Marlon King Interview

[MartinB]

What a total Pr*ck!
Interview

[Glyn_Wigley]

MartinB wrote:

What a total Pr*ck!

On what basis? Everybody's got a right to appeal, what's wrong with letting him have his? Without knowing or having seen what evidence he's got it's very hard to pass judgement on him but you seem to manage it.

[MartinB]

Maybe I know the brother of someone that he allegedly assaulted in London?  Surely things are bad when you bring a folder full of documents showing all of your previous convictions too!

King has convictions for 14 offences, dating from 1997.[27][28] He received fines, driving bans, community service sentences, a rehabilitation order and orders to pay compensation on convictions including: theft from a person and from a car, criminal damage, and attempting to obtain property by deception; fraudulent use of vehicle licence document, driving without insurance, speeding, drink driving; a wounding incident while playing amateur football, and two cases involving assault of young women rejecting his advances in the Soho area of London.


Marlon King: what sickens you most?
By Mike Norrish

What sickens you most about the case of Marlon King, the former Wigan footballer jailed for sexually assaulting of a young woman in a London nightclub?

Is it the hair-trigger transition from lecherous neck-stroking to gratuitous face-smashing? “Marlon King took one step backward and smashed her in the face with a clenched fist. He broke her nose with the blow. It was a completely gratuitous piece of violence against a slightly-built female,” said Roger Daniells-Smith, prosecuting.

Is it his conduct in court, where his plea of mistaken identity was dismissed by the jury? “You have shown not a hint of shame at your disgraceful and arrogant behaviour,” said judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith.

Is it the fact that King groped his victim while out celebrating his wife’s third pregnancy?

Is it the likelihood that King, as he boasted, is a multi-millionaire? And this despite an entirely unremarkable career with provincial clubs. One so unremarkable that, to his apparent surprise, young women in Soho nightclubs don’t ‘know who he is’.

Or is it the reaction of the Jamaican Football Federation, whose president, Captain Horace Burrell, said yesterday: “Marlon has been a very charismatic figure in the Reggae Boyz set-up and one who has given heart and soul for the Jamaican football cause; always giving of his best.* So, to see him faced with the harrowing prospect of time behind bars hurts me deeply, as I am sure it would anybody who has been associated with him.**”

(*King was banned for two years by the Jamaican Football Federation in 2006 for his repeated indiscipline. But that was under a Captain Burrell’s predecessor, so it obviously doesn’t count. **Anybody who has been associated with him? Does that include those whose ‘association’ with King led to them being picked up off a nightclub floor covered in blood?)

So what sickens us most? All of the above, I suspect.

[not on facebook]

he was found guilty in a court of law and i will stand by that.

but i have no problem with him trying to re open the case as he claims it was mistaken idenity,strange how that one allwys pops up.

if king is found to be not guilty then the police law courts
and whoever was involved in the guilty need to be brought
to justice and not washed under the carpet.

also if king is found guilty again then he does the time again
as at the moment he can claim mistaken idenity be found guilty
and nowt will change since he has done his time,just bad press.

[CusworthRovers]

Mr Wigley,


Do you work for the Howard League by any chance, or traced your roots too Elizabeth Fry?

[Barmby Rover]

King would be very difficult to defend, he needs to get a shock to the system, maybe the CPS ought to appeal too and get a custodial for the lad if he is guilty.

Elizabeth Fry was a great lady Cussy, and the Howard League does do a good job. We do need to take people out of society for a while, for their and our good, sometimes forever as in P.Sutcliffe, but the majority need to come back and have a chance at being a better person. That's the hard bit to achieve.