I refer to the thread 'Right to Life Mob'.  I don't believe my intention  will be read enough with the slightly misleading title of the thread.


It concerns the Murder of 4 year old Bailey Constable.

This post is to plead with you to write to the Minister for Justice of NSW to have to law changed in regard to plea bargaining.

To summarise the case which highlights how our Justice system is being watered down. A man was sentenced  to 6 years imprisonment for murdering a defenceless little 4 year old boy.

I ask everyone who feels that the sentence handed down to this murderer is manifestly inadequate; to write to the following and demand changes to the law in regard to plea bargaining, in other words, justice, real justice for victims of crime.

Never underestimate your power to change the law. Every letter no matter how humble is powerful. Let's stop this travesty of Justice happening to victims like that poor little boy.

Write to.

The Hon. Gregory Eugene SMITH, SC MP Minister for Justice

EMAIL ADDRESS:

office@smith.minister.nsw.gov.au

IMPORTANT: Include your address in your submission.

I have already had an acknowledgement from the Ministry.



 
Six years for fatally bashing girlfriend's son

Date April 19, 2013

Elizabeth Fullerton
NSW Supreme Court
Nathan William Forrest
CPR




Killed by mother's boyfriend ... Bailey Constable. Photo: Supplied

A man who was like a "ticking time bomb" when he was high on drugs has been sentenced to at least six years for bashing his girlfriend's four-year-old son to death after injecting speed.

Nathan William Forrest pleaded not guilty to murder, but guilty to manslaughter of Bailey Constable, who died after suffering several blows on April 1, 2011, at a home near Warren, in the state's west.

The Crown accepted his plea.

In the NSW Supreme Court on Friday, Justice Elizabeth Fullerton sentenced Forrest to a maximum eight years in jail, with a non-parole period of six years.

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Justice Fullerton said Forrest had been in a position of authority that night, having bathed Bailey after he spent the day at home sick.

She said Bailey had been treated in hospital days earlier for a black eye and other injuries, but she could not positively find those wounds were inflicted by Forrest.

"On the night Bailey was fatally assaulted, he was particularly vulnerable and defenceless given his ill health and the fact he was recovering from injuries days earlier," she said.

Bailey's mother, Jessica Constable, previously told the court she was home alone with her son, and he was sick and had a urinary tract infection. She put him to bed before Forrest came home about 9.30pm.

She said she had seen Forrest inject himself with speed the night before, and he was "aggravated - anything could make him spark or crack" when he returned home that night.

Ms Constable said Bailey called out to say he had wet his bed, and Forrest said he would be "the father figure" and go upstairs to bathe him.

She said she heard three "loud bangs"' while Forrest was bathing the boy and a fourth as she was walking towards the bathroom.

After each bang, she said Forrest angrily yelled at the boy to "stop it".

When Ms Constable stood at the bathroom door she said Bailey "took a step towards me and fell to his knees", and as she was putting on his pyjamas the boy had glassy eyes.

Ms Constable said Forrest told her to go back downstairs, and she did out of a fear of being hit.

Minutes later, Forrest called out to her.

"Bailey was blue on the floor and had four red dots on his forehead. All I could do was scream out his name."

She said Forrest shook the child "vigorously" to try and get him to respond, before he conducted CPR.

Ms Constable said Forrest had asked her to tell people they put the child in the bath, and came back into the bathroom to find him face down in the water.

As the sentence was handed down, members of Bailey's family gasped in disbelief and Forrest angrily gestured as he was taken down to the cells.

The earliest date Forrest can be released


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/six-years-for-fatally-bashing-girlfriends-son-20130419-2i4hq.h







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