Killed for a parking space!

[Paul]

BBC

The husband of a woman who died after being attacked over a parking space row has condemned the judge's decision not to jail the culprit.
Carol McMillan, of Spey Walk, Holytown, Lanarkshire, admitted the culpable homicide of Ann Whittle, 58, on 15 August last year in Glasgow.
The 34-year-old was given probation and community service.
Norman Whittle said McMillan should have received a five year sentence for causing the death of his wife.
The High Court in Dunfermline heard that McMillan and Mrs Whittle clashed over a space at a car boot sale at Blochairn Road, Glasgow.
Co-accused, Charles Freeburn, has had his sentence deferred after he admitted assaulting Mr Whittle.
During the attack, McMillan grabbed Mrs Whittle by the hair and kicked her three times on the head.
Her victim suffered a heart attack, collapsed and later died in hospital.

Am I the only one that thinks dragging someone to the ground by the hair and then kicking her 3 times in the head is a strange tactic for someone to use if they were not a violent person normally?

Passing sentence, Lady Dorrian told McMillan: "This is a tragic case in which your irresponsible and unbridled actions led to the death of an innocent woman.
"That is something that you will have to live with for the rest of your life.
"You were not to know that Mrs Whittle suffered from an undiagnosed heart condition which was destabilised by the physical and mental stress caused by your attack on her."
"Your actions were unprovoked and even without the underlying condition this would have been a nasty assault resulting in deep bruising and abrasions."

Does that mean if the victim had known of her condition and had informed her attacker that the sentencing would have been different? There is no excuse for kicking a defenceless person in the head 3 times!

[Ramrod]

Amazing.......kicking someone in the head ought to be seen as attempted murder

[Paul]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Amazing.......kicking someone in the head ought to be seen as attempted murder

My thoughts exactly, especially if there are repeated blows involved
Oh and she got 3 years probation and 240 hours community service, how is that justified? You'd get longer for not paying your bl**dy council tax for feks sake

[Damien]

Should have gotten manslaughter....

Do we know how hard the kicks where?

[Rob M]

Originally Posted by Damien

Should have gotten manslaughter....

Do we know how hard the kicks where?

Hard enough:

"Your actions were unprovoked and even without the underlying condition this would have been a nasty assault resulting in deep bruising and abrasions."

[Damien]

yeah, that should have been manslaughter

[Jules]

Lock her up! She wanted to really hurt this person otherwise she wouldn't have kicked her in the head!

[Roy MM]

Bloody hell GBH at least.

[Russ B]

I'm not defending or excusing her actions one little bit but what I think they mean is she may not have been a violent person before but road rage is known to turn even the most placid person into a primal rage. People are known to completely lose it when it comes to cars.

[Rob M]

Perhaps she got confused.....

Car Boot Sale / Car Boot Head

Easily done.....

[Derek S]

An utter joke.

An unprovoked attack on someone with her partner holding the victims husband back and they get away with it.

Literally getting away with murder

[Kliro]

Definately seems like she should have received manslaughter from the evidence provided by the newspaper.

Hope this wont make people think they can get away with cases of road rage....

A very, very sad case. Justice appears to be seriously lacking in this case.

[allieyoung666]

Maybe somebody might do the same to her and see how see likes it, except I would trap her head in the car boot and slam it on her head numerous times.

[Tuftus]

If anything this does nothing but highlight the justice sytem that is in place in this country to be an utter ass.