly for each crime they never be on the streets to get anywhere near 50 convictions.

Unless he means the disadvantaged kid would have gotten a lighter sentence, then I'd probably agree with him.

Yes I agree with him in this context

Hotfail.com · 29-07-2014 10:24PM

Oh yay more of the comments section!

Independent.ie lol you seriously think Independent.ie is a trusted source

SAYS THE GUY ON THEJOURNAL.IE :pac:

wazky · 29-07-2014 10:27PM

Difference Is, Ivor is supposed to setting an example so to speak, in his position of power and so on.

Cienciano · 29-07-2014 10:27PM

I don't agree with Adams, how many little scrotbags do we hear of that are walking around with over 100 convictions?

Davarus Walrus · 29-07-2014 10:31PM

A reference from thejournal is fast becoming the online equivalent of posting a link from the Daily Mail. Only with far less entertainment from the comments; and the site in general. Thejournal.ie is a terrible mixture of Guardian outrage and Daily Mail tabloidism.

Banjo String · 29-07-2014 10:32PM

Cienciano wrote: »

I don't agree with Adams, how many little scrotbags do we hear of that are walking around with over 100 convictions ?

Adams is an intelligent, and extremely shrewd man.

I think that may have just been his point tbh.

Potential-Monke · 29-07-2014 10:35PM

wazky wrote: »

Difference Is, Ivor is supposed to setting an example so to speak, in his position of power and so on.

This. There is no other argument/explanation.

Adams thinks Callely would've got different sentence if he was disadvantaged

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