Father goes on the run to escape ‘unfair’ indefinite prison recall over his love life

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1. Just looking at him, he looks like a humble guy who got unfairly done because he bricked someone in the head and kept on getting into trouble with the law.

   Why is the law so unfair against little violent scrotes who can’t stay out of trouble after bricking people in the head?

   Look at his little smarmy face?! Don’t you feel sorry for him?!

2. What did he do originally? I swear I’ve read the article twice and not seen the reason.

3. The way the Independent wrote this part made me laugh, as it made it sound like an afterthought lol –

   >Matthew, from Bolton, endured a traumatic childhood and was handed an IPP for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after he intervened in a fight aged 15, hitting someone over the head with a brick to protect a friend.

   >*He later jumped on someone’s head in a separate fight.*

4. What extraordinary bad luck, trouble just seems to magically keep finding this poor fellow.

5. He needs to immunise himself from jail via a dodge known as becoming a labour MP, that way you can avoid arrest and remand at ages well over 15, including not knowing better by age 59 even.
   Do not try if a right winger.

6. “He was recalled another two times over arrests that led to no further action, including once over a complaint by a neighbour which he said was false and malicious. Each time the arrests resulted in him serving more than a year further in custody. He was last freed on 22 November last year, after serving one year and seven months, despite being convicted of no further offences.” 

     I am sure he is a prick, but I cannot rationalise the above as the workings of fair justice system. 

7. Probation: All you have to do to stay out of prison is tell us about any relationship you start

   *gets in a relationship and doesn’t tell them as required*

   Probation: you will now be recalled for breaking your license conditions

   Scrote: why tho?

8. Almost killing two people- jumping on someone’s head and hitting someone with a brick.

   Well, shit happens dude, perhaps you shouldn’t have committed two attempted murders, then you wouldn’t have problems with being in jail.

   Sorry but I can’t feel bad for people like this.

9. There seems to be a pattern here once hes been released. Its not chaging his ways and showing he is able to live a violence free life? Far from it.

10. So… He was a 15-year old school-boy, who got into a fight? 🙄
    *(Not being funny, but who the fuck didn’t get into a few fights at school, at that age)*

    Despite spending age 15 till 33 (18 years of his life) in prison, for merely being involved in a fight, whilst he was a school-boy….
    He then is expected to keep the government constantly updated on his private personal-life, after leaving prison :: Aged 33!?!

    When did YOU last have sex?

    You, person on Reddit reading this… Show a random stranger all your WhatsApp messages, now!

    Do it, obey, or else you will be sent to prison.

    *Seriously, who the fuck wouldn’t just tell them to fuck off outta his life :: And instead choose to live a private life, as he is doing, (just like YOU do as an adult)??

11. This does sound extremely unfair, especially as these indefinite recall arrangements have been banned for a long time now.

    He doesn’t sound like a nice man, but he served the time for what he did and he shouldn’t have to feel that he can be dragged back to prison for non-criminal actions for his whole life.

12. I smell Bullshit, there’s a lot of missing information here……

13. Ok, let’s put IPP sentences aside. How does his probation make any sense whatsoever?

    He needs to inform them if he gets into a relationship. Why? Because he was allegedly abusive before. Even though the woman denies it and he was never convicted of domestic abuse???

    Even if he was convicted of abuse, what good would notifying the parole board do? Will the police take domestic abuse calls from his partner more seriously than from other people???

    It makes literally no sense whatsoever. If he is convicted of something put him in jail, if he isn’t let him go….

    On another note, apparently UK still has the death penalty! Only we don’t electrocute people, we just imprison them in bad conditions until they kill themselves! We’ve outsourced the execution job to the prisoners themselves. If the americans could only realize our genius they would be proud!

14. I mean I don’t really have a lot of sympathy.

    ‘’Matthew, from Bolton, endured a traumatic childhood and was handed an IPP for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after he intervened in a fight aged 15, hitting someone over the head with a brick to protect a friend. He later jumped on someone’s head in a separate fight.’’

    If he was justified in hitting someone else with a brick in defence of someone else he wouldn’t have been convicted of a S18 assault. Even if he picked it up and hit him in the heat of the moment they’d likely have gone for a S20 assault instead.

    I do think IPP sentences should probably be reviewed and cancelled however, but he’s not the poster child for it.

15. Some horrible crimes but we don’t hand out indefinite sentences for less than the most serious cases. When you hand out indefinite sentences people give up and stop trying to reform. He at least deserves the same punishment as everyone else.

16. It doesn’t seem just, looking at the details. Incarceration without trial or without a crime being committed because maybe you did or will do something is kind of fucked up. If he’d been given the standard sentence for the crimes he’s been convicted of, he wouldn’t have spent this long in prison. He also has a perpetual uncertainty about whether he might be imprisoned again without trial that makes living a normal life impossible.

17. so we are all ok with this man having his human rights abused?

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