To think that he should serve his time like everyone else?

[LettuceAndPotatoes]

Article Here

It's a mirror link about a man who attacked his father for abusing his mother, very sad circumstances and horrible for both him and his Mother.

However, I would understand if he hit his father to get him away from his Mother but he got a hammer, hit him 5 times in the head resulting in a deformity and brain damage.

There is a petition to release him for protecting his Mother but at the end of the day he has physically ruined another persons life and I believe that he shouldn't get any special treatment for being able to do that to another human being.

I'm very interested in hearing others opinions on this as my family do not agree with me at all and think that he deserves to be released.

[grimbletart]

It's impossible to know all the facts, but from the link you gave us OP I would query your description of the father as "another human being". His ongoing reign of terror against his family would give like to any qualities of humanity. He had subjected his wife and his son to years terror and violence, he was attacking his wife, the son could surely not have made a split second judgement on whether after one hit or two, the man would have been incapacitated or whether he would have continued his violence.

The self defence argument could not have been used, I suspect, because the son intervened and it was the wife who was being attacked.

Sometimes when the law does not deal properly with wife batterers family members have to deal with it themselves and this is the result.

The son's imprisonment serves no one. What his action should be is a wake-up call to the courts and law enforcement that people who commit domestic violence should be removed from society and dealt with properly and then terrorised and tortured victims would not need to take the law into their own hands.