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Another horrific death

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Arcadia · 17/06/2021 17:15

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-57511912

Such a horrendous story where a girl of 15 died, with compressions to her neck, but only three years in prison? Crazy.

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Thelnebriati · 17/06/2021 17:21

He admitted the charges and still only got 3 years. He got her so drunk she couldn't sit on a bench, or speak. But he had a train to catch so he left her. I think we should start collecting these excuses.

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YellowFish12 · 17/06/2021 17:22

What the actual fuck?! Surely he could have made a 999 call to summon help as he hopped it?

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Amortentia · 17/06/2021 17:24

I was shocked to read the details of this case, that poor girl. BBC Scotland radio only said he'd left her and she died due to exposure, clearly a lot more went on. Plus, the sentence, bloody hell.

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Marguerite2000 · 17/06/2021 17:26

She didn't die of the compressions, she died of hypothermia.

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TheWeeDonkey · 17/06/2021 17:31

That poor poor girl, what a way to die and I don't think we're reading the full story. What an absolute shit of a man, I'm sure she won't be his last victim.

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AlexaIWillNeverSayDucking · 17/06/2021 17:31

It's absolutely awful that her parents lost their 15 year old and also had to listen to him say that she spent her final night having this oaf bite her breasts and compress her neck, as if this is anything a 15 year would suggest she wanted him to do on a first meeting. It's all so porn soaked and desperately sad.

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Arcadia · 17/06/2021 17:38

@Marguerite2000

She didn't die of the compressions, she died of hypothermia.

I didn't say that she died of the neck compressions but it's horrendous nonetheless, or do you think that's okay?
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TheQueef · 17/06/2021 17:42

Fucking hell.
That poor lass.

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Helmetbymidnight · 17/06/2021 17:47

My God. Heart-breaking. It feels like there is a never ending stream of men being murderous/violent to young women.

FFS.

When I was 15, we went out to get snogged or fingered. He BIT her and COMPRESSED her neck. Even just that is horrendous. As for what he did next, there are no words.

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InspiralCoalescenceRingdown · 17/06/2021 17:53

Jesus Christ. He got a 15 year old girl blind drunk, bit her, strangled her, then when he'd had his kicks, left her to die in the cold. What a disgusting excuse for a human being.

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Ohsugarhoneyicetea · 17/06/2021 17:59

Ugh Scotland again, seems to be on par with Iran for woman's rights these days. What a vile animal.

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speakout · 17/06/2021 18:01

I am outraged by this sentence.
This man goomed this child online, persuaded her to catch a train to meet him, plied her with vodka, until she was totally inebriated, sexually assualted her, applied neck compression and left her on a bench in a park in below zero temperatures.

Three years!!! And he will be out in 18 months.

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speakout · 17/06/2021 18:02

Ugh Scotland again, seems to be on par with Iran for woman's rights these days

???

Are you Scottish?

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MichelleScarn · 17/06/2021 18:04

@AlexaIWillNeverSayDucking

It's absolutely awful that her parents lost their 15 year old and also had to listen to him say that she spent her final night having this oaf bite her breasts and compress her neck, as if this is anything a 15 year would suggest she wanted him to do on a first meeting. It's all so porn soaked and desperately sad.

Its fucking awful, and we've only got his word she wanted any of it.
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Grellbunt · 17/06/2021 18:07

I can think of plenty of Scots, male and female, who'd consider themselves very much upstanding citizens, who would probably be of the opinion that she knew what she was doing so what did she expect? Nowadays they might not say it out loud but they'll definitely think it. There's a mean, puritanical streak in our psyche.

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ScreamingMeMe · 17/06/2021 18:11

Bastard. Thst poor, poor girl.

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speakout · 17/06/2021 18:15

Ohsugarhoneyicetea

I don;t understand your comment at all.

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ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 17/06/2021 18:16

Why is there always a reason why it wasn’t really their fault. 3 bloody years!

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wtfisgoingonhere21 · 17/06/2021 18:24

Having dc and reading things like this frighten me so much.

There's no respect anymore it's shocking

That poor girl and her poor family

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 17/06/2021 18:27

That's sexual activity with a child, on top of everything else? Why such a short sentence?

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Smokeymirror · 17/06/2021 18:28

Poor little girl, that’s what she was. This was a pedo who groomed her online then used her and left her to die. Disgusting sentence.

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YellowFish12 · 17/06/2021 18:31

@Ereshkigalangcleg

That's sexual activity with a child, on top of everything else? Why such a short sentence?

Yes that is a good point. Doesn't Scotland have age of consent at 16?!

Also "neck compressions" fucks sake - why don't they say "strangled her"?
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speakout · 17/06/2021 18:34

Doesn't Scotland have age of consent at 16?!

Same as England.

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RufustheBadgeringReindeer · 17/06/2021 18:45

Poor little mite

So desperately sad

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RufustheBadgeringReindeer · 17/06/2021 18:46

Sorry, posted too soon

So desperately sad as alexa said

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