Does the punishment fit the crime

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http://www.metro.co.uk/news/896211-...frican-prison-rape-that-left-him-hiv-positive

Sean Smith, a business partner of rugby star Gareth Thomas, said he was attacked up to eight times a day during his 19-month stay in St Alban’s jail after his arrest on suspicion of a multi-million-pound fraud.
The 42-year-old, was targeted in a cell he shared with 90 inmates in 2007.
‘They did it not just as part of gang dominance but in my case it was showing supremacy over a white man – I was the only one there,’ he said.
‘It went on for months – there wasn’t much left of me by then anyway... I was pretty much a skeleton.’
After nine months in the jail 30km (17 miles) out of Port Elizabeth, Mr Smith tested positive for HIV.
‘At that point I didn’t give a damn, I was broken, I was broken physically, mentally, I had nothing left I had no spirit at all so I didn’t care,’ he added.
After being granted bail, Mr Smith, from Glamorgan, South Wales, hid in the boot of a British High Commission car and crossed into Lesotho.
He has since been diagnosed with a lymphoma on the brain.
The Home Office was ‘unable to say’ if South Africa had made a request for his extradition.
 


Jesus. HIV as a punishment for fraud? Probably a little harsh but you could have ruined the lives of loads of people with his greed? If he didnt commit any fraud i'd say the rapings were uncalled for
 
I'd have imagined a jail in St Alban's to be a little more gentile ;)
 
This will be the new cultured free South Africa, not the oppressed apartheid era one, i wonder if Mandella was ever raped in prison or why crime shot up, more coloureds were persecuted and the government went from verging on the first world to third world for 95% of the population despite it being a rich country.
Then there's the fact it's the murder capital and rape capital of the world.
Apartheid wasn't right but is this?
 
Fraud = Infection of AIDS by rape......although the criminal may have inflicted pain on people who do not deserve it, this has to be a retribution that is undeserved, a good advert of not getting banged up abroad. SA seems like a fucked up country from what i have heard from white SA's, they seem like archaic *****.:neutral:
 
This will be the new cultured free South Africa, not the oppressed apartheid era one, i wonder if Mandella was ever raped in prison or why crime shot up, more coloureds were persecuted and the government went from verging on the first world to third world for 95% of the population despite it being a rich country.
Then there's the fact it's the murder capital and rape capital of the world.
Apartheid wasn't right but is this?

just wait till malema is in charge, even the cape town fans will be under threat.

Fraud = Infection of AIDS by rape......although the criminal may have inflicted pain on people who do not deserve it, this has to be a retribution that is undeserved, a good advert of not getting banged up abroad. SA seems like a fucked up country from what i have heard from white SA's, they seem like archaic *****.:neutral:

its only gonna get worse
 
just wait till malema is in charge, even the cape town fans will be under threat.



its only gonna get worse

Blatant racism still, that I was shocked by, one of the "lads" called them "woodheads", due to the sound of hitting them over the head with a cricket bat:oops::oops:, :oops:. Sorry state of affairs in SA in the past & present imho, i can not see any way out of it for a long time. The country has many wounds to heal.
 
This will be the new cultured free South Africa, not the oppressed apartheid era one, i wonder if Mandella was ever raped in prison or why crime shot up, more coloureds were persecuted and the government went from verging on the first world to third world for 95% of the population despite it being a rich country.
Then there's the fact it's the murder capital and rape capital of the world.
Apartheid wasn't right but is this?

This is a first. Bongo showing concern over the welfare of people banged up in jail. :lol:
 
Blatant racism still, that I was shocked by, one of the "lads" called them "woodheads", due to the sound of hitting them over the head with a cricket bat:oops::oops:, :oops:. Sorry state of affairs in SA in the past & present imho, i can not see any way out of it for a long time. The country has many wounds to heal.

of course its racism , but no one cares
 
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