To think justice served on the Mum of Disabled Child in Revenge Attack

[Mitmoo]

Thanks to milkmilk for posting this on a different thread but it has got lost.

The mother of a disabled child who plotted a revenge attack on a poster who launched attacks on a disabled child via the internet found not guilty.

DM but that doesn't matter - it's an important article.

A mother who joined a revenge attack on a man responsible for a vile campaign of internet abuse against her disabled daughter has been spared prison.

Sylvia Hooper, 52, was described as a ?decent and law-abiding? woman who dedicated her life to her seriously ill daughter Kim Arnold. But she snapped after looking on helplessly as a cowardly bully sent her a series of appalling comments via Facebook.

One labelled her a cripple and said the wheelchair user should be left to ?roll down a hill.?

Another message read: ?Your mother should have had an abortion. She only had you because she felt sorry for you.?

Mr Hooper, 19, punched the bully after his mother said ?hit him? and Berwick was then taken back to the family home by car. He was forced to crawl inside and make a ?grovelling apology? to his victim while on all fours. At one point he was hit on the chin with a rolled up newspaper.

All three admitted assault but denied false imprisonment and the judge ruled that not guilty verdicts should be entered.

He said: ?I sentence you on the basis that Mr Berwick sent messages that were wholly disgraceful and shameful but then tried to put the blame on his girlfriend.?

Mrs Hooper was given a conditional discharge. The two men were given community orders which included voluntary work.

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028961/Judge-spares-mother-jail-plotted-attack-internet-troll-posted-horrific-comments-disabled-daughter.html#ixzz1Vpq1S3To

Precised down full article on the above link.

Good for the judge, the right decision was made.

I think that people cannot be allowed to break the law themselves to solve their problems, whenever they feel that is the answer.

I think that more people (everyone on this thread, especially) shoudl be asking (in RL) why this was not treated as serious by the police. and keep asking. until this sort of crime is seen as "equal" to the ones they would react to.

I also know (form RL) that sometimes, humiliating and fighting back against bullies (especially when it is a "weaker" person who retaliates) means that the bully comes back even harder next time - and that next time might not be you, but it is still escalated for the next person.

I think that people cannot say that solving your own problems (eg via fb blocking) is too weak a response, and argue that it just moves it on, and then celebrate the fact that violence does exactly the same - make it not your problem but someone else's.

I don't think I said anything about the blocking just moving it on.

Illegal doesn't always equal wrong in my world, as I said, I think it is fine that the mother and sons here were charged and punished according to the law.

He got what he deserved, they got what they deserved, as the OP says, justice was done all round.

All sorts of things should be, but that doesn't mean they are.

you have to accept that if the law won't protect people, they will have no choice but to protect themselves.
violence isn't the answer. it can have a knock on affect, but sometimes it will seem like the only answer people have left, when they have gone down all the legal routes and still have to put up with this vile stuff.

So what if they had actually killed the online bully? Would that just be percieved as bad luck and that he deserved it? Both parties behaved apallingly and Hoopers party even more so.

pmsl did you dreg the thread up just to have a pop?

Dexi you sound like one of those over-protected middle class kids that has heard someone say 'bum' in the school playground and can't handle it.