Talk Hearts Daily News Thread

**Nive la France** · 03-10-2026, 08:49 AM

Going to sound like a boomer here, but those sentences are a joke Monty Oh Well

**Del-icious** · 03-10-2026, 08:52 AM

(03-09-2026, 10:17 PM)Shuto Makino Wrote: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r1kmz614po

South Wales has fall-oh wait.

Won’t be a peep from the folk wanting to keep our communities safe.

**CritchSmile** · 03-10-2026, 11:02 AM

(03-09-2026, 10:17 PM)Shuto Makino Wrote: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r1kmz614po

South Wales has fall-oh wait.

That is genuinely disturbing reading.

Radicalised young men committing cold-blooded murder.

**Kashinda** · 03-10-2026, 02:04 PM

Joey Barton has battered somebody with a baseball bat. Up in court today, hope he gets the jail

**Sarkozabal** · 03-10-2026, 02:18 PM

(03-10-2026, 02:04 PM)Kashinda Wrote: Joey Barton has battered somebody with a baseball bat. Up in court today, hope he gets the jail

He’s also just been ordered to pay Eni Aluko £340 grand in legal costs Titter

**Del-icious** · (Edited 03-10-2026, 02:23 PM by Del-icious.)

(03-10-2026, 02:18 PM)Sarkozabal Wrote: He’s also just been ordered to pay Eni Aluko £340 grand in legal costs

**Zizou** · 03-10-2026, 02:59 PM

Is he not currently on a suspended sentence? Surely getting the jail.

There's a voice note going about twitter and it seems he's absolutely done the guy in with a baseball bat. Psychopath.

Schteg · (Edited 03-10-2026, 06:06 PM by Schteg.)

Owner of the vape shop had £10k in unpaid business rates and wasn’t on a register of legally operating vape shops. Monto

Fair play, must have been hard to weed them out next door to Central fucking Station.

**Shuto Makino** · 03-11-2026, 01:03 PM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9g...20released.

Grab your flags everyone. Someone has been stabbed in Wester Hailes for only the second time ever.

King Kebab · 03-11-2026, 08:52 PM

How does that change anything Mak?
You're basically saying it's ok to let freaks into the country, because we already have freaks in the country.

**Del-icious** · 03-11-2026, 08:54 PM

(03-11-2026, 01:03 PM)Shuto Makino Wrote: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9g...20released.

Grab your flags everyone. Someone has been stabbed in Wester Hailes for only the second time ever.

The usual suspects

**Shuto Makino** · 03-11-2026, 10:25 PM

(03-11-2026, 08:52 PM)King Kebab Wrote: How does that change anything Mak?
You're basically saying it's ok to let freaks into the country, because we already have freaks in the country.

What I'm saying is that THE IMMIGRINTS are not, as a population, any more likely to be 'freaks' than the people who are already here and that any argument to the effect that 'we need to prevent immigration because of stabbings' is therefore, at best, misinformed.

I do agree, of course, that we need to open more safe, legal routes for immigrants to enter the country, which would allow us to screen for 'freaks' in a way that isn't possible when they can only do so illegally. That is something we both agree on.

**Del-icious** · 03-14-2026, 04:36 PM

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1FdEcMfEXM/

The usual suspects.

4 year Crowe

**Floyd** · 03-14-2026, 04:41 PM

(03-14-2026, 04:36 PM)Del-icious Wrote: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1FdEcMfEXM/

The usual suspects.

4 year

He’ll serve less than half of it as well.

**Big Physical Acey** · 03-14-2026, 09:32 PM

(03-14-2026, 04:41 PM)Floyd Wrote: He’ll serve less than half of it as well.

No he won't.

**CritchSmile** · 03-14-2026, 09:37 PM

Big Physical Acey dateline='[url=tel:1773523937' Wrote: 1773523937[/url]']

No he won't.

It’s health and safety gone mad

**CritchSmile** · 03-14-2026, 09:39 PM

We’ve been kidded on again, Spittal is a pre-bloom jobber.

**Floyd** · 03-14-2026, 11:25 PM

(03-14-2026, 09:32 PM)Big Physical Acey Wrote: No he won't.

That’s a bonus at least.

**Del-icious** · 03-14-2026, 11:34 PM

(03-14-2026, 09:32 PM)Big Physical Acey Wrote: No he won't.

What is the logic behind the sentencing there?

He’s hit a random boy in the skull and neck with an axe fuelled by racism - how does that only carry 4 year?

**Big Physical Acey** · 03-15-2026, 09:58 PM

I don't have any info about the case in particular beyond the media report here:

https://news.stv.tv/east-central/man-hur...m-with-axe

"Assault to injury and to the danger of life" means that the victim suffered a relatively minor injury, fortunately. The law distinguishes between "injury" and "severe injury", as well as aggravators like "permanent disfigurement / impairment". "To the danger of life" means that the assault could potentially have put the guy's life at risk, as opposed to his life actually being in danger.

The guy "admitted" the offences, meaning that he pled guilty. I suspect he'll have pled at the earliest practical opportunity, meaning that he'll likely have received the maximum sentencing discount of a third. So, it's entirely possible that the "starting point" for the sentence (pre-discount) was 6 years. You have to incentivise guilty pleas or the whole system would break down because everybody would just force the Crown to run trials for every offence.

He's also 22, so the Sentencing Young People guideline applies (basic premise: U25s are thick as mince so they should be held as less culpable than adults with fully-formed brains).