Oxford University student avoids custodial sentence after stabbing boyfriend

[Artaxerxes]

It looks a bit pointy and all but it's still not really conducive to stabbing, is it? The point is all the wrong shape to open anything up very easily and then the serrations are going to cause friction. You're going to have a tough time stabbing a piece of paper with that, let alone something as tough as a human body.

I urge you to go and buy one and give it a good plunge into something (not a human, just covering my own back here)

You can do remarkably large amounts of damage to people with not much force when it comes to knives.

 

[Idris2002]

I urge you to go and buy one and give it a good plunge into something (not a human, just covering my own back here)

You can do remarkably large amounts of damage to people with not much force when it comes to knives.

I think it was on here that I read that there's no safe place to stab someone - not even Artaxerxes well-covered back.

Even something like the Gluteus Maximus has arteries in it that you shouldn't let be cut, unless you want to have a bad time.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I think it was on here that I read that there's no safe place to stab someone - not even Artaxerxes well-covered back.

Even something like the Gluteus Maximus has arteries in it that you shouldn't let be cut, unless you want to have a bad time.

Shoulder injuries are literally the fucking worse, you have any idea how delicate those are? Action heroes shrug them off like nothing but you get a knife or a bullet in there it is going to hurt like an absolute motherfucker and quite probably kill you.

 

[Idris2002]

Shoulder injuries are literally the fucking worse, you have any idea how delicate those are? Action heroes shrug them off like nothing but you get a knife or a bullet in there it is going to hurt like an absolute motherfucker and quite probably kill you.

Spock didn't apply his death grips there for nothing.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

At least we know she won't be too squeamish about open heart surgery.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Oxford student Lavinia Woodward 'may avoid jail' for knife attack - BBC News

Defence barrister James Sturman QC had argued it would be "almost impossible" for Woodward to become a surgeon once she had disclosed her conviction to employers.

wtf?

 

[editor]

Oxford student Lavinia Woodward 'may avoid jail' for knife attack - BBC News



wtf?

There's already a thread on this. Why are you describing her as a "junkie" by the way?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

There's already a thread on this. Why are you describing her as a "junkie" by the way?

Couldn't find it.

Junkie is a very common term for a person addicted to drugs.

 

[DotCommunist]

the other thread has discussion on how to stab someone with a breadknife

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

the other thread has discussion on how to stab someone with a breadknife

That's very useful. Found it now, tried looking at Oxford and nowt come up...

 

[Wilf]

I saw this earlier and thought some of the judges comments were at the level of pure trolling or some kind of Chris Morris satire:

"To prevent this extraordinary, able young lady from following her long-held desire to enter the profession she wishes to, would be a sentence which would be too severe," he said.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

tbh my wtf would be directed more at all the occasions when this kind of consideration is not given. Strikes me that this is a good way for things to work - the pity being that it is not available to everyone, rather than that it has been made available to her.\

Too many people's lives are ruined by unnecessary prison sentences.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

tbh my wtf would be directed more at all the occasions when this kind of consideration is not given. Strikes me that this is a good way for things to work - the pity being that it is not available to everyone, rather than that it has been made available to her.\

Too many people's lives are ruined by unnecessary prison sentences.

Oddly it is ONLY available to those of a similar perceived level in society as a judge. Can't think why.

 

[Raheem]

The BBC article on this posted above has a comment from a barrister suggesting that this isn't as outrageous as it might appear. It seems she's been told to go straight before her next appearance and whether or not she gets a custodial sentence will mainly depend on that.

I think the judge would do that for anyone wherever they came from in the right circumstances. I don't know if her future prospects are the critical factor in this.

It may be that she's getting lenient treatment, but maybe not as obviously as the headlines suggest.

 

[bi0boy]

tbh my wtf would be directed more at all the occasions when this kind of consideration is not given. Strikes me that this is a good way for things to work - the pity being that it is not available to everyone, rather than that it has been made available to her.\

Too many people's lives are ruined by unnecessary prison sentences.

Anecdote alert. Is there evidence that it is not available to everyone? I often read of magistrates giving burglars a suspended sentence for their 57th crime because they've recently entered a drugs rehab program or whatever. Obviously there are times it doesn't happen too, but there are fewer privileged people and they do tend to make the news.

 

[Spymaster]

Too many people's lives are ruined by unnecessary prison sentences.

There's nothing unnecessary about imprisoning twats who stab people.

It should be a mandatory 2 years and go up from there.

 

[Fez909]

There's nothing unnecessary about imprisoning twats who stab people.

It should be a mandatory 2 years and go up from there.

Any evidence it helps stop future stabbings?

 

[emanymton]

tbh my wtf would be directed more at all the occasions when this kind of consideration is not given. Strikes me that this is a good way for things to work - the pity being that it is not available to everyone, rather than that it has been made available to her.\

Too many people's lives are ruined by unnecessary prison sentences.

To be fair, I think the main point being made by most people is the unequal treatment. What should be the appropriate punishment is a separate issue really.

Mind you her name and photo being all over the news is an additional level of punishment i suppose.

 

[Spymaster]

Any evidence it helps stop future stabbings?

Probably. But who cares?

 

[Fez909]

Probably. But who cares?

I do.

I don't want to pay taxes to take away rights from people if it's ineffective.

 

[DotCommunist]

lads just lucky it wasn't amanda knox brandishing the ironmongery. Then he would have been in real trouble

 

[Spymaster]

I do.

I don't want to pay taxes to take away rights from people if it's ineffective.

Ok. I couldn't give a fuck about the rights of people who stab others.

 

[Wilf]

Oddly it is ONLY available to those of a similar perceived level in society as a judge. Can't think why.

"To prevent this extraordinary, able young lady from following her long-held desire to enter the profession she wishes become a welder would be a sentence which would be too severe," he said.

 

[Raheem]

lads just lucky it wasn't amanda knox brandishing the ironmongery. Then he would have been in real trouble

Bit harsh. She's gone almost a decade without stabbing anyone. A credit to the Italian prison system.

 

[Plumdaff]

To get on the nursing register you need a written certificate of good character, I think she'd be unlikely to obtain one if doctors need one too. Mind you nurses tend to be less posh so need more watching.

Plus any NHS employer would run a DBS. Private or overseas, and even then I think she'd struggle.

 

[Wilf]

To get on the nursing register you need a written certificate of good character, I think she'd be unlikely to obtain one if doctors need one too. Mind you nurses tend to be less posh so need more watching.

Plus any NHS employer would run a DBS. Private or overseas, and even then I think she'd struggle.

"Please provide details of your stabby experience in the box below"

 

[equationgirl]

Please can you correct the title J Ed - this is not affluenza and she's at bloody Oxford.

 

[J Ed]

Please can you correct the title J Ed - this is not affluenza and she's at bloody Oxford.

I can't do it, I think a mod has to

 

[Raheem]

To get on the nursing register you need a written certificate of good character, I think she'd be unlikely to obtain one if doctors need one too. Mind you nurses tend to be less posh so need more watching.

Plus any NHS employer would run a DBS. Private or overseas, and even then I think she'd struggle.

Another reason why the media angle on the case is probably not right. Even if the judge spares her from prison, it won't make that much difference to potential employers, because she's still going to have a conviction for GBH on her record.

 

[equationgirl]

I can't do it, I think a mod has to

Ok will page one...