Originally Posted by
Loose rivets
I get the feeling that minute girl's demise, which will possibly be a lifelong burden, is because her deranged outbursts, the tone of imagined superiority, offended the listener more than posing any real threat. She should perhaps be committed to a specialist unit for skilled care, but two years in jail? What is the comparative harm done when you assess the real harm she caused? Lunging and scratching. Two years jail. Now think long and hard about the injustices you've read about in the last ten years. Grievous harm done, and scarcely a slap on the wrist.
You're missing one important point; this was just part of a series of offences. Just a couple of weeks before the Jet2 incident, she was involved in a drink-driving incident during which she committed, and was convicted for, assaults on members of the emergency services, as well as the drink driving offence. This history of other recent violent offences would most assuredly have been taken into account when she was sentenced for the violent incident on the Jet2 flight, and not in her favour.
The sentence was entirely justified, IMHO.