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From the Daily Mailhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new...
'Feral' yob who killed trucker with a concrete missile jailed for just three years
8th February 2008
His face a picture of defiance as he gestures obscenely while smoking a cannabis joint, this is the feral yob who killed a lorry driver by dropping a 44lb breeze block off a bridge.
Dean Ingram, 15, was named by order of a judge yesterday as he was locked up for three years and four months after admitting manslaughter.
The product of a broken home, Ingram was left unsupervised to roam the streets into the early hours, revelling in being loutish and out of control.
Even after the late night spree of "aimless anti-social behaviour" which culminated in the death of Laurence McCourt, 68, when the breeze block smashed through his windscreen, Ingram laughed about the tragedy as he tried to chat up some girls, Northampton Crown Court heard.
On that night, July 27 last year, Ingram and two friends had stolen bicycles before arriving at the Doddington road bridge over the A45 dual carriageway near Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, at about 3.30am.
Prosecutor Nicholas Dean QC described the youths as 'feral'. He said one, Jamie Winter, also 15, urinated off the bridge then threw a breeze block on to the hard shoulder, leading Ingram to insult him for not aiming it at the road.
Winter then fetched another breeze block. Ingram took control and pushed it from the safety barrier on to the road at the moment Mr McCourt's lorry was passing underneath.
Winter and the third boy both shouted: "No Dean, don't, there's a lorry coming," but it was too late. Mr McCourt died almost instantly when the breeze block hit him in the chest. His 40ft lorry careered on for another half a mile before coming to rest against a crash barrier.
The youths ran from the bridge and at 8am came across a group of girls in Wellingborough who later told police that Ingram had said he had murdered the lorry driver and was laughing about it, the court heard.
Fergus Gow, defending Ingram, said: "The intention was to drop the block on to a lorry trailer to see it bounce off."
He said Ingram was "bitterly remorseful" about what happened.
Mr Gow said Ingram had been behaving in a feral way.
He said he was abandoned by his natural father at an early age, adding: "His mother suffered a mental breakdown and his stepfather has had to deal with the implications of that, meaning that Dean has, for the large part, been on his own."
For Winter, Steven Evans said that at the time the three youths involved had been living "outside of society".
Waiving an automatic order protecting the identity of Ingram and Winter, Judge Charles Wide said: "This is a very, very serious matter. I take into account your age but you were both old enough to know the difference between right and wrong."
Winter received a 12-month detention and training order after admitting causing danger to road users.
The third boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted spitting off the bridge, but later told the truth about what had happened and did not face any charges.
Mr McCourt, originally from Northern Ireland, was known as Len. He never married and lived alone in Sandwell, West Midlands. Last night his family described him in a statement as "a quiet, peaceful and very private man" who had continued to work part-time as a lorry driver after retiring.
Their statement said: "His tragic death has been a deep loss to us and left a big gap in our lives."
One of Mr McCourt's friends, retired engineer Jack Pettitt, 79, said: "He was a really decent guy. What those kids did to him was terrible. I've never been a "hang 'em and flog 'em" kind of person but things like this are just unforgivable."
Kate Gibbs, of the Road Haulage Association, called for tougher sentences to act as a deterrent to those who throw things off bridges. She said: "They have no concept of the consequences of their actions."
Oh the poor, unfortunate, misunderstood, deprived children....OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
g scum of the earthSheriff JWPepper said:
Ordinary Bloke said:
I honestly hope someone does something truly nasty to the little sh1ts...
Trouble is we'll have to investigate it.ETA:
Edited by Sheriff JWPepper on Saturday 9th February 23:25
Langweilig said:
Sheriff JWPepper said:
Ordinary Bloke said:
I honestly hope someone does something truly nasty to the little sh1ts...
Trouble is we'll have to investigate it.ETA:
Edited by Sheriff JWPepper on Saturday 9th February 23:25
Bing o said:
Charming
I could without a second thought smash his skull in and it wouldn't bother me at all
He is just human waste, cocky looking little shit, he knew what he was doing!Nanny state, broken britain
In the second pic he looks like a young Tony Bliar.
We have got it soooooo wrong in the UK. Shania Twain law looks like a good option by comparison, I'm sure he would get bits lopped off left right and centre. How can we spend so much effort chasing people who are late to send in tax returns while ******* like this get a couple of years of free colour TV and food?
We have got it soooooo wrong in the UK. Shania Twain law looks like a good option by comparison, I'm sure he would get bits lopped off left right and centre. How can we spend so much effort chasing people who are late to send in tax returns while ******* like this get a couple of years of free colour TV and food?
So the defending lawyer said that his intention was to aim a concrete block at a lorry and see it bounce off.
Let's see...a 44lb concrete block falling at a rate of 36ft per second per second is not likely to bounce off the thin steel skin or the glass of a lorry cab is it?
I think that lawyer should share a cell with that lowlife scumbag!
Let's see...a 44lb concrete block falling at a rate of 36ft per second per second is not likely to bounce off the thin steel skin or the glass of a lorry cab is it?I think that lawyer should share a cell with that lowlife scumbag!
Edited by Langweilig on Saturday 9th February 23:57
Edited by Langweilig on Sunday 10th February 00:08
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