Comments on: Hendy-Freegard revisited

By: Shimky

Shimky — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:19:00 +0000

I have been manipulated before by a "good friend". It leaves you feeling very angry at - not your own stupidity - but rather the evilness of the person who pretended to be a friend.

If I knew that I could get away with it 100%, I would kill the bastard very, very slowly. Or better still, I'd leave him for infinity in some very painful, physically totally incapacitated state but with his mind fully functional. And then I'd visit him regularly and p.ss on his face.

And f.ck what that makes me.

By: mac3658

mac3658 — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:16:00 +0000

This guy threatened people posing as a law enforcement agent. Responding to such a threat isn’t a matter of stupidity as some have suggested. It’s fear. This guy used fear to manipulate. That’s not capitalism, that’s totalitarianism.

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 04:26:00 +0000

Blindingly obvious point:

a much longer sentence for conning idiots than some other utter psychopaths have got for murdering totally innocent people

Since the UK has a mandatory life sentence for murder it cannot be true that if H-F gets a life sentence he'll be sentenced to a longer term than people get for murder.

By: JuliaM

JuliaM — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 03:48:00 +0000

"..surely the sensible thing to do is to make sure that the murdering psychos go to prison for long enough"

Exactly! If this happened, the disconnect between this case & the others wouldn't be so glaring.

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:16:00 +0000

Jesus, now I agree with Larry. I must be ill.

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:00:00 +0000

Julia - yes his victims were gullible and stupid, but he deliberately and sadistically preyed on that fact to exploit them for his own purposes, just as assuredly as cowboy builders prey on old women.

Anyway if

what galls here, in this particular case, is that he seems to face a much longer sentence for conning idiots than some other utter psychopaths have got for murdering totally innocent people who did NOT have anything to do with their fate.

then surely the sensible thing to do is to make sure that the murdering psychos go to prison for long enough, not to cut the prison time of this guy.

Not that I accept your picture of hoards of mass-murderers roaming the streets after having been let off with a slap on the wrist and a few hours community service, mind you...

By: JuliaM

JuliaM — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 09:35:00 +0000

"..these people were victims of his dishonesty, not their own stupidity."

No, I think their stupidity played a BIG part in it...!

While I'm normally an enthusiastic hanger & flogger (slightly to the right of Gengis Khan on crime & punishment) I think what galls here, in this particular case, is that he seems to face a much longer sentence for conning idiots than some other utter psychopaths have got for murdering totally innocent people who did NOT have anything to do with their fate. That's just wrong..

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:32:00 +0000

Jez,

It's not sunny, either. How about forcing a name-change to "Lurid Migraine-Trigger"?

I can't believe people are agreeing with me. Am I on the right blog?

By: N.I.B.

N.I.B. — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:28:00 +0000

Jez – Microsoft can be quite particular about their software licenses…

By: Jez

Jez — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:21:00 +0000

Squander Two: How about going after "Sunny Delight" under the Trades Descriptions Act? It's pretty far from delightful.

NIB: I'm intrigued to hear about the "direct action"

John B: Sorry - I'm with the others. Reading the first case about the guy Hendy-Freegard sent to Manchester to buy a can opener was very funny indeed, and the "victim" didn't lose anything but his pride. The other cases were sickening, and HF deserves everything he gets.