“Curry bashing” apparently is a form of amusement for some of the lowlife scum among the population. It means going out looking for Indian people to beat up.
Or, if you’re John Caratozzolo, and you can’t find an Indian, a Chinese will do just fine. Caratozzolo and his mates were out one night in January last year, when he suggested to them they go “curry bashing” because he needed a new mobile phone. However they ran into Dr Zhongjun Cao, who was on his way home from his job as a university lecturer. The group attacked him without warning, assaulting him "for pleasure" without even asking for his phone. One of the group dropped Dr Cao on his head during the attack and as he lay badly injured. Carotozzolo kicked the dying man in the head as a parting gift, laughing with his mates as he did it.
Soon afterwards, Caratozzolo and friends attacked another man, an Indian student and robbed him. He didn’t die, but he was injured seriously enough to spend time in hospital and to require 2 weeks of sick leave from his job.
Caratozzolo pleaded guilty to murder and two counts of robbery. The judge talked tough in sentencing him, but in the end gave him only 15 years, with a non-parole period of 10 years. Way too lenient in my view – Carotozzola is 21 and will be back out in the community in his early 30’s. It completely escapes me why scum such as him should be fortunate enough to see the outside of a prison cell before they are very old and infirm. 25 years should be the absolute minimum for a murder, especially when its random and completely unprovoked and done just for the hell of it.
A 16 year old was also charged in connection with Dr Cao’s murder.
Their families must be so proud of them!
I recall details of the offence at the time. What the lad did was not the way normal humans behave. Yes, lock him up for longer time. Life is twenty five years. Why did he not receive that?
I wonder what the split would have been on the two incidents? Say, if he’d been guilty of the academic’s murder, gotten 12, then “almost” killed someone else and gotten 3?
I agree completely. At 21 you know darn well that this kind of behavior is unacceptable. This kind of wolf-pack attack is even more dangerous than individual attacks, because nobody wants to go against the crowd and suggest that the behavior is wrong. As an aside, it is ESSENTIAL to know basic self defense!
This is like all the other racist things which come up. And also is akin to gay bashing. You may disagree with people and their lifestyle but you have no right to be violent against them for exercising their free will.
free will? Are you saying it’s an action to be Indian or gay?