I just read the scottish sun and there is a story tilted: OAP jailed after poaching 43 years ago..... i think this is horrendous , just wondering what everone else thinks??

Here is a link to the story: OAP jailed after poaching 43 years ago | The Sun |Home Scotland|Scottish News

The whole situation lacks a common sense approach. A guy at 78 with health problems shouldn't be imprisoned it's inhuman.

BK

Totally agree, when you see the sentencing policy for other offences this is madness.

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If I read the article correctly, he was not jailed for poaching 43 years ago but for breaking an order that still stands.

He also had the opportunity to avoid jail by saying he would obey the judgement. I don't think the man is totally faultless.

The offer of clemency was to forgive this incident if he would obey. But he refused. It seems to me that there was no alternative other than to have a judge remove the order, which he said he could not afford.

Any normal person of his age would have approached the son and asked permission to go along the river with his grandchildren. But NOOOOOO, he couldn't do that. He chooses to picket the son and provoke a test of wills. That man is an ASS, an elderly ASS but an ASS non the less.

I don't think anyone can flaunt the law, but that is just me. In the colonies, we have a saying that states. "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime."

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Having read the article, if it is true they, should throw the key away...

Poachers deserve every punishment they get and more.

richard

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Who resides on the right bank of the Derbyshire Wye and is lulled to sleep each night by the mutterings of a weir, dreaming that "When the rivers and their inhabitants come first, we ALL win..."

I think anyone who gets too 65 should be able to fish any where he whats to.
hes payed his does.leave him alone if anything just tell him not to do it again.
phil

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stop buying bottled water we have,nt got enuff to fish in now so stop it get the water companies to do there job and clean the water every where!!!!

I believe actions can real the truth over a lie. So I looked at the actions rather than the words.

1) Are the actions described the actions of a grandfather that wanted to take his grandchildren to the river or a bitter old man wanting to provoke a fight.

2) What would a person who really was interested in permission to take his grand children do - Ask or Picket?

3) What would a bitter old man wanting to provoke a fight do - Ask or Picket?

4) What would a old man wanting to spend more time with his grandchildren do when offered to be set free - Obey or Refuse?

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What is the logic behind this astonishing remark?

The Law applies to all of us and so it should. The idea that just because someone has reached a certain age they should be able to ignore the law is crazy. Anyway he was told not to do it again 43 years ago. Prison is too good for him. He should be given some publicly humiliating community service, which would also teach him not to try and use publicity stunts to reverse an order of the court.

richard

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My only criticism to this excellent post is that he is not really an old man yet.

richard

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Who resides on the right bank of the Derbyshire Wye and is lulled to sleep each night by the mutterings of a weir, dreaming that "When the rivers and their inhabitants come first, we ALL win..."

One thing I do know is his poaching past was not really focused on.
The attention to the point he was banned for LIFE was rather vague, I mean what if this guy single handedly killed say a 100 nesting females????
Jail the guy ?? nah don't think so, think thats way over the top.
3 months jail for tresspassing its quite simply absurd.

"life" for murder usually means around 8 to 10 years, ffs have some common sense, the ruling was made 40+ years ago