QuoteWe follow "soccer" don't we? Typical of bogball fans though....Originally Posted by Ringo
Jail threat to rape trial 'football fans'
Friday January 28th 2005
A SENIOR judge threatened to jail members of the public after accusing them of behaving like "football fans" when the verdict was returned in a rape trial.
Mr Justice Paul Carney made his comments yesterday at the sentencing of a Brazilian man found guilty of raping a colleague at a staff party in a Clare hotel.
Mr Carney said he considered excluding members of the public from the gallery when the unanimous guilty verdict arrived yesterday.
He ordered one woman sitting next to the victim to leave the court after he saw her sniggering.
The trial - at the Limerick sitting of the Central Criminal Court - concluded last night when the jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict.
The 27-year-old hotel porter denied raping the 23-year-old woman at the Clare Inn Hotel, Newmarket on Fergus, on December 2, 2003. He denied a charge of burglary on the same date.
The jury heard the parties, who worked at a Limerick hotel, went to the party separately. Evidence was heard the woman was raped in her room after she drank a lot. She recalled the room door opening and a man leaving after raping her, but she did not see his face. She conceded she initially had named another colleague who she thought raped her.
Mr Justice Carney adjourned sentencing until March 7 pending a probation report on the accused.
Karl Hanlon
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We follow "soccer" don't we? Typical of bogball fans though....
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
ridiculous thing to say in an open court room.
would have thought the judiciary to be more of the "egg chasing" type anyway
Last edited by the 12 th man; 28/01/2005 at 11:09 AM.
Very derogatary remark.
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
I don't think it's very accurate description. If there was a crowd down the back chanting "you dirty rapist *******" at the accused, then you could see his point of view.
I have never heard football fans chant "you dirty rapist"
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
I dunno - anyone been to see Leicester City away recently might be able to clarify thisI have never heard football fans chant "you dirty rapist"
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
thats worrisome, yer man is convicted even though: (A) she admitted she didnt see him and (B) she already mad a nightmare of some other innocents life by falsely accusing him of the rape
stupipd comments from the judge. they as a people are totally out of step with the society in which 99% of the people in this country inhabit
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