'He killed girlfriend due to emotional pain', court told

[ynot slow]

About a month per stab/cut,not bad eh.Imagine if he stabbed her once.

[GDOBSSOR]

Here's the NZ Herald article.

Given the details available, what's all y'all's take on the apparent defence of reduced responsibility due to emotional pain making him lose self-control?

Me, I'd acquit him. There are quite a few bitches out there that need a good stabbing, and reading between the lines, I'd say he got himself one.

Chances are he's saved dozens of other guys a broken heart in the future.

Now, maybe he shouldn't get a medal, exactly, but I'd certainly say it's not a case of cold-blooded murder.

So.

Can emotional pain ever form justifiable provocation for murder?

Does cruelly driving someone to that state of mind make a murder victim someone that the world is better off without?

Your thoughts please, ladies and gentlemen.

This post is years old but you worry me severely.
This is either a joke or serious.
If it's a sick joke, it's NOT FUNNY, Sophie Elliott was a young lady who didn't deserve at all to be murdered and her family devastated. Please refrain from being an idiot in future.
If you're serious... Then you are a sociopath. He got his feelings hurt, so she deserved to die? People get hurt everyday. I have been sexually assaulted. It doesn't give me the right to go to the house of the boy who did it and stab him two hundred times. My first boyfriend dumped me by text and strung me along for MONTHS. He'll do it again. If I took a knife to university and went to his class and stabbed him 200 times, I would deserve everything I got.
Clayton Weatherston is a dangerous man who should be kept away from society at all costs. Just watching him on tv made me choke on my drink.

[jrandom]

If it's a sick joke, it's NOT FUNNY

Best you not do any laughing then.

[GDOBSSOR]

You might have guessed I would be a starter for this obviously trolling thread.

How any Mother could not have gathered something was wrong before her daughter received 216 stab wounds is beyond me, but I digress.

She heard screaming, ran up stairs and he pushed her out of the room and locked the door in her face.

[nodrog:Me]

This post is years old but you worry me severely.
This is either a joke or serious.
If it's a sick joke, it's NOT FUNNY, Sophie Elliott was a young lady who didn't deserve at all to be murdered and her family devastated. Please refrain from being an idiot in future.
If you're serious... Then you are a sociopath. He got his feelings hurt, so she deserved to die? People get hurt everyday. I have been sexually assaulted. It doesn't give me the right to go to the house of the boy who did it and stab him two hundred times. My first boyfriend dumped me by text and strung me along for MONTHS. He'll do it again. If I took a knife to university and went to his class and stabbed him 200 times, I would deserve everything I got.
Clayton Weatherston is a dangerous man who should be kept away from society at all costs. Just watching him on tv made me choke on my drink.

Does you user name stand for Gay Dumb Old Bitch Should Stay On Ritalin?

[Jantar]

This thread had died and doesn't deserve to be ressurected. However as you were not a member of this site when it was posted you do have the right to comment on it.

Personally I saw the OP's post as nothing more than a troll, so I ignored it.

As an aside, I should mention that I have met Sophie's father when he was guest speaker at a social function I attended. There is a lot of information that was never made public, and I believe that if we had the death penalty in New Zealand then Weatherspoon would be a prime candidate.

[jrandom]

As an aside, I should mention that I have met Sophie's father when he was guest speaker at a social function I attended.

Ah, an unbiased data source. Lucky you.

[GDOBSSOR]

You know that he has admitted killing her, right?

What about Arthur Allan Thomas?

[Jantar]

Ah, an unbiased data source. Lucky you.

Certainly NOT unbiased. But factual information from a biased source is far better than inferred information from an unbiassed source.

[jrandom]

Certainly NOT unbiased. But factual information from a biased source is far better than inferred information from an unbiassed source.

The point I was making is that 'factual information' itself may well be somewhat blurry, when presented by the father of a murdered girl.

[blue rider]

The point I was making is that 'factual information' itself may well be somewhat blurry, when presented by the father of a murdered girl.

you don't have a point.., and quite frankly i doubt you ever had one when posting this thread.
You just come across as a wee little piss le vent, who was not loved by Mama and now has difficulties with the Ladies.

No one absolutly no one deserves to die like this. No one deserves to be butchered. No one deserves to be mutilitated.

emotional pain.....Yeah sure TUI.

[jrandom]

you don't have a point.., and quite frankly i doubt you ever had one when posting this thread.

Mm, no, I did. You're letting your emotion cloud your ability to empathise. If you're dead-set against the idea of girls being stabbed to death, good on ya mate - but you'll never be able to effectively act against something you don't understand.

Not that you're going to act against it, though, are you, Miss Blue Rider? Sitting around and agreeing that terrible things are terrible has never been known to achieve much, y'know.

... not loved by Mama and now has difficulties with the Ladies.

Or perhaps mama loved me a little too well, and the ladies have been too easy?

No one deserves to be butchered.

Since that's entirely subjective, I can't argue with it.

[SMOKEU]

Gotta love it when the feminists come out.

[Nova.]

such a shame too, she was smoking hot.

[PrincessBandit]

How about we let this thread go back to where it was before the major dredge.
See the mischief you can still cause all these years on Dan? You sure know how to set 'em up doncha!