Cricket murderors freed!

He and his son were confronted by a group of about 20 boys at a leisure centre in Erith, Kent, the jury was told.

When he asked the boys to go away, he was pelted with stones, rocks and pieces of wood. One missile, described as "half a brick", hit Mr Norton on the side of the head and he collapsed with a heart attack. His cheekbone had been fractured and he lay dying in a pool of blood.

Yesterday their barrister, Mark Wall QC, challenged the "safety" of the manslaughter convictions at the Court of Appeal and argued that Mr Norton's death could not be laid at the boys' door.

mynah wrote:So stoning a man and - at the very least - breaking his cheekbone is not a punishable offence? Surely that is the call for those who don't agree with the verdict to take up their rocks and march to Kent...

He ordered the boys' release on bail while remitting the question of sentences for the violent disorder offences to the original trial judge.

Dello wrote:

mynah wrote:So stoning a man and - at the very least - breaking his cheekbone is not a punishable offence? Surely that is the call for those who don't agree with the verdict to take up their rocks and march to Kent...

He ordered the boys' release on bail while remitting the question of sentences for the violent disorder offences to the original trial judge.

mynah wrote:

Dello wrote:

mynah wrote:So stoning a man and - at the very least - breaking his cheekbone is not a punishable offence? Surely that is the call for those who don't agree with the verdict to take up their rocks and march to Kent...

He ordered the boys' release on bail while remitting the question of sentences for the violent disorder offences to the original trial judge.

You don't have "culpable homicide" in British law? (Meaning, in South African law, causing death through an action which the perpetrator should have known threatened the life of the victim, even if the intent was not to do so.)

mynah wrote:Don't see why the conviction was overruled, then.