Should be life without parole. Based on the article it doesn’t seem to be substantially different to the Sarah Everard case
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Poor Zara. Why are we constantly shying away from whole life terms for crimes of this nature. Based on the severity of his crime, his history and how improbable rehabilitation is, he needs to be locked away forever. I also think that not turning up to sentencing should carry additional penalties, it seems increasingly common that these scumbags are just refusing to go on the morning of.
On a separate note, I urge especially female victims of male violence – sexual or otherwise – to avoid reading too many articles about this. There are so many hideous details that I think could be potentially very difficult for anyone with PTSD to read.
RIP Zara x
The details of this crime are utterly sickening. Poor, poor Zara. The footage of him following other women earlier in the evening (with one even running away in fear) is chilling. He is a monster and needs to never be free again. I feel so badly for Zara’s family and friends, what agony to know your loved one has been so brutally attacked. How would you ever stop agonising over what her final moments will have been like? It makes me so angry.
The murderer had something like 30 previous convictions, had only been released from prison nine days before the murder and had already breached their licence but the police hadn’t been able to find him because they had already left their registered address (they had moved to a caravan in a fairground). They committed the murder after being thrown out of a bar. What a piece of human garbage.
What can society do with people like this other than wait for them to commit a crime serious enough to lock them up forever!?
I’ll never understand why ‘life’ can’t mean ‘there is no chance of you getting parole, you will die in prison’.
Whole life tariffs need to be more common for such terrible offences. I know it’s not the majority opinion here but in cases like this I feel the death penalty would be a proportionate sentence if it were ever legalised again.
She didn’t get a choice about being horrifically murdered but he gets the choice not to appear physically in court. Hope the cunt rots.
Pretty open shut whole life sentence no? Huge track record of criminality, no chance of any reform here. Clearly looking to hurt, no motive, no mitigating circumstance.
I know whole life order should really be a last resort for the worst of the worst but this dude just fits the bill. Hell I’d argue he’s a good case for a special death penalty where we just shoot him given he’s 100 percent guilty but oh well.
And once again, this was someone who had prior reports and convictions. And slipped the net and was allowed to walk around free.
Absolutely mad that someone who’d racked up 28 convictions for 69 offences by the age of 29 was allowed out of jail in the first place.
According to the news, it sounds like he shouldn’t have been let out of prison in the first place. 20+ offenses as well. Should have been shipped off to fight a war with a spork.
McSweeney had other repeated accusations of domestic abuse before this, he got away with it. He was also a serial stalker. This murder is the consequences of misogynist hate crime not being taken seriously.
In February 2022, parliament rejected a bill that would have meant that sex and gender based hate crimes would formally be recorded as hate crimes. Take a good look at who shot the bill down.
It’s not a lot is it? Considering this cretin hunted down a human being in the street like a wild animal.
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Should be life without parole. Based on the article it doesn’t seem to be substantially different to the Sarah Everard case
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Poor Zara. Why are we constantly shying away from whole life terms for crimes of this nature. Based on the severity of his crime, his history and how improbable rehabilitation is, he needs to be locked away forever. I also think that not turning up to sentencing should carry additional penalties, it seems increasingly common that these scumbags are just refusing to go on the morning of.
On a separate note, I urge especially female victims of male violence – sexual or otherwise – to avoid reading too many articles about this. There are so many hideous details that I think could be potentially very difficult for anyone with PTSD to read.
RIP Zara x
The details of this crime are utterly sickening. Poor, poor Zara. The footage of him following other women earlier in the evening (with one even running away in fear) is chilling. He is a monster and needs to never be free again. I feel so badly for Zara’s family and friends, what agony to know your loved one has been so brutally attacked. How would you ever stop agonising over what her final moments will have been like? It makes me so angry.
The murderer had something like 30 previous convictions, had only been released from prison nine days before the murder and had already breached their licence but the police hadn’t been able to find him because they had already left their registered address (they had moved to a caravan in a fairground). They committed the murder after being thrown out of a bar. What a piece of human garbage.
What can society do with people like this other than wait for them to commit a crime serious enough to lock them up forever!?
I’ll never understand why ‘life’ can’t mean ‘there is no chance of you getting parole, you will die in prison’.
Whole life tariffs need to be more common for such terrible offences. I know it’s not the majority opinion here but in cases like this I feel the death penalty would be a proportionate sentence if it were ever legalised again.
She didn’t get a choice about being horrifically murdered but he gets the choice not to appear physically in court. Hope the cunt rots.
Pretty open shut whole life sentence no? Huge track record of criminality, no chance of any reform here. Clearly looking to hurt, no motive, no mitigating circumstance.
I know whole life order should really be a last resort for the worst of the worst but this dude just fits the bill. Hell I’d argue he’s a good case for a special death penalty where we just shoot him given he’s 100 percent guilty but oh well.
And once again, this was someone who had prior reports and convictions. And slipped the net and was allowed to walk around free.
Absolutely mad that someone who’d racked up 28 convictions for 69 offences by the age of 29 was allowed out of jail in the first place.
According to the news, it sounds like he shouldn’t have been let out of prison in the first place. 20+ offenses as well. Should have been shipped off to fight a war with a spork.
McSweeney had other repeated accusations of domestic abuse before this, he got away with it. He was also a serial stalker. This murder is the consequences of misogynist hate crime not being taken seriously.
In February 2022, parliament rejected a bill that would have meant that sex and gender based hate crimes would formally be recorded as hate crimes. Take a good look at who shot the bill down.
It’s not a lot is it? Considering this cretin hunted down a human being in the street like a wild animal.