This murdered child

15th anniversary of young reece being murdered

Wouldnt be shocked to hear some misguided thug thinks a child is fair game in some revenge attack

59 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Will he get done for murder if he didnt intend to shoot and kill her?

Unlikely.
Manslaughter for the kid, attempted murder for the bloke.

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

Will he get done for murder if he didnt intend to shoot and kill her?

If it can be proven there was an intent to cause death or serious injury, a person can still be convicted of murder even if the person killed was not the intended target.

3 hours ago, gonzo said:

Will he get done for murder if he didnt intend to shoot and kill her?

Article says arrested for murder and two counts of attempted murder

So i guess the angle is he went out with the intention to kill the bloke and anyone who got in his way 

Just hope he ends up in the same cell has Charles Bronson, who was sent down for 40 years for pinching a tin of soup.

On 26/08/2022 at 10:42, gonzo said:

Will he get done for murder if he didnt intend to shoot and kill her?

Well it’ll be the mens rea element to murder. He shot his gun intending to kill will be the prosecution’s case. So the victim wil be irrelevant. Transferred malice, the intent to harm and the harm caused, the actual recipient being different from the intended one is what a prosecutor will argue  

His defence will be his intention was not to kill a child - so no mens rea - and go for manslaughter, that is if there is a charge of course. 

8 minutes ago, Morizio said:

Well it’ll be the mens rea element to murder. He shot his gun intending to kill will be the prosecution’s case. So the victim wil be irrelevant. Transferred malice, the intent to harm and the harm caused, the actual recipient being different from the intended one is what a prosecutor will argue  

His defence will be his intention was not to kill a child - so no mens rea - and go for manslaughter, that is if there is a charge of course. 

His defence may well be that he wasn't intending to kill anyone and that he was firing to merely frighten/injure a fellow drug dealer.

26 minutes ago, Traf said:

His defence may well be that he wasn't intending to kill anyone and that he was firing to merely frighten/injure a fellow drug dealer.

Who he was chasing?

1 hour ago, Traf said:

His defence may well be that he wasn't intending to kill anyone and that he was firing to merely frighten/injure a fellow drug dealer.

If it is it will fail.

Even if his intent was to cause injury rather than kill it will make no difference.

5 hours ago, Traf said:

His defence may well be that he wasn't intending to kill anyone and that he was firing to merely frighten/injure a fellow drug dealer.

It could and what I think will be interesting is how this case develops