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As they'd both already served six months in pre-sentence detention, he suspended the remaining two and a half years, concluding, "...I propose that each of you be released immediately from further custody." For many members of the public, the sentences caused outrage. At the Age newspaper, letters flooded in from people expressing disappointment at what they viewed as a miscarriage of justice.

One reader called the case a potent cocktail in the current moral climate, in which male ethos equates violence with virility. She wrote... There is no place in the law for a subjective moral bias. It is irrelevant that the perpetrators appeal to be respectable, intelligent young men, or that they believed themselves motivated to apprehend a rapist, or that their unfortunate victims were gay.

One reader called the case a potent cocktail in the current moral climate, in which male ethos equates violence with virility. She wrote... There is no place in the law for a subjective moral bias. It is irrelevant that the perpetrators appeal to be respectable, intelligent young men, or that they believed themselves motivated to apprehend a rapist, or that their unfortunate victims were gay.

One reader called the case a potent cocktail in the current moral climate, in which male ethos equates violence with virility. She wrote... There is no place in the law for a subjective moral bias. It is irrelevant that the perpetrators appeal to be respectable, intelligent young men, or that they believed themselves motivated to apprehend a rapist, or that their unfortunate victims were gay.

The facts of the situation are that in a state of fury, without a single shred of evidence to justify their choice of victim, they engaged in deliberate, sustained physical violence causing grievous bodily harm to one defenseless human being and death to another. These are the facts on which a sentence should be based and a mere six months in remand is grossly inadequate.

The facts of the situation are that in a state of fury, without a single shred of evidence to justify their choice of victim, they engaged in deliberate, sustained physical violence causing grievous bodily harm to one defenseless human being and death to another. These are the facts on which a sentence should be based and a mere six months in remand is grossly inadequate.

The facts of the situation are that in a state of fury, without a single shred of evidence to justify their choice of victim, they engaged in deliberate, sustained physical violence causing grievous bodily harm to one defenseless human being and death to another. These are the facts on which a sentence should be based and a mere six months in remand is grossly inadequate.

David Campbell agreed that the sentences were abysmal. Vielen Dank. Vielen, vielen Dank. Vielen Dank. Untertitelung. BR 2018 Untertitelung. BR 2018 Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020 Untertitelung. BR 2018 Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020 Untertitelung. BR 2018 Vielen Dank. Vielen Dank. Untertitelung. BR 2018 Untertitelung. BR 2018 Vielen Dank.

David Campbell agreed that the sentences were abysmal. Vielen Dank. Vielen, vielen Dank. Vielen Dank. Untertitelung. BR 2018 Untertitelung. BR 2018 Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020 Untertitelung. BR 2018 Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020 Untertitelung. BR 2018 Vielen Dank. Vielen Dank. Untertitelung. BR 2018 Untertitelung. BR 2018 Vielen Dank.

David Campbell agreed that the sentences were abysmal. Vielen Dank. Vielen, vielen Dank. Vielen Dank. Untertitelung. BR 2018 Untertitelung. BR 2018 Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020 Untertitelung. BR 2018 Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020 Untertitelung. BR 2018 Vielen Dank. Vielen Dank. Untertitelung. BR 2018 Untertitelung. BR 2018 Vielen Dank.

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The evening of Thursday December 13 2001 started out like any other for married couple Ken Lee and Jane Showmaker. The two were relaxing at home in the rural town of Early, Iowa, when suddenly at around 7.07pm their pages started frantically beeping.

The evening of Thursday December 13 2001 started out like any other for married couple Ken Lee and Jane Showmaker. The two were relaxing at home in the rural town of Early, Iowa, when suddenly at around 7.07pm their pages started frantically beeping.

The evening of Thursday December 13 2001 started out like any other for married couple Ken Lee and Jane Showmaker. The two were relaxing at home in the rural town of Early, Iowa, when suddenly at around 7.07pm their pages started frantically beeping.

The couple volunteered as emergency medical technicians for the early fire department and the page announced that there had just been a home invasion at a residential address a few doors down. Gunshots had been fired and at least one intruder was injured while another had fled the scene. The showmakers were stunned.

The couple volunteered as emergency medical technicians for the early fire department and the page announced that there had just been a home invasion at a residential address a few doors down. Gunshots had been fired and at least one intruder was injured while another had fled the scene. The showmakers were stunned.

The couple volunteered as emergency medical technicians for the early fire department and the page announced that there had just been a home invasion at a residential address a few doors down. Gunshots had been fired and at least one intruder was injured while another had fled the scene. The showmakers were stunned.

Such an incident was completely out of the ordinary for the small town of roughly 650 residents, where serious crimes were virtually non-existent. They rushed to the property in question, a blue two-story Victorian-style house that they knew was home to married couple Michael and Tracy Roberts and their three young children.