Sentence was the right one

IT is a good decision by the Manchester Crown Court to realise who was the guilty party as in the excessive force used on rugby player Joe Sharratt in his altercation with some bouncers who ejected him from a Manchester night club. (MEN, July 18).

It is of course tragic that Joe Sharratt has now sustained life changing injuries to his person and has been advised by doctors not to play rugby ever again. So that once again we have an example of the worst kind of behaviour which has resulted in a young 18-year-old victim who now has to live the rest of his life whilst having to endure a significantly reduced quality of lifetime experience.

And this crime has not occurred in some brutal dictatorial regime (where unfortunately residents may come to expect gross unfairness to keep on happening). It has happened in our beloved city of Manchester.

I realise that there are also other crimes that happen in Manchester from time to time. But, I merely highlight this one particular event in the hope that none of us will merely accept the bad deeds that keep on happening with the attitude that because they keep on happening we should not keep on trying to find a solution that would one day greatly diminish the flawed thinking that leads to violent crimes from reoccurring!

And it’s worthwhile bearing in mind that a great deal of inappropriate thoughts that lead to people becoming heated are generally often caused by flawed thinking which then results in misunderstandings – a process that can lead to violence being committed; because the human brain does not come with any guarantee that it will always be able to think rationally. And it can happen that any one of us in certain circumstances can grow up with our wires crossed in some way. Though thank G-d that sort of occurrence is something that is fairly rare in happening. As most people do not grow up in this ways.

Howard Gardner, Salford