Summary

A 15-year-old boy was sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing a stranger, Muhammad Hassam Ali, after a brief conversation in Birmingham city center. The second boy, who stood by, was sentenced to five years in secure accommodation. Ali’s family expressed their grief, describing him as a budding engineer whose life was tragically cut short.

  • barsoap@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    Failure to continuously supervise a 4-year-old you are responsible for is a chargeable offense.

    I’m sorry you’re living under fascism.

    He was found to not have sufficiently diminished capacity to excuse or mitigate his actions.

    Which does not mean that he is responsible for being the way that he is. Criminal insanity is a rare thing and, as a verdict, not actually that preferable. Doubly so criminal insanity as a juvenile, who are, yes, judged by different standards because their brains aren’t there, yet.

    I suggest you learn something about developmental psychology.

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      2 hours ago

      I’m sorry you’re living under fascism.

      Ad hominem.

      Which does not mean that he is responsible for being the way that he is.

      “The way he is” is “responsible for his own actions”. He has been found to have the mental capacity necessary to comprehend the difference between the “rightness” and “wrongness” of jamming a knife into another human.

      Some people should just never see the light of day again. This kid is one of them.