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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: theking on September 20, 2019, 05:26:04 PM
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..Much simpler than this mess IMO ???:
Son who threw his terminally ill 79-year-old mother to her death spared jail
A teacher who threw his terminally ill 79-year-old mother to her death from a first-floor balcony spared jail as judge describes it as a "mercy killing".
A "devoted, loving son" who killed his dying mother to end her suffering by dropping her from a first floor fire escape at a care home has been given a suspended jail term.
Robert Knight, 53, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his 79-year-old mother June at an earlier hearing at Basildon Crown Court.
The languages teacher had denied murder and was cleared by a jury.
Judge Samantha Leigh, sentencing Knight at Basildon Crown Court on Friday, told him: "You are someone who acted out of love and desperation.
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Do you think anyone and everyone who committed the same crime would have received the same sentence?
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I don't think so which is why I think death with dignity should become a universal law so those that can't bare their terminal illness and pain can choose to die in dignity as well as a more humane way than being thrown from the balcony.