Should This Woman Be Spared Prison?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4917846/Oxford-University-student-faces-jail.html

[webbo3]

I wonder what would have happened if it was a man that was drugged up and did the stabbing. ?

Dave.

[ummmm]

We've already covered that, Dave.

[dunnitall]

Treat the crime not the person or their aspirations ....if it's a Criminal offence then the law should apply whoever the person is ...IMO.

[tonyav]

I am also in two minds about this case, whether she should have got three years or five years in the slammer.

[sapelesam]

I seem to recall that even before her crime she had been banned from training with patients. Previous behaviour is no guarantee of future actions, except in her case.

[anotheoldgit]

She apparently escaped a jail sentence, this type of thing gives a out a complete wrong message.

If she had been just a Tesco check-out girl, would she have got off so lightly?

All reminiscent of the English class system that is still very much active in this country of ours.

[Islay]

Had it been a black female going to Tottenham tech - wonder if they would have got off?
Totally wrong

[gness]

Is it correct that there were three separate charges for attacking the man......two to remain on file....
That she attacked a fellow female student in the street causing the girl to ask to be moved from the block they shared and that she violently threatened another student when he tried to help her with her addiction?

If so she is a scary lady....x

[jim360]

I can certainly see the argument that someone who regularly gets so coked off their face that they end up stabbing a loved one might not actually be a danger to society.

[dannyk13]

Not the sort of character who should become a surgeon.

[albaqwerty]

I hope the University throw her out.

Silly judge.

[zebo]

It sets an interesting legal precedent, will there now be a list of occupations which get let off and others that don't? Had her aspirations been deemed less worthy would she have been let off a prison sentence? I hope he sues her through the civil courts for damages, she certainly can't plead it never happened.