Monday, August 23, 2004
This pisses me off
From today's Dom:
MacMillan was sentenced to 14 years in prison after 17-year-old Jayne Maree McLellan's body was found face down in a stream in the Dunedin suburb of Abbotsford in November 1988.Graphic, horrific, disturbing. It is certainly all of the above. Now here is the first paragraph from the same article:
She had extensive knife cuts to her face, neck and hands, her nipple was nearly bitten off, her lower face was shattered and her skull had multiple fractures from being hit with a concrete post. A river stone had been shoved down her throat to stop her screaming.
A blood-covered MacMillan, 38, was found hiding in nearby bushes. He was later sentenced to 14 years in prison, and was eligible for parole after 10 years.
A man who raped and killed a Dunedin teenager 15 years ago has won $1200 damages for being refused a copy of a letter that claimed he had lured a young girl into a world of perverted sex and bestiality while he was on parole.Less graphic - yup, but equally horrific and disturbing. The Tribunal found that there would have been "some" injury to this monster "...in the form of anxiety or distress at the thought that those who are in a position to influence or decide his future, or his conditions, were aware of information that he was not able to respond to." Not even that justification holds in that his lawyers were given access to the letter in question.
Full article from Stuff: Killer gets $1200 for hurt feelings
Don't go there if you have high blood pressure. I wish this was a joke - but you couldn't make this up.
