Custard pie

[addictfreak]

Sorry if I have missed this somewhere else.

But does anyone think 6 weeks in prison is a tad OTT for the guy who pied Murdoch? Or is it just me?

 

[TVC]

Fair enough if Sooty gets the same sentence:

http://news.sky.com/home/showbiz-news/article/16042809

 

[DiddlyDodds]

The world we live in .. Money talks, and when you have it you have power and the powers that be kiss your arse

 

[Arch]

I just want to know how the heck he got it in there. I'm guessing he didn't have the thing ready made in a bag. But you can't fill a plate with shaving foam silently, you'd think someone would notice.

 

[Red Light]

Probably more to do with where he did it rather than who he did it to.

 

[Bluebell72]

I think I read that he took the stuff he needed in a rucksack, and wasn't searched.
In the break, he went into the toilets and put the pie together, and laid it carefully in a hard paper carrier bag - expecting to be asked about the bag but wasn't.
Then he went for it.

Idiot.

 

[2Loose]

No way that sentence was proportional to the crime, certainly not when compared to other sentences for things involving violence or death.

As DiddlyDods said, 'money talks'.

 

[ASC1951]

As DiddlyDods said, 'money talks'.

That's just infantile.

Murdoch had absolutely nothing to do with the prosecution or the sentence. This was an assault on a witness in Parliamentary proceedings, which on any view has to be serious. What do you think this publicity-seeking numptie would have got if he had done the same to a witness in the middle of an Old Bailey trial?

 

[Paulus]

Could it of been a publicity stunt by News international to try to get a bit of sympathy fot Murdoch? Six weeks in prison and a large bag of bank notes waiting or him when he gets out in two to three weeks time?

 

[slowmotion]

Never mind what you or I think about Murdoch. Is it really that cool and "edgy" for a young man to stuff a shaving foam pie into the face of an 80 year old?

 

[mangaman]

I think I read that he took the stuff he needed in a rucksack, and wasn't searched.

I find it hard to believe you can walk into the houses of Parliament with a rucksack and not be searched!

A paper plate and a small amount of foam you could fit in your pocket, surely.

Still - the sentence is ridiculous.

Community service would be the obvious one. Locking someone up for 6 weeks will achieve what exactly?

He's not a danger to society for 6 weeks (then suddenly not)

Why not make him do something useful like community service, where he is actually contributing rather than costing us all yet more money in food etc

 

[slowmotion]

Still - the sentence is ridiculous.

Community service would be the obvious one. Locking someone up for 6 weeks will achieve what exactly?

He's not a danger to society for 6 weeks (then suddenly not)

I think that the sentence was a message to clever clogs media tarts perhaps?

Spare me the Murdoch comparison please....

 

[TVC]

Had this happened while the chairman of BP was giving evidence to a committee then the papers would have been screaming about the lack of security. For some reason the press and media are leaving this alone, It's as if they don't want to upset Parliament, I wonder why.

 

[Keith Oates]

As others have said it ws not so much the fact that he attacked Murdock but more of where he did the attack. Six weeks should send a warning to others not to try it again in the future.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[2Loose]

That's just infantile.

Murdoch had absolutely nothing to do with the prosecution or the sentence. This was an assault on a witness in Parliamentary proceedings, which on any view has to be serious. What do you think this publicity-seeking numptie would have got if he had done the same to a witness in the middle of an Old Bailey trial?

You make a good point, but the incident was very well publicised involving a 'famous' personality and I believe that had more bearing on the sentence than where it happened.