AIBU to think that setting fire to an autistic boy and running away is NOT manslaughter?

[kweggie]

''Yob killed gay teenager by setting him on fire at his 18th birthday party

During the party Steven Simpson was doused in tanning oil before he was set alight by Jordan Sheard
A paramedic who treated the young victim reported seeing the words 'Gay Boy' written on his forehead
Steven suffered 60 per cent burns and died in June last year
Sheard was jailed for THREE YEARS AND SIX MONTHS after pleading guilty to manslaughter
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as reported in the Mail online....READ the whole article which is deeply shocking.

IMO this boy was TORTURED and it beggars belief that the judge that described it as' horseplay that got out of hand'. Is this acceptable?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1713900-To-think-that-only-3-and-a-half-years-for-this-is-beyond-belief

Hopefully the sentence and the judgement will be reviewed and changed, with a heavier sentence for murder. As for the others, watching and goading, they should be held accountable too.

Well I would think that setting fine to anyone deliberately was not manslaughter, tbh.

But this was an absolutely shocking story and the sentence was far too lenient.

YANBU at all. It's like 'I set fire to someone but didn't realise that could kill them'. Yeah right.