Christine Lakinski

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Christine Lakinski was disabled. Spent all the 50 years of her life being bullied and chided for her disability. Coming home from a shopping errand she stumbled and fell, she was surrounded by young men who urinated on her, shed water on her, one of them went home to fetch some shaving foam to spread it on her while the others filmed the whole episode with mobiles. When after an hour an ambulance arrived she was dead. What to do with this? I don’t know: it easy to say these people should be awfully punished (one of them, but none of those with the mobiles, got three years in jail).

Horrible unregistered cruelties happen all the time in schools and barracks.

Perhaps the name of Chritine Lakinski should become the name of the streeet where this happened?

That's disgusting!

Three years?
Are you f*****g me?
Doesn't manslaughter usually get a longer sentence?
Either way, they should have all been charged with it.
I don't know s**t about the law, but I f*****g know that much.

During the episode in July, which lasted almost half an hour, none of the group (the urinator and the the mobile filmers) called an ambulance to help Ms Lakinski, who had collapsed while carrying shopping home and hit her head. Only 20 minutes later, when Anderson (the urinator and foam spreader) the phone-filmer and several others bystanders had dressed to go out to a nightclub, was a 999 call finally made. Paramedics were unable to revive Ms Lakinski.

from The Guardian

There's a 2-page discussion of this at News and Current Events. Remarkably a couple of people are suggesting that she might have deserved it or that the crowd mistook her for a passed out drunk.