Man jailed for slashing
neighbour's throat
Last year in January Jamie Edney, 36 years old slashed the
throat of his neighbour Mr Hobbs. How did this happen, well Mr Hobbs was
banging on the door of Edney’s house. Edney opened the door while
holding a knife in his hand. Mr hobbs
accused edney for having an affair with his girlfriend and that is when
Edney slashed his throat. Judge Longman
said. "I accept that you did not go
looking for trouble. It was not begun by you. It was Mr Hobbs who came to your
door and he did so in a temper. To answer the door holding the knife was asking
for trouble ... you selected the knife intending to intimidate’’.Edney has to go to jail for five-and-a-half years.
A
five-and-a-half-year prison sentence is really too low. People do awful things
without thinking of the consequences. Edney went to the door holding a knife in
his hand, so he knew obviously that there was something wrong, because Mr Hobbs
was banging on the door. Edney is not a child, so he knows what the
consequences are if you stab someone or in his case slashing someone’s throat.
He should not have gone to the door holding a knife. That is asking for
trouble…. I don’t know maybe he was just scared and reacted in that way, but
that is no excuse for slashing someone’s throat.
If he is capable of cutting one mans throath I think he will be capable of doing other things as well. Five years is a really low punishment for someone who has killed another human being. He could have chosen not to open the door, or he could have called the police if he was too scared. He shouldnt have taken a knife, because the moment he took the knife he knew he was going to stab someone.
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