in charge of a little granddaughter and ripped to pieces by a pit bull yet gets acquitted of gross negligence.
Sorry afka this is not a political rant just cannot believe this has happened. How can a jury have cleared this woman. Yes I know she has to live with the guilt but all the same.
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but I do think the lad who owned the illegal dog should've been punished more
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At least the bloke who owned him got a spell inside.
If that was my little girl I dont think I could be held responsible for my actions against the woman and her son.
The whole thing is a mess and it has torn the family apart (both her daughters gave evidence for the prosecution) they will all suffer for their part in this for the rest of their lives. Like someone else has already said her son should be banged up for longer, pitbulls are banned and the dog would have enventually mauled someone even with all the "precautions".
There is no doubt - and it was accepted by the defence - that Jacqueline Simpson owed a duty of care towards her granddaughter," he said.
"However, the jury by its verdict have accepted that, if there was a breach of her duty of care it was not such that it amounted to a crime."
If I had a smackhead, alchy, stoner granny she wouldn't be coming any where near my child let alone babysitting for him. But then again if I was brought up in a family like that how would I turn out?
And don't do drugs! If you want to know why look at the picture in the report.
What is the difference between a pitbull and staffordshire bull terrier?
Red was a handful though and I used to walk her for Edna (as she was in her 80s) but she used to lick anyone she met. i would never consider a pitbull but i love Staffies and I also think Rottweilers are cute.
Any dog can be a killer if its brought up that way. Its in the genetic make up
When I was 20 my then g'friends family bred staffs and pitbulls. They were the perfect family dogs, friendly, loyal, great with the kids....
there were 2 pitballs on blackheath common the other week outside the princess that were a 'fashion accessory' to these horrible looking oiks, in baggy tracksuits and the dogs were playing, but it was quite aggressive playing, they were on leads, but one got loose and went on a run, and even the owner looked a bit panicky, nothing happened it ran back but could have been bad.
But only if your a nice couple of middle class doctors with loads of media savvy.
not saying they were right leaving their kids tho - another strange case.
Ain't it funny how the papers go out of their way to paint people in a bad light for alleged incidents in this country yet if one of ours is up on a charge abroad they're always full of how johnny foreigner's legal system is a pile of old shite and our man/woman must be innocent. Tabloid hypocrisy at it's worst.
All prisons should be like the Bangkok Hilton
Interesting piece in the Times yesterday, on that same point
Mick Hume in the Times
Good article. Something myself and Mrs CD have been talking about
The point is that both families, in their different ways, were guilty of gross neglect and sadly two innocent little girls needlessly died.
The dog case annoys me because the dog should have been destroyed long before having already been involved in two previous attacks if you read F Blocker's link.
Bang on mate. And those cheeky bastards want to use the money raised to look for their daughter to pay their legal bills.
completely denied.
Er, what is completely denied? All that says is that the fund wont be used on defence fees. What I was saying was that there was a suggestion that it might be - a suggestion that had been raised by Mr McCann himself in a TV interview.
Rightly they have decided that it wont be - although I fail to see how this was their decision to make!
I think the backlash is already coming regardless of thier guilt or otherwise.
The story has gone on for too long now and the press want another angle. Attacking the Portugese police and some Russian who lived down the road have been done so now it's the parents they will turn on.