In case you have forgotten, Emery found a 15 year old tagging his property, chased him down the road with a knife, then stabbed him to death.
Emery claimed self-defence, but the jury didn't buy it, and he was convicted of manslaughter. In only getting manslaughter he was fortunate, and he was also lucky in the sentence he got: four years and three months.
But according to McVicar Emery should never have gone to jail.
"I didn't think he should have gone to jail," said Mr McVicar.McVicar is all over the place. He wants criminal offenders to be nailed, but when the offender is a middle aged white man (as was his mate David Garrett), it seems the rules are different.
"That young offender [Pihema] had been doing graffiti before and Emery had been becoming extremely frustrated with it.
It is interesting to speculate what Mr McVicar's response might have been had Emery been a Polynesian man in his 20s.
I seem to recall composing a comment on this on the other thread, but perhaps I didn't finish. Anyway, here's Garth previously on tagging and Emery:
ReplyDelete"... when a decent hard working citizen is facing a murder charge because of his frustration over this issue."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00052.htm
@Lyndon, you made a comment on the Losing It#1 post. Not sure if that's the one you meant.
ReplyDeleteI have come to the conclusion that all of the SST press releases are written by McVicar when he is in a rage, and that he posts them to the world immediately, while he is still raging. I was taught as a lawyer never to send anything by email or otherwise until you've calmed down and can think rationally. Pity McVicar can't do the same.
Yes.
ReplyDeleteDoes anything else need to be said?
Russell Brown's often remarked one big reason Garth gets all the copy is that he can be relied on to produce an opinion instantly. Which would tally nicely with your theory, Scott.
ReplyDeleteFWIW I had a memory of writing a second comment for the #1 post with the link above. I had been keeping a mental list of utter lunancy from McVicar and I'm starting to wish I'd written it down somewhere. For instance the bit where they took on Wayne Mapp an started blaming crime on welfare was a bit of a ride.