Liverpool attacker sentenced

[ireallycantbelievethis]

Paul Doyle, the Liverpool parade attacker, has been sentenced to twenty one years and six months in prison for his attack that injured 134 people.

That’s 258 months, or less than two months per person injured. He’ll be out in half, so 129 months served. Less than one month per person. Reading the victim impact statements was awful. One from a little boy, who is completely traumatised, stuck with me.

AIBU to think this is a farce?!

Yes there was a shocking case where a drunk driver killed two teenagers on a pedestrian crossing (they had a green man) and he only got 6 years!

The BBC are pushing that he’s the “nice neighbour” and he had “two sides”

The BBC aren't 'pushing' anything. They are reporting on the story. His previous history, good and bad, is relevant in trying to understand what happened.

The BBC reported all the victim impact statements.

do we know how he ended up in the parade of an opposing team ?

He was going to pick up some friends who had been attending the parade, having dropped them there earlier. This was all in the BBC's live reporting over the last two days.

You're really trying to put blame on his wife here??

Calm down OP. You have asked if you are being unreasonable and are then going bananas when posters are telling you that you are! You are by the way. Child sex offenders get less time than that!

No. Why should it? He didn't get lost and stop, he drove deeper into the crowd raging at them. Had he driven over people he wouldn't have known or seemingly cared.

Now you’re reacting with rage.

These people weren’t ‘mates’, and you’re accusing them of lying.

I dont think it should be, dont get me wrong

Another angry man who can't control his temper

Horrific.

Papers have to be careful what they report before the outcome of a trial, so previous convictions won’t normally be mentioned until after the trial

I am all for harsh sentences and think all murderers should serve life etc, but in this case I think it’s a good one. I was worried he’d get a lot less

I thought it was a heavy sentence. Ironic that it was a crime committed through pure rage and the OP is frothing about the sentence.

This about his Twitter account shows something predictable as well.

That's very naive. There's a reason that "Nice bloke. Quiet. Kept himself to himself" is a trope.

He’ll be 68 by the time he gets out. Just young enough to enjoy a nice long retirement. It’s disgusting.

I think lots of people have absolutely no idea what it's like to be in prison, particularly for a long stretch.

15-20 years. Imagine that - I mean properly try to imagine it. Locked up, no liberty, the sheer endless boredom with no end in sight, away from family and friends, constantly on edge, fear of violence, the noise, never any peace. It is a very harsh punishment. As he deserves.

I'd love to see the some of the "holiday camp" brigade serve a few months and see what it's like. They get TV and PlayStations so it would be easy, right?

It seemed appropriate for the crime

I hope he serves the full 21 years but I doubt it. We're too soft. I was actually expecting him to get off if I'm honest but I think he's lawyers will appeal it in a few years and he'll get it reduced. I hope not though but they will.

According to some newspaper articles he has PTSD and was discharged from the royal marines due to it. With all the people kicking and hitting the car beforehand he just put he's foot down. Again I hope they don't appeal but I can't see him doing the full 21 years.

Rubbish. Calm down and stop van banging. You're as angry and reactionary as the defendant.

I'm afraid you haven't looked at the full details of this case. It emerged in court that he has a long history of violence as a young man, including biting the ear off a sailor in a drunken brawl and punching another man in the face in an unrelated incident. This was no one off incident, this was an example of male rage and violence and yet again innocent people have paid the price.

Honestly I hope it's increased. He's proved he's not safe in the outside world

Judges have to follow the sentencing guidelines for the conviction. They can’t make their own rules up.

We can't rehabilitate pedophiles or rapists but we always give them the minimum sentence.....let them out and they reoffend.

Gbh with intent can carry life sentence, so can murder but rarely do they get max sentencing either.

Do you want the death penalty brought back in?

No-one thinks it was perfectly OK.

Who thinks it was perfectly OK?

What difference does it make that it's a large city.

He was going to pick friends up from watching the parade. There's no way in hell he could be unaware it was happening.

Daryl Anderson was drunk, driving at 140mph and taking photos when he crashed and killed a baby and his aunt. He got 17 years.