Two American cruise ship passengers found themselves travelling to Westgate instead of New York – after being jailed for attacking a fellow tourist.
Michael Donovan and Joseph Pontieri looked dismayed as Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner said visiting guests and victims should be treated the same as locals and jailed them for 90 days each in Her Majesty’s Westgate Correctional Facility.
Mr. Warner added: “If these two guests were at a club and two local boys had jumped on them and assaulted them, it’s no difference whatsoever!”
After the court hearing, their lawyer, Llewellyn Peniston later branded the sentence “extraordinary” and said he would appeal. Donovan, 34, and Pontieri, 29, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to Christopher Emanuel, 38, in an attack on Front Street, Hamilton, on Thursday.
Crown counsel Cindy Clarke told Magistrates’ Court the victim, a US citizen, had arrived in Bermuda on the Norwegian Crown cruise ship, along with the two defe
2006-10-15 05:18:49 · 6 answers · asked by WORD UP G 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
you should obey the rules of the land........does not matter where they are from they should be punished.
Personally feel its about flipping time that people learned that they can not go off to some place and do what they want and get away with it, I have to obey the laws of the USA as a citizen from the UK regardless of what I think of the laws...........
2006-10-15 05:23:50 · answer #1 · answered by candy g 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they have been for years. bypass lower back to WWII. the eastern have been nicely standard for their procedures of "interrogation". Later the Vietnamese have been experts at torture. Ask John McCain. bypass lower back added to early Roman cases. The Romans could crucify human beings on a bypass. It become'nt a quick punishment it become a sluggish bloody death. the only ingredient that brings this to the front is the media.it quite is not something new in simple terms greater effectual publicized. look at the yankee prisoners that are captured by utilising terrorists. they are nowhere close to taken care of in accordance to Geneva convention regulations. females have been raped and tortured. The ineffective squaddies they discover have been crushed have broken limbs and then they are beheaded. yet morons opt for to assert we are merciless and inhumane. we are in simple terms now catching as much as the way our human beings have been taken care of for years.
2016-11-23 12:58:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fighting on a cruise ship? hhmmmm. Is this a trick Q or were these people not having a good time? Damn!
2006-10-15 05:22:02 · answer #3 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They should be punished according to the laws of the land that the crime was comitted in.
Otherwise you have mayhem where people have to be executed in countries where there is no capital punishment because of where they live.
2006-10-15 05:22:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh, they should've been promptly strung up on a lamppost down on the main drag, most definitely!
These weak, sissy judges - what IS the world coming to, anyway?!?
2006-10-15 05:25:11 · answer #5 · answered by Walter Ridgeley 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And your question is?
2006-10-15 05:45:41 · answer #6 · answered by Jackie J 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋