Guest post: Special handling
Originally a comment by Rev David Brindley on A national emergency.
Remind me again of the number of abusers and murderers of UK women who were/are UK Police.
Unfortunately, here in the Great Land Downunder, we don’t fare much better. Male violence against women and girls is rising and too much leniency is still shown.
Narsen Moffat, 31, was jailed for three years for several brutal attacks on unsuspecting people, including one where he told a female employee he wasn’t afraid to hit a woman.
During sentencing on Thursday, the Adelaide Magistrates Court heard Moffat collected Irene McHugh from her home in April 2023.
Moffat then punched her multiple times to the head before locking the car doors.
“She pleaded with you to let her go so she could return to her children but you kept punching her, telling her she would never see her kids again,” Magistrate Lynette Duncan said.
Irene McHugh isn’t Moffat’s only victim, just the one unlucky enough to have a near death experience at his hands. In addition, he threatened other women during robberies, assaulted a male pedestrian, stole cars, drove dangerously and had an extensive criminal history of assault and theft charges, including previously being jailed for punching a man after he didn’t like the advice he gave him in the courthouse.
So, here are three cheers to him spending 20 years locked up. Oh, wait.
Ms Duncan sentenced Moffat to three years and 29 days jail, with a non-parole period of two years.
The sentence was backdated to May 6.
That hardly seems fair. I would have thought May 5 or May 1 would have been more expectable.
The lawmakers and the legal system have a genuine problem, however. If they increase the prescribed sentence, they increase the reward and benefit to the perpetrator for finishing off the assault by killing the victim. Thus, letting the bastard perp off with a rap on the knuckles heads to become the norm.
My father told me once that our majority custom of right-handedness is the reason for gentlemen walking on their lady’s left, at least since Mediaeval times. When out and about and promenading, if there came a need for the man to draw his sword, the woman would not impede it or be injured by it as it came out of the scabbard.
If we humans did not practice sexual dimorphism and were thus more like other primate species, arguably it would not be such a problem.
With a record like that he ought not be allowed to go free until his seventies, if at all. Can’t be trusted in polite society. Don’t think his incarceration should be miserable but it should be certain and inescapable.
Chain gangs working on the roads? Worth a try, surely.
Nah, I’m pro-incarceration but anti-punishment/slavery. Give him reasonable sized room with sanitary facilities, a computer with a sand boxed internet connection, and sufficient nutritious food, exercise, and (real) medical care to keep him happy for the long duration of his stay. He just never gets to leave (though some sort of “retirement” release late in his life might be reasonable if a proper parole board evaluates him as fit for release). The important thing is to stop him hurting other people.
I’ve got it. All he needs is a second-hand caravan purchased off eBay, some fishing tackle (NB: as distinct from the wedding tackle he already has) and naval assistance to set the lot up on some remote desert island away from the shipping lanes. Oh, and a bit of reading matter to help him wile away the years: a copy of say Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
This monster attended the same school as my children and he was just as horrible and nasty at the age of about 10 as he is now. Lock him up for life otherwise he will continue to make people’s lives sheer hell.