Peter Lynch Rip

Any thoughts ...

 

No thoughts whatsoever about this. I will sleep just fine.

 

FAFO

 

WTF

 

I have zero sympathy for violent racists who attack the police and threaten to burn people alive.

 

One less prisoner early release needed now then.

 

Nobody to blame but himself.

 

It's a shame.

I'm from Wath and have known him for a while. He was just a normal working class bloke who loved his family and friends. Always sociable and up for a laugh.

But then he turns up at the Holiday Inn and starts lobbing stuff at police and is right in the thick of things attacking the hotel and racist chanting.

It's not "Two Tier Keir" who has blood on his hands, like various posts on social media are alluding to. Its Farage, Robinson, Tice, Barton, Johnson, Rees-Mogg and the rest of them in the public eye that encourage people to look to immigrants as the cause of their problems when it's really those who are whipping up the racial hatred who are the issue.

So I'll offer condolences to "Linko" and his family. But I just wish he'd have taken a different path.

 

My thoughts are, who the hell is Peter Lynch?

 

His son is in the same block as he was, surprised that hasn’t been mentioned.

 

Sincere condolences to his family.
R.I.P.

 

I had that same thought

 

It is very fair to apportion some blame there but it was Mr Lynch who chose to believe their rhetoric - pointing to a deeper lying sentiment on such matters - and more importantly, not only believed it but chose to use it to act barbarically and violently.

As did his son.

I celebrate no loss of life - but I don’t mourn or sympathise with him whatsoever; I don’t offer sympathy to his son who is from the same cloth.

As for the rest of his family - they have lost somebody and that’s not nice. I have some sympathy for them.

 

If you don't know any different, are unable to think critically, and are drip fed lies and hate then the end result has a decent chance of turning out badly.

2 years 8 months sounds a ******** sentence to me.

 

I’m from Wath too and have known Pete for 40 years…..he wasn’t violent or tried to burn the hotel down….he was shouting at police and holding a placard…..maybe misjudged being there but the sentence was harsh….no previous convictions come on give him community hours or probation……
Peter Lynch sentenced to 30 months in prison for his part in the riots !!!!!
Here are the sentences handed out by the same Judge to to other people.
1, 2 years suspended sentence, to woman caused death by dangerous driving, killed a cyclist.
2, suspended sentences to a man, 5 sex offences against children under age of 15 & 13. The judge refused to allow his name to be disclosed.
My thoughts with Andrea and the family

 

Whilst those sentences may be lenient, it shouldn't have any baring on Peter's sentence. He was charged and pleaded guilty - so accepted that his actions were wrong. As did his son.

It is a grisly end, but we ought to be looking at the root cause. The misinformation and racism that is forced down our throats by certain members in the public eye. There's a Tommy Robinson march planned for this weekend. There'll be arrests and charges no doubt stemming from violence. But who will be in trouble? It won't be Robinson, who'll nip back to Cyrpus or Malta or wherever he lives these days. It'll be the folk who turn up to "peacefully protest" and swallow Robinson's lies and bile.

That's where the fingers need pointing. Those with positions of power and influence who grift and peddle lies for financial gain.

It's a shame people still fall for it, and as we've seen this week, the outcomes can be tragic.

 

I think some responses to this thread are, at best, in very poor taste and if i was an admin i'd be tempted to close it down.

 

I'm in Brampton, and it was obvious as soon as the protest was announced that it was going to end up violent - just like the previous protest in February 2023 - which had attendance from Patriot Alternative, Britain First and other far right groups. It was so obvious that there were lost tribes in the Amazon jungle who could have predicted the outcome. Anyone attending - and not leaving at the first sign of trouble - was *always* going to be punished harshly. He - and his son - made the choice to attend and then they made the choice not to leave when it turned violent.

I'm sorry that this resulted in an unfortunate death, but he (and anyone else who attended and didn't leave) gets the exact same amount of sympathy and concern for their punishment as the protesters gave to the people that were trapped inside an hotel while an increasingly angry mob outside threatened them for hours and then tried to burn the hotel down with people still inside.

 

As in all cases of offenders they have probably innocent family who have lost a loved one and despite the character of that person their loss is real..Once read an article about a member of Sutcliffe's family, brought it home of how they are affected.