Re: [Melb] FSS Wheelchair incident - 2 years jail

[BEE EFF <mcreely@pnc.com.au>]

What I don't understand is why it was only 2 yrs, It should have been life,
this individual is a murderer who happened to be unsucessful this time.  What
about the next poor f..k in a chair, he probably won't be so lucky, sick of the
revolving door prison system!

Q. What do you know?

A. You can't slam a revolving door(think about it)

Should have fried, gassed or choked the sick f..ker!

Bee Eff

"f.u.i.t.b.e.t" wrote:

> Good he was jailed...good to see justice in your state...up here they would
> probably blame his childhood or some other lame excuse!!!
> "Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
> MnPb6.81988$xW4.635810@news-server.bigpond.net.au">news:MnPb6.81988$xW4.635810@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0101/25/A16393-2001Jan25.shtml
> >
> > Two years' jail over wheelchair incident
> >
> > Source: AAP|Published: Thursday January 25, 12:15 PM
> >
> >
> > MELBOURNE, Jan 25 AAP - A 20-year-old man who pushed a wheelchair-bound
> man
> > on to railway lines as a train approached at Melbourne's Flinders St
> station
> > was today jailed for two years.
> >
> > Aaron Wade Austin was ordered to serve a minimum non-parole term of 20
> > months for pushing 24-year-old Alan McGuirk on to the tracks.
> >
> > Austin pleaded guilty in the County Court to one count of recklessly
> causing
> > serious injury.
> >
> > The court heard Austin lost his temper and reacted impulsively when Mr
> > McGuirk bumped him on the back of his legs with his motorised wheelchair
> > after Austin had made a derogatory remark about his brightly colored
> mohawk
> > hairstyle.
> >
> > Judge James Duggan said Austin grabbed Mr McGuirk, who has cerebral palsy,
> > or the controls of his chair.
> >
> > Austin's actions forced the chair off course and it toppled forward on to
> > the track at Flinders Street station.
> >
> > Austin was 19 at the time of the incident at 4.30pm on August 25 last
> year.
> >
> > The judge said the Crown accepted that Austin did not intend to cause the
> > chair to fall and that Austin was among of the first to jump on to the
> track
> > to help lift Mr McGuirk back onto the platform.
> >
> > But he said Austin "deliberately interfered in an aggressive manner with
> the
> > operation of the chair in a situation of extreme danger".
> >
> > He said Mr McGuirk fractured his right leg, sustained cuts and abrasions
> to
> > his face and body and dislocated his left thumb.
> >
> > The incident had affected him emotionally, physically and psychologically.
> >
> > The court heard a train was just 60 metres down the track when Mr McGuirk
> > fell. It was stopped by people jumping on to the track and flagging it
> down.
> >
> >
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
> > dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au
> > Melbourne public transport FAQ http://www.custard.net.au/melbtrans/
> >
> >