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A classic case of what 10 years of soft liberal attitudes backed up by a nanny state has given the UK, casual murder:
Five child gang members who killed a pensioner by throwing stones at him while he played cricket with his teenage son were each given two years' youth detention yesterday.
**Two years, yep that's what a human life is worth under New Labour. Just two years and not even two years in a proper prison doing hard time, but instead its two years in a youth detention centre looked after by social workers and other state employees.
The boys, aged 12 to 14, spat and swore at 67-year-old Ernest Norton before throwing sticks and stones at him as he practised bowling with his son James on a tennis court beside Erith leisure centre in south-east London in February last year.
Two stones, one the size of half a brick, struck the father of two on the temple and fractured his cheekbone. He then collapsed with a heart attack. The boys, one of whom was just 10 at the time, were convicted at the Old Bailey of manslaughter and violent disorder in August. Yesterday, some of them wept as they were sentenced.
Judge Warwick McKinnon said their conduct was "utterly disgraceful and criminally irresponsible". Describing it as a "sorry and tragic case", he said: "This was a vicious, entirely unprovoked and sustained group attack involving a barrage of missiles."
The trial heard how, before the attack, they had been smashing windows, confronting another group of children for a fight, and running amok in the leisure centre. "You had each hyped yourselves up by your earlier rowdy mischief and misbehaviour before you attacked the most unfortunate Ernest Norton, who just happened to be there enjoying a quiet Sunday afternoon in the park with his son.
"A child would realise your actions were dangerous, running the risk that injury would result. I am satisfied that each one of you were aware of that danger. No sentence can restore the human life that has been needlessly and senselessly lost by this display of mindless violence."
The five were among about 20 youths who shouted insults at the Nortons as they played. Mr Norton shouted back at the boys, who then attacked him. A witness told the court he heard one of the boys brag: "I think I got him."
**Yes they got him alright and sent the message that our lives to criminals and feral youth that we are all now fair game. A year from now they will all be out o early release and I am sure that most if not all of them have a long future appearing again and again in front of the courts.
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