No fool like an old fool
I attended the Supreme Court today for the sentencing of a thug who would be three times the body weight of his victim…A real coward you would have to say, a thug and a women basher.
This thug who lied his way through interview after interview with police finally fessed up and pleaded guilty to the brutal attack on a defenseless woman.
I have to say this would have been a plea bargain by our penny pinching Judicial System. This scumbag to be in the Supreme Court would have been charged with attempted murder by the police in the first place.
November 25 was of course White Ribbon Day, all about violence against women. But to hear that silly old twit Justice Betty King at the sentencing you would think it was about an unpaid parking fine, not attempted murder!
Old Judge Betty is past her use by date (a thought that went through my head years ago). She went through the usual woffle you hear from a lot of these old defense barristers who become judges.
It is very embarrassing when you hear fools like King talk about the likes of Scott Alan Murdoch…How he drew a hard card in life, had depression, was a victim of sexual assaults from a now deceased uncle and a lot more that I won’t bore you with.
In other words, the same old bullshit that we have all heard before.
One of Judge Betty’s classics was when she said the delay in going to trial would have been hard on the scumbag, then as an after thought she also mentioned the victim.
Well Judge Betty there is no fool like and old fool, and I’ve got to say with that statement you proved that theory correct! The scumbag was there by self invitation unlike the victim.
Hey Betty, don’t you think it’s time to retire? That’s Just a thought that crosses my mind every time you hand down a sentence……..
Scott Alan Murdoch jailed for at least five years for an attack on a woman he met on chat line Hot Gossip
* Norrie Ross
* From: Herald Sun
* November 25, 2009 1:26PMA MAN who savagely bashed and stabbed a woman he met on a chat line called Hot Gossip was jailed for a minimum of five years today.
Justice Betty King said Scott Alan Murdoch went to the victim’s home, and after she refused to have sex with him he launched a ferocious attack on her.
He stabbed her twice in the neck and once on the cheek and hit her head with a heavy paperweight before leaving her unconscious and stealing her handbag and car.
In her Supreme Court sentence, Justice King told Murdoch, 32, his unprovoked attack left his victim with severe physical injuries that had blighted her life.
Justice King said Karen Cheeseman was a single mum on a disability support pension when she was contacted in the early hours of the morning on Hot Gossip by “Scott from Pakenham”.
Ms Cheeseman and Murdoch exchanged text messages and she agreed to drive from Berwick to Pakenham to meet him, but he did not turn up.
Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar.
End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar.
The judge said Ms Cheeseman was later contacted again by Murdoch and had driven to Pakenham and took him to her home.
Justice King said the pair watched television and each had a single mixed drink and Murdoch started to roam around her home looking into rooms.
Murdoch then tried to kiss and cuddle Ms Cheeseman and asked her for sex.
When she refused he asked her to take him back to Pakenham but she did not want to drive because she had been drinking.
Justice King said Ms Cheeseman became concerned at Murdoch’s behaviour and as she tried to call 000 he attacked her, throttling her, stabbing her and bashing her with a paperweight.
Justice King said the mother of two was unconscious for some time and spent six weeks in hospital.
She has to wear a leg brace, her left arm is “dead” and she suffers vision problems that prevent her from driving.
Murdoch, who had previously pleaded guilty to charges of intentionally causing serious injury and theft, received a maximum prison term of seven years.
Outside court Ms Cheeseman said she believed the sentence should have been longer.