Mikaeel Kular's Mother Jailed 11 Years

[Jomlett]

Rosdeep Adekoya has been jailed for 11 years for killing her three-year-old son Mikaeel Kular in Edinburgh in January.
http://news.sky.com/story/1324326/mikaeel-kulars-mother-jailed-for-his-killing

She "lost her temper" when he was repeatedly sick following a trip to Nandos in the city on January 12, and smacked and struck him on the body and head.

[Daffy6543]

11 years doesn't seem long enough to me, especially as she is unlikely to serve the whole sentence.

[black_cat51]

it really does not seem long enough to me either

[sir.prize]

Only 11 years!

Justice for Mikaeel? I don't think so.

[Sqad]

Manslaughter......not murder.Top sentence for manslaughter in Scotland is 10 years.....I think.

[viv38]

Not enough in my opinion. Poor little boy.

[black_cat51]

if she was jailed for 11 years, then clearly the top sentence is not 10 years sqad!

[Sqad]

black_cat....;-)

I was a year out.

[Jomlett]

She had been charged with murder, but admitted the reduced charge of culpable homicide.

[SirOracle]

Found guilty of Culpable Homicide not murder.

[Brancaster]

Not long enough. She beat him and then concealed his death and hid his body in a suitcase in woods some distance away.
Mad or Bad? Both, I fear, but she should be locked away for a very long time.

[maggiebee]

Murder or culpable homicide the result was the same. RIP Mikaeel, you didn't deserve this.

[whirlyhurly]

Just no justice, is that poor child's life brutally ended then only a paltry 11years (less with time off for good behaviour) in retribution? In the USA I doubt if she'd see freedom again. I'm disgusted.

[mikey4444]

Its all over, at last :::::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28926241

This case really saddened me last January. Poor little lad.

[anneasquith]

social services were involved with this family, they are having a '' case review''

[baza]

^^^ they will learn lessons and improve, same old same old.

[douglas9401]

Five or six years and she can be back to her Sunday-school teacher like life of quiet contemplation and abstinence.

Disgusting woman.

[askyourgran]

Social services haven't learned much about those poor little children who have been abused for months and killed. Nor it seems is sentencing for murdering a child. The whole system needs overhauling.

[Obiter]

Culpable homicide is a concept unknown to English law. Either murder or manslaughter, both of which can attract a sentence of life imprisonment.

[grumpy01]

There are a number of variants in Scottish to English law Obiter.Though the oddest,which was never going to apply in this case,is the verdict of not proven.