22 Years A Sensible Sentence At Last?

[anotheoldgit]

/// Oshin and a second man, Junior Tahir-Akinyele, 19, were arrested the next day in a white Mercedes-Benz they had hired for the attack.///

Perhaps they were only pulled up because they happened to be black and riding in a Mercedes?

[pixie373]

I'm not convinced that should make any difference at all.

[Hypognosis]

//I suppose it's mitigating circumstances. The Ding family had a long ongoing battle with Du for many years that ended up costing Du 88k.//

Erm, didn't Du lose the money by indulging in some kind of legal dispute against Mr Ding and losing? I haven't read enough to work out who was being vexatious against whom in the dispute but, when it comes down to it, how can anything on such a low level mitigate murder, let alone four?

//Bijan Ebrahimi was murdered by mindless thugs for no other reason than them being thugs. //

No, say it: they thought he was filming children and did what thousands of blokes like him would have loved to do.

Another half dozen perfectly good cops risk being flushed down the pan as a result, thanks to not possessing a crystal ball or more conventional skills of perception.

Sorry to be at crossed-purposes with you tonight, ummmm. Nothing personal.

[ummmm]

I know :-)

Du tried to drag the Dings through court to try and humiliate them (I'm from Northampton) and it went wrong. His was a revenge killing.

In the case of Bijan Ebrahimi, the 'teenagers' knew he wasn't taking pictures of them, he was documenting the damage they were doing to his property/garden. They picked on a weak and vulnerable man...because they could.

[pixie373]

There may be different reasons, but they both murdered people. I don't see anything mitigating.