Man, 23, who gouged pensioner’s eyes out before beating him to death with his own walking stick locked up indefinitely

https://www.lbc.co.uk/crime/man-23-who-gouged-pensioners-eyes-out-before-beating-him-to-death-with-his-own-w/

by LoquaciousLord1066

19 comments

  1. >locked up indefinitely

    Jolly good. May he live a long, and utterly shit life.

    eta – For people saying the whole “Well he’s not in prison…”, etc –

    Broadmoor isn’t exactly known as a place full of solace and peace. Happy for him to be stuck with other unhinged nutters.

    This is the thing. Winding up in a mental institution, as opposed to prison, isn’t the cool write-off that some people seem to think it is.
    It isn’t like you’re given a little bit of sympathy and some counselling and you’re on your way. You’re stuck in a place in which you have to deal with other people exactly like you, which… Yep, okay.

    He may never be deemed well enough to be released back into the community, and I trust those people to decide that.

  2. Well that’s just an entirely awful and terrifying read.

  3. Horrific story. Doubly awful in that it will inevitably push some towards supporting Reform.

  5. That’s terrible, I suppose he’s contained at Broadmoor and is hopefully going to get the treatment he needs. Indefinite detention at a secure hospital often means being detained for longer than going to prison, because they have to be absolutely sure the person is ready to re-enter society. Hopefully he will be treated and can one day rejoin society.

  6. Fucking scum. Hope he lives to have clarity of thought and his hideous crime before he suffers a painful death himself.

  7. Good fucking grief. Truly awful. I can’t comprehend how earth shattering this must be for Mr Fowler’s family.

  10. Clearly mentally ill and that’s being made clear because he’s Christian,

    if it was a Quran in his bag I’m sure it would just be dubbed another Islamist religious fundamentalist part of a larger sinister plot to take over the west

  11. Another life lost because someone somewhere decided care in the community was a good idea for people with serious mental health issues to be off their meds and just casually strolling around.

    I understand that people with schizophrenia are more likely to self harm but we have now seen numerous cases where previously violent people or drug users are off meds and not sectioned and then shit like this goes on.

  12. He should have his sight taken off him brutally as punishment.

  13. RIP Mr Fowler, what a horrific death. This stuff makes me fear for my loved ones – you think you’d be okay walking down the street but something like this happens it’s just unreal.

    I know that the attacker is young and mentally ill but my gosh how is he ever going to be on enough medication to be safely back in society.

  14. Judicial corporal punishment and the death penalty is the only thing these animals respond to. I hope he dies in prison, no burden on the already collapsing system.

  15. We need to support and restrict where necessary our community that suffers with paranoid schizophrenia. Some of the comments in this thread are ghoulish and reprehensible.

    Locking people up is one thing, but we need to look at the people who are at risk for this thing in the future, otherwise there will be more horrifying things like this.

  16. >A search of his rucksack revealed a large number of religious leaflets that stated: “Are you saved? If you died today: Heaven or Hell?”

    >There was also a Bible with text highlighted with the green highlighter pen.

    Who gave him those leaflets. I’m exhausted with religious freaks being allowed to spread this kind of content to people who are vulnerable and it makes it more likely they’ll do something like this. It’s a harm reduction we are ignoring.

  18. honestly i’d still prefer for the killer to be killed.
    harming pensioners is unforgivable.

  19. That does sound like a way to get locked up indefinitely, yes.

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