NationStates Jolt Archive


Freaky Logic

Eve Online
26-03-2007, 17:57
Yes, strangle your drinking buddy so that you can be sent to prison, where hopefully you'll end up in the same prison and same cellblock as the guy who ate your girlfriend so you can kill him...

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=42685&in_page_id=34

Something tells me he had more than a few pints to come up with that one (although I don't buy his defense that he had PTSD and other "mental disorders").

The guy who killed the girlfriend has to be a real treat as well. Is there something in the water (or in the lager) around there?

Following a five-day trial Taylor was today convicted of murder and sentenced to life with a minimum tariff of 13 years.

The jury at Teesside Crown Court heard how Julie Paterson was murdered in 1998 by Harker, then aged 24, who was given an indeterminate life sentence the following year.

Her body was found in Polam Lane, Darlington, - without its head and limbs.

Harker, who admitted eating part of her leg with pasta, has never disclosed where the remains are hidden.

Taylor said his life was never the same after seeing his partner's dismembered torso, and that he thought about his former girlfriend every day, and wondered about what Harker had done with her body parts.

The court heard that Taylor and Mr Morrison, 45, had been "sometime friends" because of their heavy drinking.

Taylor was living at a Salvation Army hostel in Tom Raine Court, Darlington, where the killing took place.

The court was told that Taylor arrived at the flat with four cans of strong lager and a two-and-a-half-litre bottle of cider, and the two friends began drinking.

The jury heard that Taylor called police about five hours later and told the operator: "I'm very sorry to say, but I've just killed someone."

Taylor told police he had throttled Mr Morrison and then took the belt from his trousers and tightened it around his neck before he strangled him some more.

He said he then put a duvet over him and said a prayer for him before he fled the flat, bought more lager and went to a phone box to call police.

Taylor then told detectives: "I hope to go to Wakefield. I want Harker next - bastard Harker. I want him as well - unfinished business."
Ifreann
26-03-2007, 17:58
That's a......creative way to get revenge.

Paying one of the guards to kick the shit out of him would have gone much better.
JuNii
26-03-2007, 18:01
Yes, strangle your drinking buddy so that you can be sent to prison, where hopefully you'll end up in the same prison and same cellblock as the guy who ate your girlfriend so you can kill him...

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=42685&in_page_id=34

Something tells me he had more than a few pints to come up with that one (although I don't buy his defense that he had PTSD and other "mental disorders").

The guy who killed the girlfriend has to be a real treat as well. Is there something in the water (or in the lager) around there?that must've been some drunk to get that idea... and any indication that the drinking partner fought back?


Taylor then told detectives: "I hope to go to Wakefield. I want Harker next - bastard Harker. I want him as well - unfinished business."
yeah... like the police are gonna put this guy in the same prision as Harker now...
JuNii
26-03-2007, 18:02
That's a......creative way to get revenge.

Paying one of the guards to kick the shit out of him would have gone much better.

guards? inmates.
Greater Trostia
26-03-2007, 18:05
Something tells me he had more than a few pints to come up with that one (although I don't buy his defense that he had PTSD and other "mental disorders").

Is this to say, by means of the sarcastic quote, that you don't believe PTSD is a mental disorder, or that mental disorders are real, or simply that you don't think whether he had PTSD or not serves as a viable defense?
Eve Online
26-03-2007, 18:12
Is this to say, by means of the sarcastic quote, that you don't believe PTSD is a mental disorder, or that mental disorders are real, or simply that you don't think whether he had PTSD or not serves as a viable defense?

In the US, your mental disorder has to be of such a severity, that your judgment as to the nature of right and wrong are compromised.

For cases of "temporary" insanity, it's a little different - but the judgment still has to be impaired in the same manner.

As an example of how the US justice system feels about such things, realize that no US serial killer has ever felt compelled to commit his crime in front of a police station. Very few have qualified as "insane".

PTSD is also not regarded as a mental illness that would qualify as something that took away the judgment of right and wrong.

Very few paranoid schizophrenics make the grade.

It looks like the judge didn't buy the insanity defense, either.

Stupidity does not equal insanity.
Infinite Revolution
26-03-2007, 18:31
pretty stupid of him to then tell the detectives what he was planning on doing next.
Utracia
26-03-2007, 19:02
There are simpler and less violent ways to get yourself into prison. He must have been totally wasted to suddenly decide that he'll do it by killing his friend. I don't really care though if he is a bit mentally off, he is going to prison and good riddance. Maybe he will become cellmates with the cannibal. I'm sure they'll have much to talk about.
Lacadaemon
26-03-2007, 19:24
It's Teeside. That's all you need to know about it.
Ifreann
26-03-2007, 19:26
guards? inmates.

Guards have guns and batons.
Vespertilia
26-03-2007, 19:28
Inmates have shivs and "could you pick up my soap?";)
Rubiconic Crossings
26-03-2007, 19:28
It's Teeside. That's all you need to know about it.

QFT
JuNii
26-03-2007, 19:31
Guards have guns and batons.

inmates are easier to convince.

and the inmates have an easier access to him.