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Fowl behaviour sees six years’ jail for Victorian man
A household dispute over a the size of a takeaway chicken which resulted in a man being scalded with hot oil, has ended in a six-year jail term for the perpetrator of the crime.Mohammed Wahani,…
Lawyers Weekly
A household dispute over a the size of a takeaway chicken which resulted in a man being scalded with hot oil, has ended in a six-year jail term for the perpetrator of the crime.
A few angry words were exchanged over the size of the bird, and later, after the household had gone to bed, Wahani heated a saucepan of cooking oil and poured it over the sleeping Said, leaving him with third degree burns to his face and upper body.
In the Victorian Supreme Court, Justice Mark Weinberg found the Wahani's actions were cowardly, showing extreme cruelty for almost no reason, and sentenced him to a six-year jail term for intentionally causing serious injury, with a four-year minimum before being eligible for parole.
Folklaw counts this as one more reason to join the ranks of the vegetarians...
