WTF? 'Barbaric' eyeball gouger jailed

EpyonXero · 11-20-2009, 10:56 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/s...al/8370277.stm

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'Barbaric' eyeball gouger jailed
A man who gouged out a woman's eye and threw it from an eighth-floor balcony has been jailed for attempted murder.

Francis Murphy, 26, was convicted at the High Court in Edinburgh of using a metal coat hanger to prise out the eye of 27-year-old Natalie Farrell in May.

Judge John Morris QC told Murphy his crime was almost "medieval" in its barbarity and would make a right-thinking person "recoil in horror".

Murphy, from Dundee, was jailed for 12 years.

During the trial, Ms Farrell described the attack at her home in Dundee's Dalfield Court on 26 May this year.

She said she had ended her 10-year relationship with Murphy and had started a new partnership with another man.

However, Murphy turned up at her home, attacked her new partner, then grabbed her and said he was going to take out her eye with a metal hook.

She described how he tried at get his thumb and two fingers into her eye and pull it out.

She said she passed out when Murphy began throttling her.

“ You were convicted of crimes which are almost medieval in their barbarity, which would make any right-thinking person recoil in horror ”
Judge John Morris QC
When Ms Farrell regained consciousness her eye was on her cheek hanging by the optic nerve.

Murphy then grabbed it and threw it over an eighth-floor balcony.

Ms Farrell said she only learned that her eye had been pulled out when a friend found it and gave it to paramedics.

Her neighbour, Noel Pittham, told the court that he watched Murphy try to force Ms Farrell over the balcony as he attacked her.

The court also heard from Ms Farrell's friend, Jade Hall, 24, who recounted hitting Murphy with a brush to try to stop him from attacking her friend.

Artificial eye

She said that it was only when she descended the stairs of the block of flats that she and another man found Ms Farrell's eye lying in the street.

Murphy had claimed to police that he could remember nothing of the attack.

Solicitor advocate Iain Paterson, defending, blamed his client's actions on a combination of "tangled emotions", drink and drugs - and said Murphy was struggling to come to terms with what had happened.

"He is going to have to sit in a prison cell for a number of years and take stock of what he has done," said Mr Paterson.

Sentencing Murphy to 12 years, judge John Morris QC told him: "You were convicted of crimes which are almost medieval in their barbarity, which would make any right-thinking person recoil in horror."

Medics are still working with Ms Farrell, who was not in court to hear the sentence, to assess whether she can be given an artificial eye.

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Published: 2009/11/20 11:42:18 GMT

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Rider · 11-20-2009, 11:00 AM

Damn, that's fucked up. You can do eye transplants now cant you? They should give her one of his.

CasterTroy · 11-20-2009, 11:05 AM

WOW...next we'll see someones heart removed with a spoon...because it will hurt more you twit!

z06boy · 11-20-2009, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Rider

Damn, that's fucked up.

You've got that right...geez !!

Homeslice · 11-20-2009, 11:18 AM

This is why teenagers need to get experience dating multiple people.......so they don't go apeshit after someone breaks up with them.

Kaneman · 11-20-2009, 12:05 PM

Eye for an Eye? Anyone, anyone?

Rider · 11-20-2009, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Kaneman

Eye for an Eye? Anyone, anyone?

Werd!

z06boy · 11-20-2009, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by kaneman

eye for an eye? Anyone, anyone?

Absolutely !!

Adeptus_Minor · 11-20-2009, 01:05 PM

About time they got Moe..

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Kaneman AMA Supersport Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Odessa, TX Moto: 2000 Honda CBR1100XX Blackbird Posts: 4,931	Eye for an Eye? Anyone, anyone? __________________ 1982 Honda XR80 - blown motor, 1993 Kawasaki ZX6D - sold, 2001 Suzuki Bandit 1200S - sold, 1984 Honda Magna - sold, 2001 Kawasaki ZRX1200R - blown motor, 2007 Suzuki DL1000 V-Strom - totalled, 2003 Yamaha FZ1 - sold, 1994 Honda Magna - sold, 2001 Honda CBR600F4i - sold, 1998 Suzuki DR350 - stolen, 1989 Honda Super Magna - sold, 2007 Yamaha Stratoliner, 2000 Honda CBR 1100XX Blackbird

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11-20-2009, 11:00 AM	#2
Rider Moto GP Star Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 12,156	Damn, that's fucked up. You can do eye transplants now cant you? They should give her one of his.

11-20-2009, 11:18 AM	#5
Homeslice Elitist Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: SF Bay Area Moto: Gix 750 Posts: 11,351	This is why teenagers need to get experience dating multiple people.......so they don't go apeshit after someone breaks up with them.