That’s fucked up.
Insanely sad for the family of Liam Morgan-Whittle to lose their son at only 22-years old.
Nobody should ever have to go through something like that.
He might as well have been let off with a warning.
I get that the two men had agreed to a punch-off.
That Liam volunteered to have Jason Thomas punch first.
Both of them were drunk.
Both had allegedly been doing coke.
Which is why in the hell Jason throw 2 punches?
Here’s what an article in People has to say about the events leading up to the incident.
His remorse is genuine.
“You were warned by someone present not to do that.
He could see the risk.
But you in your substance-befuddled state, could not.
“I’ll hit you first”… a “punch-for-punch” game.
Had Jason killed him with just one punch, then two-and-a-half years seems about right.
But that second punch should add 10 years to his sentence.
Liam asked for one punch.
He never signed up for the second one.
It was an all-time cheap shot that lead to someone dying.
The moral of the story is obviously to never agree to go punch-for-punch with another full-grown adult.
Jason must have somehow got himself a hell of a lawyer.
Or maybe the prosecutor just failed to bring up the second punch all together.
Which would be an insane miscarriage of justice on behalf of Liam.
