marlon king sent down for 18 months

[Geri]

Apparently Marlon King has quite a record of previous convictions, including a couple for violence against women (if the Daily Mirror is to be believed).

Roger Daniells-Smith, prosecuting, said that since the age of 17 the Jamaica international had found himself in the dock on no less than seven previous occasions.

They feature dishonesty, drink driving and other motoring offences, and violence against women. Only one, receiving a stolen £30,000 BMW resulted in prison - 18 months reduced to nine on appeal. Apart from a couple of community penalties, he was invariably fined.

The violence solely involved women, and included common assaults on two he chased through Soho with a belt wrapped round his fist in 2003. Three years later he was convicted of threatening behaviour after slapping another woman on her bottom and head and then spitting at her when police arrived.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st...aulting-student-in-nightclub-115875-21782874/

 

[joe 90]

a few years back (when i could still get away with it) me and a mate would sometimes chat up birds by telling them we were footballers. we were savvy enough to say we played for Leyton, Barnet or Brentford (ie no fucker knew better), but the women that bought it, were well up for it more often than not.

not in anyway excusing this cunt, but i could see how actually being a top footballer (and, ahem a millionaire), with a profile and a premiership could go to your head, with the wimmins.

 

[Geri]

Sure, a lot of them are arrogant and big headed (I guess - most of the ones I've met were lovely) but not many of them go round punching women in the face when they get rejected. Plus, he is a married man and shouldn't be going around sleazing all over women anyway.

 

[iROBOT]

a few years back (when i could still get away with it) me and a mate would sometimes chat up birds by telling them we were footballers. we were savvy enough to say we played for Leyton, Barnet or Brentford (ie no fucker knew better), but the women that bought it, were well up for it more often than not.

not in anyway excusing this cunt, but i could see how actually being a top footballer (and, ahem a millionaire), with a profile and a premiership could go to your head, with the wimmins.

You, my fiend, can stay

The woman in this comes across well...

"King had struck up a conversation with his victim by saying: "Don't you know who I am? I'm a millionaire."

The court heard she replied: "I don't care who you are; take your millionaire self away from our table."

Lot's of blokes think they're Gods gift...glad one of them's got his comeuppance.

 

[Wilf]

Apparently Marlon King has quite a record of previous convictions, including a couple for violence against women (if the Daily Mirror is to be believed).



http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st...aulting-student-in-nightclub-115875-21782874/

Glad Whelan's sacked him - but it sounds like he signed him knowing all this.

 

[Pickman's model]

Glad Whelan's sacked him - but it sounds like he signed him knowing all this.

surely it would have come out on the application form - unspent criminal convictions etc

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Hughes was done for causing death by dangerous driving and leaving the scene of an accident (one of the three passengers of the car he hit died, the driver was seriously injured), his behaviour was far more cuntish than Kings.

However terrible that is as a thing to do, on all sorts of levels, it is something I could imagine myself doing – if not now, maybe when I was much younger. Hughes fucked up. King is a fuck up. There really is a difference.

 

[Mr Moose]

I'm shocked by this. It has tainted my memories of the play off final against Leeds.

Why? He didn't score and we won 3-0. Us Hornets can't easily pass on the glory.

Arrogant twat though.

 

[1927]

However terrible that is as a thing to do, on all sorts of levels, it is something I could imagine myself doing – if not now, maybe when I was much younger. Hughes fucked up. King is a fuck up. There really is a difference.

No there isn't really there isn't!

 

[Giles]

Anyone who goes around giving it the "do you know who I am" and/or "I'm a millionaire" lines is a tw*t at the best of times.

But to break a girl's nose when she said she wasn't interested is pretty low.

Giles..

 

[littlebabyjesus]

No there isn't really there isn't!

There is. If a friend of mine did what Hughes did, he could still be my friend. If a friend of mine did what King did, he would cease to be my friend.

 

[Geri]

Why? He didn't score and we won 3-0. Us Hornets can't easily pass on the glory.

Arrogant twat though.

All the singing about him, can't remember how the song went now but it ended with "We've got Marlon King!"

Remembered it now:

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

With that many convictions he got off lightly. 2 nights in Pentonville or Brixton, then off to Ford or somewhere equally cushy for 7 or 8 months and he's back in time for next season.

For sexual assault and breaking a woman's nose. Add to that his form, IMO he got off very lightly.

 

[Pickman's model]

Anyone who goes around giving it the "do you know who I am" and/or "I'm a millionaire" lines is a tw*t at the best of times.

But to break a girl's nose when she said she wasn't interested is pretty low.

Giles..

it's pretty bloody low even if she is interested.

 

[1927]

There is. If a friend of mine did what Hughes did, he could still be my friend. If a friend of mine did what King did, he would cease to be my friend.

So killing someone when pissed up and then doing a runner is OK by you?

 

[Pickman's model]

All the singing about him, can't remember how the song went now but it ended with "We've got Marlon King!"

they'll be singing that in prison tonight.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

So killing someone when pissed up and then doing a runner is OK by you?

Nope. And nowhere did I say that.

 

[agricola]

However terrible that is as a thing to do, on all sorts of levels, it is something I could imagine myself doing – if not now, maybe when I was much younger. Hughes fucked up. King is a fuck up. There really is a difference.

If he had stayed at the scene, made some pretence to help the victims of the accident he caused and let the OB breathtest him, I would agree that it was a fuck up. He did not do any of those things.

 

[Mr Moose]

There was a point where you might have thought MK had turned it around at Watford Geri, but then he signed a new contract and even bigger money came calling.

It's atrocious his behaviour, he had every chance to turn it around. His aggression towards women is terrible.

Worshipping footballers is always likely to end in tears.

 

[Pickman's model]

Worshipping footballers is always likely to end in tears.

bloody hanging about near them seems to.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

If he had stayed at the scene, made some pretence to help the victims of the accident he caused and let the OB breathtest him, I would agree that it was a fuck up. He did not do any of those things.

It is a dreadful thing to do, and quite possibly deserving of greater punishment than what King did. It is also, imo, more forgivable. He did a very bad thing – driving when pissed – that resulted in a terrible thing – the death of another – and then panicked and did another terrible thing by fleeing. But it is something I can imagine an otherwise good person doing, especially a young otherwise good person. King's behaviour marks him out as an utter wanker generally, not just when he was doing the terrible things.

 

[Wilf]

Hope his partner takes appropriate action with his bank account and in the divorce court

 

[Pickman's model]

It is a dreadful thing to do, and quite possibly deserving of greater punishment than what King did. It is also, imo, more forgivable. He did a very bad thing – driving when pissed – that resulted in a terrible thing – the death of another – and then panicked and did another terrible thing by fleeing. But it is something I can imagine an otherwise good person doing, especially a young otherwise good person. King's behaviour marks him out as an utter wanker generally, not just when he was doing the terrible things.

yeh if it was good enough for teddy kennedy, it's good enough for littlebabyjesus

 

[littlebabyjesus]

yeh if it was good enough for teddy kennedy, it's good enough for littlebabyjesus

Am I excusing it? Show me where I've said that I think what Hughes did wasn't a dreadful thing.

 

[Pickman's model]

Am I excusing it? Show me where I've said that I think what Hughes did wasn't a dreadful thing.

you've put it on a different level. frankly, if it's a choice between killing someone in a drunken smash and whacking a woman, neither of which are particularly palatable, i think most people would agree that whacking a woman is the lesser evil. it's possible to offer an apology to someone you've hit, and it's not to someone you've killed. you seem to think that whacking a woman in a nightclub's worse than killing someone.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

you seem to think that whacking a woman in a nightclub's worse than killing someone.

Whacking a woman in a nightclub is possibly more telling about you and how you are than killing someone when driving drunk. That was my point, quite explicitly stated, I think.

If you were to give me five minutes out of my body and have my body commit a crime in that time, I'd take whacking a woman over killing a person accidentally.

 

[strung out]

hughes is a fucking twat though. as is king.

 

[Pickman's model]

Whacking a woman in a nightclub is possibly more telling about you and how you are than killing someone when driving drunk. That was my point, quite explicitly stated, I think.

you don't seem to be differing from the substance of my post.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

hughes is a fucking twat though. as is king.

ok. I don't know anything about him beyond what has been said on this thread, which is what I based what I said on.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

you don't seem to be differing from the substance of my post.

Either you're being obtuse or I'm failing to get my point across properly. Either way, I shall leave it there.