Love this programme but the most recent is a must watch for any young person or anybody with a teenager/young adult.
It's called One Punch which is pretty self explanatory.
I had mates involved in something similar aged between 14 and 18 about 20years ago.
Gonna make my kids watch it.
If you get the time try and watch this episode.
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One week fantastic insight to interesting case, the next is very boring and slow.
One Punch was incredibly eye opening, how many fights are there each week outside pubs/clubs?
So easy to happen.
The guy from that episode gets sentenced this Friday I believe.
Manslaughter seems harsh on the face of it but it's took the boys life, it has to be a somewhat harsh penalty but can't be murder as there's no such concrete info to show it so.
It was a good watch, all kids should be taught about the consequences that can follow a simple punch. In this case it was an upper cut that knocked him clean out (not sure the show mentioned the type of punch) but it would have knocked his head back, knocked him out and the consequent head bash against the floor done the real damage. Poor lad, went for a night out and never to return.
I don't necessarily think the fella was deliberately lying with his first interview, he was just painting a picture from his side of things and (conveniently) left a few things out. And bearing in mind he gave his statement before the other fella croaked it, it kinda puts a slightly different slant on what he was saying - or wasn't saying.
That's the thing that really came across. Everyone can have a slightly different take on things and the Old Bills job is to take each account and piece it together to try to establish what REALLY happened, not what people may have thought happened or have convinced themselves happened after the event.
They did it really well in this case. But everyone can probably think of instances where they haven't done it so well.
If he hadn't hit him he probably wouldn't have fallen over and hit his head - although it's of course possible that he could have still just fallen over and hit his head anyway without being touched.
'The unlawful killing of a human being without any deliberation, which may be involuntary, in the commission of a lawful act without due caution and circumspection.'
It's manslaughter. Not harsh. Punch hard enough and it can kill someone, he didn't tap him on the head or slap him.
Thought the Detectives last night were top class, I had made my mind up the lad was just acting in self defence with a bolshy Eastern European!........................Bloody good job I'm a cab driver and not 'old bill!!'
All young lads should watch this episode as suggested.