24 Hours In Police Custody

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Fucking hell is anyone watching? Those poor women/girls.

I thought it was a really powerful one. I appreciated how much of the human element of it they showed. They didn't hide the dreadful impact on the victim's mum. Just so many lives ruined.

Yes! So glad you found the thread because I looked for ages. Hubby and I have been talking about it all day. That conviction was crazy when you compare it to some of the downright evil suspects they’ve followed before. They seemed to want the guy who was murdered to look like a victim when it was mentioned he had caused trouble for weeks. Murder…manslaughter surely at worst for possibly defending yourself. We concluded this was a/the police needing a ‘result’ and b/what happens when you can’t pay for a shit hot defence lawyer.

Fortunately, "causing trouble for weeks" doesn't mean you can be repeatedly stabbed to death and left to bleed out in front of your little boy's home.

@Cherrypie32 The murderer was a nasty piece of work. It wasn't self defence as he claimed as a lot of the injuries were on his back. He deserved his sentence. As for his parents they were deluded.

It can’t be manslaughter he was stabbed 15 times how’s that not intent?! And he followed him down the path and across the road not on the doorstep he stayed I think the eighth verdict and sentence this week

I kept wondering how that little lad is doing and what sense he will ever possibly make of it. Does he have any contact with his paternal grandmother?

Just watched last week's. Really glad he got found guilty

(I was also struck by the mum smoking when her husband has COPD).

@MacMahon Yes I noticed that. She looked evil in the interview. Lied through her teeth.

I was also struck by the mum
Smoking. She doesn't come across well.

Surely as a mum she'd have some compassion that the victims mum will never see her so again.

And you'd frog March your son straight to the nearest police station. Not claim you were going to go the next day..

@Toddlerteaplease she never mentioned the poor victim once. It was all about her wonderful son.

@MacMahon

I kept wondering how that little lad is doing and what sense he will ever possibly make of it. Does he have any contact with his paternal grandmother?

I’ve been wondering that too. How on earth will he manage to process that.

@MacMahon

Fortunately, "causing trouble for weeks" doesn't mean you can be repeatedly stabbed to death and left to bleed out in front of your little boy's home.

And if the murdered mans mums story is to be believed, he was “causing trouble” as he wasn’t happy about the new boyfriend being around his son.

[quote PheasantsNest]@Toddlerteaplease she never mentioned the poor victim once. It was all about her wonderful son.[/quote]
Yeah I noticed that too

“I won’t see him in the garden”

Well neither will the other mum. But you can go and see yours, yours will come out one day. But hers won’t.

And the
“He’s a good boy”

—whilst growing cannabis in the house—

He didn’t seem overly concerned with the shit he’d dumped his mum, dad and auntie in did he?

He didn't care at all. None of them did.

Yes I thought that regarding the murderer's mom that she did not seem to mention the victim at all. As people say it was not a fight and hsd stabbed him just once to protect himself. The victim seemed to care for his stepson too.

Regarding last weeks so glad he got convicted. I did jury service years ago in a similar case and the victims years on had had terrible lives.

Reading about the court case he showed absolutely no remorse at all

I was stunned that there were so many stab wounds and many on back area

The mum especially was deluded. ‘I didn’t know harbouring a criminal was an offence’

Very sad all round and many lives changed just for one act of madness

She looked evil in the interview. Lied through her teeth.

I don’t believe in evil, but she certainly seemed to know her way around a police station.

The mum was wicked a real nastiness about her I liked the dad though he came across much better
Hope the son is okay the dad had taken him swimming but left his glasses with his dad so that’s the reason the dad came back yeah he may of been gobby and arsey with his ex bringing a new man round his son but that’s no reason to be murdered and stabbed 15 times!

She wasn't deluded, she's typical of many women who enable their 'boys will be boys' brats, defend the indefensible and encourage their vile behaviour. She knows who her son is and was well schooled in dealing with the law on her doorstep as she made clear from her first interaction with the police in her home. A thoroughly nasty piece of work and so is her son. Cowardly, vicious brute.

@longwayoff

She wasn't deluded, she's typical of many women who enable their 'boys will be boys' brats, defend the indefensible and encourage their vile behaviour. She knows who her son is and was well schooled in dealing with the law on her doorstep as she made clear from her first interaction with the police in her home. A thoroughly nasty piece of work and so is her son. Cowardly, vicious brute.

Perfectly put.

I thought the dad came across ok. But agree that mum is a really nasty price if work.

@Cherrypie32

Yes! So glad you found the thread because I looked for ages. Hubby and I have been talking about it all day. That conviction was crazy when you compare it to some of the downright evil suspects they’ve followed before. They seemed to want the guy who was murdered to look like a victim when it was mentioned he had caused trouble for weeks. Murder…manslaughter surely at worst for possibly defending yourself. We concluded this was a/the police needing a ‘result’ and b/what happens when you can’t pay for a shit hot defence lawyer.

Did we watch the same programme? I'm astounded that this is what you think. You don't stab someone that many times, flee the scene and get away with claiming self defence.

Thank god the police got a "result". What do you think the police are there for? It was a fairly straightforward case, but they did their job and did it well.

The only people I felt sympathy for was the dead man's son and his mother. To some extent I felt for the ex wife/girlfriend and the murderer's father. The murderer was a murderer and deserves no sympathy. His mother came across like a hard nosed nasty piece of work. And yes, the smoking in the house when your husband has COPD came across very badly.