A Christian who battered his cross-dressing gay teenage flatmate in his sleep and left a claw hammer embedded in his brain has been sent to a high security hospital after being found guilty of attempted murder.

Connor Huntley suffered β€˜life-changing’ injuries and a chunk of his skull was removed after the brutal homophobic attack in the house he shared with Joseph Williams.

His 21-year-old attacker was sentenced to 14 years in prison at the Old Bailey today, with the judge saying it was only the skill of medics who prevented Mr Huntley from dying.

Williams, who came from a Catholic background, had previously made disparaging remarks about gay men, whilst in contrast Mr Huntley was openly gay and often wore women’s clothes and make-up.

The court heard Williams picked up a hammer and went into the bedroom of his sleeping flatmate, who was just 18 at the time, in Margate on May 28 last year.

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Holy shit, some people are despicable human beings.

Damn, that's fucked up. The sad thing is that people like that never change.

The real question is, how did these two become flatmates?

*shrug*

Article doesn't say.

14 years? Give the cunt 25.

14 years? Give the cunt 25.

It's all based on the count of felony

Attempted murder is classified as a class 2 felony (1 being the worst type of crime) and because the crime was committed with a deadly weapon, the minimum is 7 years with the maximum of 21. 25 years would be out of the ball park, unless if it somehow was a class 1 felony

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His 21-year-old attacker was sentenced to 14 years in prison at the Old Bailey today, with the judge saying it was only the skill of medics who prevented Mr Huntley from dying.

Not saying 14 years isn't a significant punishment, but the guy bludgeoned his roommate for being gay, requiring part of the guys skull to be removed. Dude should have gotten a bit more time.

14 years is a ridiculous amount of time and will probably institutionalise the guy.

Quote from: Rocketman287 on September 09, 2014, 01:22:35 AM

He tried to kill this guy.
Give him the death penalty.

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inb4deathpenaltyiswrong

deathpenaltyiswrong

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