Boy, 16, on stolen bike died trying to get away from burglary victim chasing him

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/boy-16-stolen-bike-died-31963725?int_source=breaking-news

by AnOtherGuy1234567

26 comments

  1. Notice how they are trying to distance him from the crime

  2. I remember the absolute chaos in Stockport when this kid’s funeral was ongoing. You would think the biggest saint in the world has died.

    Same thing with the recent Salford issues. Low life criminals die and are then treated like absolute angels. It’s insanity

  3. > He still owed a duty to all the other road users around him, including those men on his bike.

    And if that isn’t a fundamental flaw in our justice system then I don’t know what is.

    Literally “owed a duty of care” to those comitting a criminal act against him. This isn’t over the top self defence, it’s not him assauting them or hurting them, or torturing them.

    No, it’s the legal system telling victims that they *owe* a *duty of care* to those who wrong them. That they mustn’t act in a way which may cause them harm. That despite the crash being entirely of their own doing, entirely of their own choice, entirely through their own actions that he is responsible.

    Joke of a system. He’ll get done, there’s plenty of precedent here. He’s toast unless he’s jury nullified.

  4. Oh no, what a shame. How sad.

    Anyway, what’s everyone having for dinner tonight ?

  6. >A teenager died after riding on a stolen motorbike which crashed as its driver tried in ‘desperation’ to get away from the victim of a burglary who was pursuing them, a jury has heard.

    It takes the article multiple paragraphs to establish that the deceased was one of the burglars who stole the bike, which is pertinent information from a common sense standpoint.

  7. 16 y, burglar, riding a stolen motorbike, putting other lives in risk. Why is so difficult to point the obvious nowadays?

  8. Burglar died being chased by the victim whose house he broke in to.

    Good

  9. If this was in parts of the US. They’d be charging the other two burglars for manslaughter. As the death occurred during the commissioning of a crime, so the survivors of the crime get the punishment. If you lead the police on a high speed chase and the police hit and kill a pedestrian, guess who goes to prison for decades?

  10. They’re trying to make the burglary victim responsible for this death for driving 16 miles over the speed limit (which to be absolutely clear is wrong and shouldn’t be hand waived away, but to say *this* is what led to the thief’s death is beyond absurd) yet when a cretin with no insurance mounted the pavement & ran me over going 40 mph over the limit they didn’t even take points off his license and instead gave him a one day safe driving course claiming they can only give him one or the other, not both. What a joke.

  11. I don’t want to say good but… okay?

    He was a criminal who could have killed someone else when he chose to break the law and endanger others.

    He wouldn’t have had more than a slap on the wrist until he hurt or killed someone, and even then he wouldn’t have gotten more than a telling off and a chance to recharge his batteries to do it again.

    The UK is terrible for prosecuting dangerous drivers and thieves. It’s only when it happens to rich people or someone gets killed anything is done but even those who kill on the road get away with only a few years.

  12. Absolutely no loss whatsoever. I hope the victim doesn’t get convicted, reminds me of that 24 hours in police custody episode.

  13. Well I’m sure the parents are well adjusted enough to recognise this is almost exclusively their fault.

  14. Because if the guy hadn’t been chasing them, those three absolutely would have ridden those bikes according to the rules of the road…

  15. Ugh,
    Stolen mopeds and 125s are rife in Stockport and tameside at the moment.
    They are going round in 3s.
    The other day me and my husband were in the car and 3 lads were on 2 (stolen) bikes and one was holding a petrol can…..

    Police are not doing much

  16. If ever you needed further proof that the judicial system is heavily stacked against the average person.

  17. If you play with feathers expect to get your arse tickled.

    Or another good one I heard recently:

    The dildo of consequence seldom comes lubed.

  18. I suppose I should be sympathetic, but as the victim of three stolen bikes (two motor, one push), it’s difficult. Next time I have a bike stolen (practically inevitable), with the full knowledge that the police will do fuck all about it, I might take a leaf out of this guy’s book and go on the chase.

  19. So he was killed after stealing someone else’s property. No sympathy what so ever. Hope the guy got his bikes back.

  20. Why do so many aspiring footballers with cheeky smiles end up dying like this

    Strange phenomenon

  21. And you just know that if the motorbike owner let them escape, he would have never seen them again, as the police simply doesn’t exist in this country

  22. “A 16-year-old feral human died after committing a crime. Victim is ok 👍 ” FTFY

  23. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I find it very difficult to have sympathy for this thug.

  26. Amazes me how cause and effect seems to have evaporated over the years.

    The kid didn’t just wake up on a stolen motorbike getting chased by a dude frothing at the mouth.

    He was the architect of his own demise…

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