With UK homicides running at over 900 a year, it's worth considering that last Thurday's attacks killed about as many people as would be killed over an average three week period.
Fortunately we have people like Judge Leeona Dorrian QC to protect us.
When 58-year old grandmother Ann Whittle went to the local car boot last year, parking spaces were few and far between. They had to wait for someone to leave before Mrs Whittle could stand in the space to 'reserve' it while her husband moved the car in.
Unfortunately 34-year-old Carol McMillan and her 'partner' had also spotted the empty space. McMillan got out of their 4x4 and stood in the same place.
"Mrs Whittle made a comment to the effect that she and her husband were there first. Carol McMillan turned and grabbed her by the hair and then kicked her on the face three times."
McMillan's 'partner' joined in, leaving his car to assault Mr Whittle.
“I was getting beaten until another man pulled him off me. Then I looked over and saw Ann slumped beside a fence at the side of the road.
“She was purple with bruises and I couldn’t find her pulse so I yelled, ‘You’ve killed my wife’. But he just sneered, ‘That’ll be right’ and walked away.”
Mrs Whittle had collapsed and died of a heart attack.
Her killer's sentence ? Three years probation and 240 hours community service.
Other press coverage here, here, here and here.
The strange thing is that Judge Dorrington is quite happy to jail someone for driving while drunk, but not for kicking a woman to death.
Elsewhere in Scotland, people find that small babies or people in wheelchairs are an easy target.
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