Man 'accidentally' kills wife by throwing at her.

[Bunlicker]

Started a thread in chat about it.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2976384-TO-think-hes-not-a-fucking-teddy-bear?msgid=70354797#70354797

Accidentally, oh, really?

Reminds me of that guy who "accidentally" killed his girlfriend by shooting through the bathroom door three times or so, because despite knowing she was there he allegedly suspected a burglar.

And the man who 'fell' onto someone penis first but wasn't a rapist.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/millionaire-ehsan-abdulaziz-who-said-he-accidentally-tripped-and-penetrated-teen-is-cleared-of-rape-a6774946.html You don't even have to try to lie.

And the man who 'accidentally' choked his girlfriend during sex.

What about the man who "accidentally" suffocated his wife when they were sleeping.

Some very accident prone men out there who, curiously, seem more of a danger to their wives than themselves.

Reminds me of the athlete who accidentally shot his girlfriend. Such clumsy men.

QueenLaBeefah do you mean Robert Trigg who 'accidentally' suffocated two girlfriends in his sleep, one in 2006 & one in 2011.
He would have got away with it if it hadn't been for those pesky parents of the second girlfriend who hired a private pathologist.

This is despite Trigg having a history of domestic abuse.

Such carelessness. Perhaps they should be locked up to protect them from themselves. Especially the ones who lie to the police about their "accidents"

The chat thread has turned into a great example of ignoring the victim in action

Read about this today in the Telegraph. Article mentioned the "teddy bear" thing as a pp said, quotes from friends/colleagues about how great he was and his accomplishments, then a sentence about them both contributing a lot to expat life. And that was it

What about the guy that accidently gave his girlfriend a black eye because he meant to punch the wall but missed?

Poor woman and her poor family.

What do you mean, Quentin?

The chat thread on this turned into one of the biggest de-rail fests I've ever seen. Basically one poster who was like a dog with a fucking bone turned it into an argument about whether the police in UAE regularly stitched up suspects, whether the confession the guy had signed could have been understood by him (her argument was that despite having worked in UAE for 30 years, the poor, poor misunderstood bloke probably couldn't read Arabic...) It was a bloody disgrace.

What M0stly said. Load of whinging about how he was hard done by, totally missing bunlickers point that the victim was invisible. For 10 pages. Bizarre

I despaired of the thread in Chat.

Even if it's a stitch up, the victim is still Jane, a human, who deserves more of a mention.

Oh that's completely depressing (about the other thread)

I was reading that thread in Chat and, as someone who also lived in the UAE, I really wanted to wade in, but I couldn't face it. It's not that the Dubai police aren't corrupt, they absobloodylutely are, but just that going on and on about the wrongs done to the male perpetrator (on the basis of no evidence) while the victim just vanishes was so exactly the point...there was no way back for that thread. So depressing.

Anyway, totally agree that this is all of a piece with how we report male violence. It's gaslighting - he's a decent bloke really! Then we all pretend that it's simply incomprehensible when men are violent. And the dots remain unjoined.