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I would be interested to know what the actual statistic are for women being sent to prison for similar assaults. The telegraph certainly reports as if their suspended prison sentence was only because they were Muslim however I suspect even if those women had been British and that was their first offence they would have been given suspended sentences anyway.

@The_Coven / @The_Problem_Page, you might give the advice that someone needs. / I want the "Moon on a stick and the Stars suspended from bunting". / So many haystacks, so few needles! / Conserve conversation and converse about conservation!

OMG I know many muslims that drink but not in public and one very good friend of mine drinks vodie with water so no one can notice she's drinking. Anyone can say any thing but it doesn't make it true.

If it is true the person was called a white slag as the quote shows "Kill the white slag" while they were kicking her in the head as she lay motionless on the ground black and blue this surely should be a racist attack or it it because it was a white women that was attcked.

I can see why it got you to write a bog too

The highest fences we have to climb, are those we have built within our mind

Anyone who knows me, will know i am not a racist but i do believe in justice for all. I think these girls acted in a vile way. And should have got the proper sentance but then i also believe her boyfriend should have maybe got sentanced too.

I have been in a pub where the landlord refused to serve an asian lad because of the colour of his skin it incensed my father so much that he bought the guy his drink then sat in his company. The asian guy is now a regular because my dad accepted him what shocked me the most abuse came from a mixed-race lad.

I think in this day and age we have bigger issues to deal with.

I not a racist and could not agree more. I remember as a young girl of 15 having a gang of white guys throwing stones and bricks at us and being called a 'nigger lover' because I was with mates from school walking to the park... There was one black girls, two black men, Dot a white girl and I. I still feel sad about it even today when I think about it.

Yes there is many more bigger issues I agree.

Edited to say: I used the N word because thats what they were shouting and the term used then my many.

The highest fences we have to climb, are those we have built within our mind

Edited 10 Dec 11, 4:10 PM by angellover

This type of thing is what ensences the public at large and fuels tension.

The law is an ass .... And so is the Judge !!!

The most tangible intangible ........ We all have it ........ Treat it with care !!

What surprises me is that it wasn't charged as a racially aggravated assault, which would carry a stiffer sentence, given what the girls are reported to have said. I'm out of touch with sentencing but if it were an unprovoked attack with the victim being kicked in the head while on the ground I'd have expected a custodial sentence, and the Judge said as much, so there may be other factors.

Trouble is, we don't have the full facts of the case. If it's that out of kilter, the Attorney General can refer the sentence to the Court of Appeal.

I do know that every Saturday night in city centres up and down the country, horrible stuff like this happens regularly, some will end up with custodial sentences and some won't.

I don't think, for a second, that the judge was being 'PC gone mad', I believe he,(assuming it was a he), reached the conclusion he did after listening to all the evidence and the arguments from both the defence and prosecution counsels, in the same way all judges reach their conclusions.

"Me and Kevin, we're just not the same"
Women are from Reigate, men are from Reigate. Not all of them of course, that would be silly, some are from Pimlico, or Cleethorpes, or that little village in Derbyshire who's name eludes me, or Bridlington, or Weston Super Mare, or Clac....

I vividly recall a televised court case from Russia a few years back when similar events happened, and the defense claim was exactly the same " not used to drink".

The judge doubled the sentence on the spot. " If you are not used to it, do not know how it will affect you, you have no right to be in a public place not in full control of yourself"

Please note I am *not* advocating Russian judicial methods! I just recall the similar case, and the very different conclusion to the UK case.