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To feel so very sorry for Hans rowsling

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TheEnthusiasticTroll · 02/08/2012 01:47

and think he should not be sent to jail.

thats it really, I can empathise and sympathise with him and not sure a jail scentance is going to make any difference to the supposed crime or his rehabilitation.

Im pretty sure he has suffered enough.

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TheEnthusiasticTroll · 02/08/2012 01:48

hans rosling

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omfgkillmenow · 02/08/2012 01:48

who? i dont watch tv so need more info

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TheEnthusiasticTroll · 02/08/2012 01:50

arghh maybe i was correct with first spelling I dounbted then googeld ad now have spelling of both [cross face]

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TheDreadedFoosa · 02/08/2012 01:51

Googled. None the wiser.

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TheEnthusiasticTroll · 02/08/2012 01:52

elite family very wealthy he and his wife have struggled with drug addicyion for many years. She recently passed away as a result of drugs and he did not report and remained at home with her body for what seems to be many months.

I feel for him because I just think there was no intent in what he has done, he just did not cope.

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TheDreadedFoosa · 02/08/2012 01:54

Hans Kristian Rausing.

TheDreadedFoosa · 02/08/2012 01:55

On the face of it, I agree with you.

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TheEnthusiasticTroll · 02/08/2012 01:56

RAUSING

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omfgkillmenow · 02/08/2012 02:04

Ok right that does ring a bell now. No I don't think jail is the correct solution. I think counselling, at his expense seeing as he is so wealthy. He didn't kill her did he? Seems like a private tragedy, and as he can well afford a psychologist/psychiatrist then let that be court appointed, also addiction counselling. No point sending someone to jail who is in no way going to harm anyone else at taxpayers expense. Its a sad story, but I think jail is not the best solution in this case.

JumpingThroughHoops · 02/08/2012 05:16

+He isn't going to gaol he has a 10 month suspended sentence for concealing the death, and a 2 month concurrent for driving under the influence of drugs.

GColdtimer · 02/08/2012 05:40

A suspended sentence means you don't go to jail. He also has some drug rehab conditions tied to his sentence.

diddl · 02/08/2012 07:27

Is he ill?

Is that why he couldn´t do what most would do?

georgie22 · 02/08/2012 07:31

He's already in rehabilitation. It's a sad tragic situation all round. I think her parents were at the house when her body was discovered.

diddl · 02/08/2012 07:35

I find it hard to muster up too much sympathy.

They chose drugs-and also had the money to seek help.

50shadesofslapntickle · 02/08/2012 07:35

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Arabellasmella · 02/08/2012 07:53

Leaving her body for 2 months is pretty horrific. One has to wonder if a suspended sentence would be handed out to everyone in these circumstances.

diddl · 02/08/2012 07:54

According to this her parents were in the room when she was found.

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TheEnthusiasticTroll · 02/08/2012 08:29

the bbc did not report it as a suspended scentence.

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DinahMoHum · 02/08/2012 08:32

if he was a council house junkie would you feel so sympathetic?

gordyslovesheep · 02/08/2012 08:34

I would DinahMoHum - addiction is horrible and people in it's grasp don't think clearly

Birdsgottafly · 02/08/2012 08:42

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DinahMoHum · 02/08/2012 08:44

Jail sentences never make a difference to addicts. it usually makes it a lot worse, but its not fair to have one rule for the rich and one for the poor

PacificDogwood · 02/08/2012 08:46

I had never heard of them until this situation appeared in the news.

I did not now that 'preventing proper burial' or whatever the legalese for the 'offense' is existed as a criminal offense - when I first heard I thought he must have had something to do with her death and then hidden the body or something similar.

Tragic on many counts on a purely human level, but I agree with Birds comments that we might all feel different about it if they both had been anonymous junkies somewhere. Would it have even made the news, I wonder?

TeamGBIWI · 02/08/2012 08:51

I can't help but feel terribly sorry for him - his wife died and he couldn't bear to see her 'go' which is why he didn't report her death.

He is obviously mentally unwell, as well as having drug addictions - I would feel the same sorry for someone in any financial situation. The tragedy and trauma of losing someone you love so much is terrible.

He isn't being sent to jail, but he is being made to go to rehab (where he is at the moment). I hope he can sort his life out as a result of this.

This is a real example of where having money doesn't make any difference. If anything, it's probably made things worse.

VanessaChin28 · 02/08/2012 08:53

I think it's unreasonable to feel sorry for him. Unlike most of us who have had to work bloody hard for the nice things we have in life (and I'm talking 3 bedroom semi here, not massive £70 million Pimlico mansion), he's had everything handed to him on a plate and yet has still fucked up.

If you have that many fantastic opportunities in life and still choose to start with the hard drugs and end up a wreck then you deserve no sympathy at all.

I think you should reserve your sympathies for the people who were in and out of care as children, brought up around drug abuse and domestic violence, failed at school as a result of no support from home and then ended up as heroin addicts.

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